Cryptorbit Ransomware

Posted: January 28, 2014

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Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	23

First Seen:	January 28, 2014
Last Seen:	October 22, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Cryptorbit Ransomware is a particularly inconvenient variant of ransomware known as a file encryption Trojan, similar to Ransomlock, Ransomcrypt and the CryptoLocker. After modifying some common file formats to make all relevant files unusable, the Cryptorbit Ransomware demands that you pay a four hundred dollar-equivalent fee to acquire the special code to restore your files. However, basic good PC practices can thwart this attack with surprising simplicity, and malware researchers always recommend removing Cryptorbit Ransomware and other threat, rather than giving criminals any positive feedback for their attacks.

The Encrypting Threat that's Orbiting All Your Documents

Although the Cryptorbit Ransomware doesn't pretend to be a warning from the police or try to block other programs, the Cryptorbit Ransomware has effects that are scarcely less dreadful than those of any other type of ransomware: the Cryptorbit Ransomware encrypts files of specified types, temporarily scrambling their contents to make them unreadable until they've been decrypted. File formats that previous file encryptors have been known to assault also are the Cryptorbit Ransomware's preferred targets, including Word documents, other text-based formats, picture formats like JPG and art project files.

Encryption doesn't damage the encrypted files in a permanent sense. However, although PC security companies occasionally provide utilities for decrypting particularly notorious encryptor Trojans, there aren't any known decryption tools for the Cryptorbit Ransomware. Preventing a Cryptorbit Ransomware infection ever from happening is, therefore, particularly recommended by malware experts. Looking through another angle, even if you fail at that, there are alternative strategies to the one that the Cryptorbit Ransomware proposes: giving criminals hundreds of dollars-equivalent in Bitcoins to decrypt the files that they encrypted in the first place.

The Key to Unscrambling Your Files that will not Cost You Four Hundred USD

Besides emphasizing the fact that Bitcoin still has to go far before it can shake free of its criminal black market, the Cryptorbit Ransomware is another cause for malware researchers to recommend that all PC users back their files up regularly. A file backup on an external drive can be protected from the Cryptorbit Ransomware's attack, and once the Cryptorbit Ransomware is removed with any suitable anti-malware product, restoring all encrypted files should be a simple affair. In some cases, the System Restore feature also may be able to rollback all affected files to their unencrypted formats.

Sadly, the fight against file-encrypting Trojans like the Cryptorbit Ransomware has yet to turn up any 'one size fits all' solution to encryption attacks. Because of the risk of computer data being lost irrecoverably through Cryptorbit Ransomware's attacks, having good file maintenance and avoiding known infection vectors, are extremely important for anyone who values the safety of their files. The Cryptorbit Ransomware is believed to target Windows computers predominantly, but malware experts also have seen other file-encrypting Trojans working against other OSes like Mac's OS X.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	Cryptorbit YOUR PERSONAL FILES ARE ENCRYPTED All files including videos, photos and documents, etc on your computer are encrypted. Encryption was produced using a unique public key generated for this computer. To decrypt files, you need to obtain the private key. The single copy of the private key, which will allow you to decrypt the files, located on a secret server on the Internet; the server will destroy the key after a time specified in this window. After that, nobody and never will be able to restore files. In order to decrypt the files, open site 4sfxctgp53imlvzk.onion.to/index.php and follow the steps below: 1. You must download and install this browser: torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en 2. After installation, run the browser and enter the address: 4sfxctgp53imlvzk.onion/index.php 3. Follow the instructions on the web-site. We remind you that the sooner you do, the more chances are left to recover the files.

Message

Cryptorbit
YOUR PERSONAL FILES ARE ENCRYPTED
All files including videos, photos and documents, etc on your computer are encrypted. Encryption was produced using a unique public key generated for this computer. To decrypt files, you need to obtain the private key. The single copy of the private key, which will allow you to decrypt the files, located on a secret server on the Internet; the server will destroy the key after a time specified in this window. After that, nobody and never will be able to restore files. In order to decrypt the files, open site 4sfxctgp53imlvzk.onion.to/index.php and follow the steps below: 1. You must download and install this browser: torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en 2. After installation, run the browser and enter the address: 4sfxctgp53imlvzk.onion/index.php 3. Follow the instructions on the web-site. We remind you that the sooner you do, the more chances are left to recover the files.