FIN7 — Ransomware Profile
FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been active since 2013. FIN7 has targeted the retail, restaurant, hospitality, software, consulting, financial services, medical equipment, cloud services, media, food and beverage, transportation, pharmaceutical, and utilities industries in the United States. A portion of FIN7 was operated out of a front company called Combi Security and often used point-of-sale malware for targeting efforts. Since 2020, FIN7 shifted operations to big game hunting (BGH), including use of REvil ransomware and their own Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Darkside. FIN7 may be linked to the Carbanak Group, but multiple threat groups have been observed using Carbanak, leading these groups to be tracked separately.Also tracked as
GOLD NIAGARA, ITG14, Carbon Spider, ELBRUS, Sangria Tempest
Tools & malware
- AdFind Network Reconnaissance
- BOOSTWRITE Loader
- Carbanak Banking Trojan
- Cobalt Strike Adversary Simulation
- CrackMapExec Network Toolkit
- GRIFFON Backdoor
- HALFBAKED Backdoor
- JSS Loader Loader
- Lizar Backdoor
- Maze Ransomware
- Mimikatz Credential Harvesting
- Pillowmint POS Malware
- POWERSOURCE Backdoor
- PowerSploit Post-Exploitation Framework
- RDFSNIFFER Backdoor
- REvil Ransomware
- SQLRat Remote Access Trojan
- TEXTMATE Backdoor
Vendor research
- GOLD NIAGARA CTU
- How Microsoft names threat actors Microsoft
- From pentest to APT attack: cybercriminal group FIN7 disguises its malware as an ethical hacker’s toolkit BiZone Lizar
- FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK FireEye
- On the Hunt for FIN7: Pursuing an Enigmatic and Evasive Global Criminal Operation FireEye
- CTU. (n.d.). GOLD NIAGARA Secureworks
- To SDB, Or Not To SDB: FIN7 Leveraging Shim Databases for Persistence FireEye
- FIN7 Power Hour: Adversary Archaeology and the Evolution of FIN7 Mandiant
- CARBON SPIDER Embraces Big Game Hunting, Part 1 Crowdstrike
- Ransomware as a service: Understanding the cybercrime gig economy and how to protect yourself Microsoft
- FIN7 Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Personnel Involved in SEC Filings FireEye
- Ransomware 2020: Attack Trends Affecting Organizations Worldwide IBM
- FIN7 Takes Another Bite at the Restaurant Industry Morphisec
- Behind the CARBANAK Backdoor FireEye