GOLD SOUTHFIELD

Overview

GOLD SOUTHFIELD is a financially motivated threat group active since at least 2018 that operates the REvil Ransomware-as-a Service (RaaS). GOLD SOUTHFIELD provides backend infrastructure for affiliates recruited on underground forums to perpetrate high value deployments. By early 2020, GOLD SOUTHFIELD started capitalizing on the new trend of stealing data and further extorting the victim to pay for their data to not get publicly leaked.

Naming & attribution

GOLD SOUTHFIELD is tracked under 2 names across the industry. It uses 9 documented ATT&CK techniques — more than 26% of the 174 groups tracked here. Activity attributed since at least 2018.

Closest groups by technique overlap

Computed from shared ATT&CK techniques. Overlap is not attribution — distinct actors converge on the same tradecraft — but a high share is a useful pivot.

• Play — 4 shared techniques (13% overlap)
• Sea Turtle — 4 shared techniques (13% overlap)
• Akira — 3 shared techniques (13% overlap)
• Cobalt Group — 4 shared techniques (10% overlap)
• INC Ransom — 3 shared techniques (10% overlap)
• Sandworm Team Russia — 7 shared techniques (9% overlap)

Capabilities

• Supply-chain compromise — ATT&CK T1195.002
• Exploitation of public-facing / client applications — ATT&CK T1190

TTPs — 9 techniques across 6 tactics

Tools & malware (2)

ConnectWise · REvil

Reporting (3)

• The Evolution of PINCHY SPIDER from GandCrab to REvil — Meyers, Adam
• REvil/Sodinokibi Ransomware — Counter Threat Unit Research Team
• REvil: The GandCrab Connection — Secureworks