ransomwatch

 a ransomware-group observatory。

ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd

missing a group ? try the issue template

looking for historical data? check ransomwatch-history

this repository leverages github actions & pages to visit, parse & report on monitored hosts in near-realtime.

curl -sL ransomwhat.telemetry.ltd/posts | jq
curl -sL ransomwhat.telemetry.ltd/groups | jq

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content within ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd, posts.json, groups.json and 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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technicals

the torproxy from my gotham registry is introduced into the github actions workflow as a service container to allow onion routing within ransomwatch.yml

where possible psf/requests is used to fetch source html. if a javascript engine is required to render the dom mozilla/geckodriver and seleniumhq/selenium are invoked.

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

any 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.

groups.json contains hosts, nodes, relays and mirrors for a tracked group or actor

posts.json contains parsed posts, noted by their discovery time and accountable group

analysis tools

all rendered source HTML is stored within ransomwatch/tree/main/source - change tracking and revision history of these blogs is made possible with git

screenshotter.py

a script to generate high-resolution screenshots of all online hosts within groups.json

srcanalyser.py

a beautifulsoup script to fetch emails, internal and external links from HTML within source/

cli operations

fetching sites requires a local tor circuit on tcp://9050 - establish one with;

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

group management

manage the groups within groups.json

add new location (group or additional mirror)

./ransomwatch.py add --name acmecorp --location abcdefg.onion

scraping

./ransomwatch.py scrape

parsing

iterate files within the source/ directory and contribute findings to posts.json

for a crude health-check across all parsers, use assets/parsers.sh

./ransomwatch.py parse

from https://github.com/joshhighet/ransomwatch