Ramp

MITRE ATT&CK does not currently catalogue Ramp, so this is our assessment of the techniques it uses, drawn from public reporting. The techniques themselves, and every "what that means" definition below, come from MITRE ATT&CK v19.2. Confidence: medium. Treat it as orientation, not attribution.

1. T1059.001 PowerShell Execution

   What they do: ramp uses PowerShell scripts to execute malicious commands and stage ransomware payloads across compromised hosts.

   What that means: Adversaries may abuse PowerShell commands and scripts for execution.

2. T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder PersistencePrivilege Escalation

   What they do: ramp leverages Registry Run Keys to ensure ransomware execution upon system or user logon.

   What that means: Adversaries may achieve persistence by adding a program to a startup folder or referencing it with a Registry run key.

3. T1685 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Impairment

   What they do: ramp disables security tools and monitoring utilities to hinder incident response and persistence evasion.

   What that means: Adversaries may disable, degrade, or tamper with security tools or applications (e.g., endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, intrusion detection systems (IDS), antivirus, logging agents, sensors, etc.) to impair or reduce visibility of defensive capabilities.

4. T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

   What they do: ramp deletes Volume Shadow Copies and backup artifacts via command-line tools to prevent data recovery.

   What that means: Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.

5. T1083 File and Directory Discovery Discovery

   What they do: ramp employs file and directory discovery to identify sensitive data and critical system paths for targeting.

   What that means: Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file system.

6. T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares Lateral Movement

   What they do: ramp moves laterally through SMB and Windows Admin Shares to infect additional networked systems.

   What that means: Adversaries may use Valid Accounts to interact with a remote network share using Server Message Block (SMB).

7. T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact Impact

   What they do: ramp encrypts victim files using strong symmetric encryption to maximize impact and ransom demand leverage.

   What that means: Adversaries may encrypt data on target systems or on large numbers of systems in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources.

8. T1490 Inhibit System Recovery Impact

   What they do: ramp invokes system recovery inhibition commands to block restore processes and deepen operational impact.

   What that means: Adversaries may delete or remove built-in data and turn off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system to prevent recovery.