CryptoLocker Portuguese Ransomware

The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware is a Trojan created through a ransomware-building kit that can generate various Trojans with custom ransom methods and file-locking targets. While the victims of the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware's payloads can identify them through their obvious symptoms, infected PCs may have irretrievably damaged files, and malware experts recommend that all PC owners keep backups to alleviate that risk. High-quality brands of anti-malware software should remove the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware without trouble, but decrypting any locked files requires additional support.

Another Crisis Thanks to the Crysis Ransomware

Portuguese-speaking nations continue being regions of interest for ransom-based Trojan campaigns in 2017, with some of the newest attacks showing signs of deriving from the popularly-abused Crysis Ransomware family. The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware demonstrates most of the symptoms associated with that group of Trojans, including locking your files, modifying their names under a pattern for promoting its extortion negotiations, and related attacks. Malware experts also are taking note of other, less evident characteristics from the threat, such as its accessing Windows files for installation and persistence purposes.

Samples of the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware are using two, distinct disguises: fake internal memos and other business documentation, along with fake property management apps. The former installers most likely are in circulation via e-mails, while the compromised websites are more probably promoting the latter. The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware's install routine includes scanning the system's active memory processes, bypassing the Windows kernel security features, and initiating network connections to a C&C server.

Then, the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware proceeds with its payload:

• The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware encrypts files on your PC, including various formats of documents, pictures and other media. This cipher-based change to essential, internal data prevents other programs from being able to open the encrypted content (in theory, temporarily).
• The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware offers tags for the blocked data, fitting the format of the Crysis Ransomware family. It appends a unique ID number, a new extension, and an e-mail address to the end of each filename without removing any of the original name's text.
• The Trojan also creates a Notepad file that delivers a Portuguese-language explanation of the attack, as well as a ransom demand to restore your data. Victims are asked to negotiate through one of the two, free e-mail addresses the remote attacker uses for the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware's campaign.
• In support of the above, the payload also hijacks your desktop's wallpaper for displaying a copy of the same message.

Routine Solutions for Kit-Grown Trojans

The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware almost certainly is a threat generated by the same Trojan-building utilities that enable threat actors to launch new Trojan campaigns at a rental price without needing to know anything about programming. Still, Trojans with highly unoriginal payloads can be threatening to your computer as wholly original ones equally, particularly for threats like the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware that implement potentially permanent file changes. Crysis Ransomware-based decryptors are being hosted by the cyber security industry, but aren't always applicable to new releases like the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware.

The symptoms of the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware infections may result in a security compromise of the PC and a widespread file damage. Use appropriate safety strategies and AV software to guard against installation exploits that can spread the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware through previously-identified tactics, and remove the 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware afterward with anti-malware tools as necessary. Restoring your files from a backup remains preferable to trying to decrypt them, but various organizations in the cyber security industry do provide some support for that solution, when practical.

While many file-encryptor Trojans specialize in English-speaking regions of the world, South America is also at risk of similar campaigns. The 'CryptoLocker Portuguese' Ransomware is a clear-cut evidence of the fact that where you live isn't a natural protection from Trojans taking over your files, as long as there's money to be made in the process.