Hive

Internal ID: elf.hive

208

victims

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Malware family identifying elf.hive. Origin and technical characteristics tracked via Malpedia.

Threat Analysis

Hive is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

Ransomware Victims (208)

CTIWATCH tracks 208 organizations claimed as victims by Hive on its data leak site, with attack dates, sectors and countries.

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External References

→https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.08477.pdf

→https://blog.group-ib.com/hive

→https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2022/09/esxi-targeting-ransomware-the-threats-that-are-after-your-virtual-machines-part-1.html

→https://github.com/reecdeep/HiveV5_file_decryptor

→https://github.com/rivitna/Malware/tree/main/Hive

→https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/russian-hacker-wazawaka-indicted-for-ransomware/

→https://lifars.com/2022/02/how-to-decrypt-the-files-encrypted-by-the-hive-ransomware/

→https://media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2022/06/23093553/Common-TTPs-of-the-modern-ransomware_low-res.pdf

→https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE54L7v

→https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/128232/security/recover-files-hive-ransomware.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

elf.hive

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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