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Names	Snatch
Category	Malware
Type	Ransomware
Description	Snatch is a ransomware which infects victims by rebooting the PC into Safe Mode. Most of the existing security protections do not run in Safe Mode so that it the malware can act without expected countermeasures and it can encrypt as many files as it finds. It uses common packers such as UPX to hide its payload.
Information	<https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2019/12/09/snatch-ransomware-reboots-pcs-into-safe-mode-to-bypass-protection/>
Malpedia	<https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.snatch>

Last change to this tool card: 23 April 2020

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Changed	Name	Country	Observed
APT groups
	TA505, Graceful Spider, Gold Evergreen		2006-Nov 2022
Other groups
	TA554	[Unknown]	2017

2 groups listed (1 APT, 1 other, 0 unknown)

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