Ransomware Research

About Charmant

Charmant

Charmant was first discovered in December 2019 in enterprise cloud environments.

Name Charmant
First Seen December 2019

Genealogy

To better understand Charmant, we can trace it’s origins. Below is a snapshot of Charmant’s genealogy.

GarrantyDecrypt » Charmant
Targeting

Behavior of Charmant

Charmant is known to target specific file types. Below are all known file types that Charmant is known to infect.

In some cases, ransomware will update the modified date, when it encrypts files. Charmant updates the last modified date of the file it targets.

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Characteristics of Charmant

Here are some of the unique characteristics that are helpful to know about Charmant.

Suffixes

Some ransomware will change or append a suffix to the end of the file after they are encrypted, including changing the extension of a file. Here are some of the possible suffixes that Charmant ransomware is known to change.

Suffixes.charmant

Ransomware Notes

Not all ransomware leaves a note. However, some ransomware leaves the infected party instructions on what the user should do to get rid of the ransomware, or satisfy the ransom. This often involves transferring money, often bitcoin or another cryptocurrency to a designated wallet.

Below are the type(s) of notes, content, and typical locations where Elastio has found ransom notes from Charmant.

Typefile
File Name#RECOVERY#.txt
LocationEveryFolder

Executables

These are the names of the executables that contain the undetonated ransomware payload for Charmant.

Executablessvchost.exe

External Pages

Ransomware often links to external pages such as payment pages, telegram contacts, etc. Below are some of the URLs Elastio has found to be associated with Charmant.

External Pages
  • mailto:charmant@firemail.cc
  • jabber:charmant@jabb.im
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