Sponsored by Hudson Rock – Use Hudson Rock's free cybercrime intelligence tools to learn how Infostealer infections are leading to ransomware attacks

Enjoying ransomware.live? Help us keep tracking ransomware gangs and shipping new features. Support us

DragonForce – Rapid Multi-Tool Network/AD Reconnaissance

Dragonforce Discovery Sentinel
MITRE ATT&CK
Remote System Discovery
Data Source
DeviceProcessEvents
Date Added
2026-07-23
Last Updated
2026-07-23
Source
ransomware.live group_tools dataset (dragonforce)
What This Detects
DragonForce affiliates typically run Advanced IP Scanner, PingCastle and SoftPerfect NetScan back-to-back on the same host during the discovery phase. Two or more of these tools from one account in a short window is a strong pre-encryption signal.
Query
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(1d)
| where FileName in~ ("advanced_ip_scanner.exe","pingcastle.exe","netscan.exe")
| summarize ToolsSeen = make_set(FileName), FirstSeen = min(Timestamp), LastSeen = max(Timestamp) by DeviceName, AccountName
| where array_length(ToolsSeen) >= 2

Hunting queries are starting points for threat hunting & detection engineering — validate table/column names against your own workspace schema and tune thresholds before turning any of these into a production alert rule.