ransomwatch 👀 🦅

ransomwatch trails the extortion sites used by ransomware groups and surfaces an aggregated feed of claims

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⚠️

content within ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd, posts.json, groups.json alongside the docs/ & source/ directories is dynamically generated based on hosting choices of real-world threat actors in near-real-time.

whilst sanitisation efforts have been taken, by viewing or accessing ransomwatch you acknowledge you are doing so at your own risk

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key outputs

web:// ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd

json:// ransomwhat.telemetry.ltd/posts

json:// ransomwhat.telemetry.ltd/groups

• groups.json contains hosts, nodes, relays and mirrors for a tracked group or actor
• posts.json contains extracted posts, noted by their discovery time and accountable group

technicals

this is a live repository which leverages a combination of github actions and a service container to visit, parse & report on monitored hosts in near-realtime in a self-contained manor.

content fetching is done with psf/requests - if rendering is required mozilla/geckodriver and seleniumhq/selenium are leveraged.

the frontend is ultimatley markdown, generated with markdown.py and served with docsifyjs/docsify thanks to pages.github.com

graphs or visualisations are generated with plotting.py with the help of matplotlib/matplotlib

post indexing is done with a mix of grep, awk and sed within parsers.py - it's brittle and like any ̴̭́H̶̤̓T̸̙̅M̶͇̾L̷͑ͅ ̴̙̏p̸̡͆a̷̛̦r̵̬̿s̴̙͛ĩ̴̺n̸̔͜g̸̘̈, has a limited lifetime.

tools

rendered HTML for each page is viewable within the source directory

• screenshotter.py a playwright script to generate high-resolution screenshots of online hosts
• srcanalyser.py a basic extractor for emails, internal and external links found within page source
• browse-hosts.sh a simple cURL based iterator for sweeping URL checks
• sources.zsh an aggregator of various locations that surface new groups for ransomwatch
• uptimekuma-importer.py a script to convert the group data into a uptime-kuma configuration file
• parsers.sh a health-check script that provides details on parsers that are returning no fields

cli operations

fetching hidden services requires a tor circuit! establish one with;

docker run -p9050:9050 ghcr.io/joshhighet/torsocc:latest

➜  ransomwatch git:(main) ✗ ./ransomwatch.py --help

       _______________                        |*\_/*|________
      |  ___________  |                      ||_/-\_|______  |
      | |           | |                      | |           | |
      | |   0   0   | |                      | |   0   0   | |
      | |     -     | |                      | |     -     | |
      | |   \___/   | |                      | |   \___/   | |
      | |___     ___| |                      | |___________| |
      |_____|\_/|_____|                      |_______________|
        _|__|/ \|_|_.............💔.............._|________|_
       / ********** \                          / ********** \
     /  ************  \     ransomwhat?      /  ************  \
    --------------------                    --------------------

usage: ransomwatch.py [-h] [--name NAME] [--location LOCATION]
                      [--append APPEND]
                      {add,append,scrape,parse,list,markdown,check}

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positional arguments:
  {add,append,scrape,parse,list,markdown,check}
                        operation to execute

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --name NAME           provider name
  --location LOCATION   onionsite fqdn
  --append APPEND       add onionsite fqdn to existing record

newly indexed posts can be sent to discord by providing a DISCORD_WEBHOOK var when running parse.

DISCORD_WEBHOOK=https://discord.com/api/webhooks/xxxxx/xxx ./ransomwatch.py parse

datamap

erDiagram
    groups_json ||--|{ group : contains
    group {
        string name "group name"
        boolean captcha "captcha status"
        boolean parser "parser status"
        boolean javascript_render "javascript status"
        string meta "freeform text"
        string url "notable articles and references"
    }
    group ||--|{ locations : has
    locations {
        string fqdn "fully qualified domain name"
        string title "page title"
        int version "hidden service version"
        string slug "full URI"
        boolean available "availability status"
        datetime updated "timestamp of last update"
        datetime lastscrape "timestamp of last scrape"
        boolean enabled "status"
    }
    group ||--|{ post : references
    post {
        string post_title "post title"
        string group_name "associated group name"
        datetime discovered "timestamp of discovery"
    }

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ransomwatch is licensed under unlicense.org