HELLOKITTY

Description

(FireEye) HELLOKITTY ransomware—used to target Polish video game developer CD Projekt Red—is reportedly built from DEATHRANSOM. HELLOKITTY is named after a mutex named ‘HELLOKITTYMutex,’ used when the malware executable is launched

Names

Name
HELLOKITTY
HelloKitty
KittyCrypt

Category

Malware

Type

• Ransomware
• Big Game Hunting

Information

• https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/04/unc2447-sombrat-and-fivehands-ransomware-sophisticated-financial-threat.html
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/HELLOKITTY-ransomware-behind-cd-projekt-red-cyberattack-data-theft/
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hellokitty-ransomware-is-targeting-vulnerable-sonicwall-devices/
• https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2021/211029.pdf
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hellokitty-ransomware-source-code-leaked-on-hacking-forum/
• https://blog.barracuda.com/2024/04/24/hellokitty—hellogookie—hello—lockbit

Mitre Attack

• https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0617/

Malpedia

• https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hellokitty
• https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/elf.hellokitty

Playbook

• https://pan-unit42.github.io/playbook_viewer/?pb=hellokitty-ransomware

Other Information

Uuid

fed08e25-fd63-4def-93d4-0fa8555fc680

Last Card Change

2024-06-18