Sugar

MITRE ATT&CK does not currently catalogue Sugar, 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: sugar uses PowerShell to execute malicious payloads and stage ransomware operations on compromised hosts.

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

2. T1059.003 Windows Command Shell Execution

   What they do: sugar leverages Windows Command Shell (cmd.exe) to run commands for file encryption and system manipulation.

   What that means: Adversaries may abuse the Windows command shell for execution.

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

   What they do: sugar modifies registry run keys to ensure ransomware execution upon system reboot or user login.

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

4. T1685 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Impairment

   What they do: sugar disables security tools like antivirus software and monitoring agents to evade detection during attacks.

   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.

5. T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

   What they do: sugar deletes Volume Shadow Copies and backup files via vssadmin to prevent data restoration.

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

6. T1110 Brute Force Credential Access

   What they do: sugar brute-forces local accounts to gain initial access and escalate privileges on victim systems.

   What that means: Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.

7. T1135 Network Share Discovery Discovery

   What they do: sugar performs network share discovery to identify victim file shares and target directories for encryption.

   What that means: Adversaries may look for folders and drives shared on remote systems as a means of identifying sources of information to gather as a precursor for Collection and to identify potential systems of interest for Lateral Movement.

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

   What they do: sugar uses SMB/Windows Admin Shares for lateral movement across networked victim machines.

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

9. T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel Exfiltration

   What they do: sugar exfiltrates stolen victim data over C2 channels before deploying encryption.

   What that means: Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an existing command and control channel.

10. T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact Impact

    What they do: sugar encrypts victim files using strong symmetric cryptography to fulfill its ransomware impact.

    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.

11. T1489 Service Stop Impact

    What they do: sugar stops critical Windows services and processes to disrupt victim operations during encryption.

    What that means: Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users.

12. T1490 Inhibit System Recovery Impact

    What they do: sugar calls system recovery mechanisms to inhibit recovery options like backups and restore points.

    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.

The note this group leaves on a compromised machine. Click a filename to read it.

[+] Whats Happen? [+]
 
 
Your files are encrypted, and currently unavailable. You can check it: all files on your system has extension .encoded01.
By the way, everything is possible to recover (restore), but you need to follow our instructions. Otherwise, you cant
return your data (NEVER).
 
[+] What guarantees? [+]
 
Its just a business. We absolutely do not care about you and your deals, except getting benefits. If we do not do our
work and liabilities - nobody will not cooperate with us. Its not in our interests.
To check the ability of returning files, You should go to our website. There you can decrypt 1-5 files for free. That
is
our guarantee.
If you will not cooperate with our service - for us, its does not matter. But you will lose your time and data, cause
just we have the private key. In practise - time is much more valuable than money.
 
[+] How to get access on website? [+]
 
You can open our site by the shortcut "SUPPORT (TOR_BROWSER)" created on the desktop.
 
Also as the second option you can install the tor browser:
    a) Download and install TOR browser from this site: https://torproject.org/
    b) Open our website. Full link will be provided below.
 
 
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!!! DANGER !!!
 
DONT try to change files by yourself, DONT use any third party software for restoring your data or antivirus solutions
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its may entail damge of the private key and, as result, The Loss all data.
!!! !!! !!!
ONE MORE TIME: Its in your interests to get your files back. From our side, we (the best specialists) make everything
for restoring, but please should not interfere.
!!! !!! !!!
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