Safepay

MITRE ATT&CK does not currently catalogue Safepay, 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: safepay executes PowerShell scripts to run payload logic, disable defenses, and stage ransomware components.

   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: safepay uses registry run keys and startup folders to maintain persistence after reboot.

   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: safepay disables or modifies security tools such as antivirus and monitoring agents to prevent detection and cleanup.

   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. T1688 Safe Mode Boot Defense Impairment

   What they do: safepay attempts safe mode boot manipulation to disrupt recovery workflows and evade host-based defenses.

   What that means: Adversaries may abuse Windows safe mode to disable endpoint defenses.

5. T1027.016 Junk Code Insertion Stealth

   What they do: safepay inserts junk code into binaries to evade static analysis and signature-based detection.

   What that means: Adversaries may use junk code / dead code to obfuscate a malware’s functionality.

6. T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

   What they do: safepay deletes Volume Shadow Copies and temporary files to eliminate recovery options and reduce forensic traces.

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

7. T1135 Network Share Discovery Discovery

   What they do: safepay uses network share discovery to locate victim file shares and staging directories for encryption targets.

   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: safepay moves laterally through SMB/Windows Admin Shares to encrypt additional systems across the network.

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

9. T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact Impact

   What they do: safepay encrypts victim files and backups using its ransomware payload to maximize impact and extortion 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.

10. T1491.001 Internal Defacement Impact

    What they do: safepay performs internal defacement by replacing or corrupting victim files to demonstrate impact and pressure victims.

    What that means: An adversary may deface systems internal to an organization in an attempt to intimidate or mislead users, thus discrediting the integrity of the systems.

Software Safepay has been seen using, grouped by what it is used for. Legitimate administration tools appear here because these actors routinely abuse them — presence in this list is not itself malicious.

Tool data from Ransomware Tool Matrix by BushidoUK, licensed CC BY 4.0. Grouped by purpose and matched to this group by Breach House.

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

Greetings! Your corporate network was attacked by SafePay team.

Your IT specialists made a number of mistakes in setting up the security of your corporate network, so we were able to spend quite a long period of time in it and compromise you.

It was the misconfiguration of your network that allowed our experts to attack you, so treat this situation as simply as a paid training session for your system administrators.

We ve spent the time analyzing your data, including all the sensitive and confidential information. As a result, all files of importance have been encrypted and the ones of most interest to us have been stolen and are now stored on a secure server for further exploitation and publication on the Web with an open access.

Now we are in possession of your files such as: financial statements, intellectual property, accounting records, lawsuits and complaints, personnel and customer files, as well as files containing information on bank details, transactions and other internal documentation.

Furthermore we successfully blocked most of the servers that are of vital importance to you, however upon reaching an agreement, we will unlock them as soon as possible and your employees will be able to resume their daily duties.

We are suggesting a mutually beneficial solution to that issue. You submit a payment to us and we keep the fact that your network has been compromised a secret, delete all your data and provide you with the key to decrypt all your data. WE ARE THE ONES WHO CAN CORRECTLY DECRYPT YOUR DATA AND RESTORE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN A SHORT TIME. DO NOT TRY TO DECRYPT YOUR FILES YOURSELF, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS, YOU WILL ONLY DAMAGE THEM AND WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESTORE THEM.

In the event of an agreement, our reputation is a guarantee that all conditions will be fulfilled. No one will ever negotiate with us later on if we don't fulfill our part and we recognise that clearly! We are not a politically motivated group and want nothing more than money. Provided you pay, we will honour all the terms we agreed to during the negotiation process.

In order to contact us, please use chat below, you have 10 days to contact us, after this time a blog post will be made with a timer for 3 days before the data is published and you will no longer be able to contact us.


To contact us follow the instructions:


Install and run  Tor Browser  from https://www.torproject.org/download/


Go to http://dgcg5ncjab6scb7fnk7gx5php4lbpxjy2jjnu3apnkxyippqf6yhw3ad.onion


Reserve Link: http://oxly5vxvvhi5fv5vsvj3kvlqeprbijitycqisylaxzf324bn7e4qr2ad.onion


Log in with ID: [snip]

Contact and wait for a reply, we guarantee that we will reply as soon as possible, and we will explain everything to you once again in more detail.


Our blog:


http://j3dp6okmaklajrsk6zljl5sfa2vpui7j2w6cwmhmmqhab6frdfbphhid.onion


http://nz4z6ruzcekriti5cjjiiylzvrmysyqwibxztk6voem4trtx7gstpjid.onion


Our TON blog:

tonsite://safepay.ton


You can connect through your Telegramm account.

Greetings! Your corporate network was attacked by SafePay team.
Your IT specialists made a number of mistakes in setting up the security of your corporate network, so we were able to spend quite a long period of time in it and compromise you.
It was the misconfiguration of your network that allowed our experts to attack you, so treat this situation as simply as a paid training session for your system administrators.
We ve spent the time analyzing your data, including all the sensitive and confidential information. As a result, all files of importance have been encrypted and the ones of most interest to us have been stolen and are now stored on a secure server for further exploitation and publication on the Web with an open access.
Now we are in possession of your files such as: financial statements, intellectual property, accounting records, lawsuits and complaints, personnel and customer files, as well as files containing information on bank details, transactions and other internal documentation.
Furthermore we successfully blocked most of the servers that are of vital importance to you, however upon reaching an agreement, we will unlock them as soon as possible and your employees will be able to resume their daily duties.
We are suggesting a mutually beneficial solution to that issue. You submit a payment to us and we keep the fact that your network has been compromised a secret, delete all your data and provide you with the key to decrypt all your data. WE ARE THE ONES WHO CAN CORRECTLY DECRYPT YOUR DATA AND RESTORE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN A SHORT TIME. DO NOT TRY TO DECRYPT YOUR FILES YOURSELF, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS, YOU WILL ONLY DAMAGE THEM AND WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESTORE THEM.
In the event of an agreement, our reputation is a guarantee that all conditions will be fulfilled. No one will ever negotiate with us later on if we don't fulfill our part and we recognise that clearly! We are not a politically motivated group and want nothing more than money. Provided you pay, we will honour all the terms we agreed to during the negotiation process.
In order to contact us, please use chat below, you have 10 days to contact us, after this time a blog post will be made with a timer for 3 days before the data is published and you will no longer be able to contact us.

To contact us follow the instructions:

Install and run  Tor Browser  from https://www.torproject.org/download/

Go to http://dgcg5ncjab6scb7fnk7gx5php4lbpxjy2jjnu3apnkxyippqf6yhw3ad.onion

Reserve Link: http://oxly5vxvvhi5fv5vsvj3kvlqeprbijitycqisylaxzf324bn7e4qr2ad.onion

Log in with ID: [snip]
Contact and wait for a reply, we guarantee that we will reply as soon as possible, and we will explain everything to you once again in more detail.

Our blog:

http://j3dp6okmaklajrsk6zljl5sfa2vpui7j2w6cwmhmmqhab6frdfbphhid.onion

http://nz4z6ruzcekriti5cjjiiylzvrmysyqwibxztk6voem4trtx7gstpjid.onion

Our TON blog:
tonsite://safepay.ton

You can connect through your Telegramm account.

Ransom-note text from RansomLook, licensed CC BY 4.0.