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‘Help recover files.txt’ Ransomware

Posted: October 16, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 16
First Seen: October 16, 2015
Last Seen: June 11, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware is a file encryptor that uses an RSA-2048 encryption algorithm to prevent you from accessing personal or work-related files. The Trojan holds these files for ransom, which this threat's associated instruction text provides directions for paying. However, since these ransoms rely on the veracity of its perpetrators for restoring your data, malware experts advise alternative resolution methods, typically encompassing removing the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware with an anti-malware product, followed by using common backup strategies for retrieving your files.

A New Trojan Helping Itself to Your Files

The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware is a threat malware experts only verified for being distributed throughout Bulgaria and Greece, with an apparent focus on business Web servers in unidentified sectors. Instead of being installed by other threats, the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware shows evidence of being installed manually via remote network vulnerabilities such as weak account passwords. Con artists are believed to have conducted brute force attacks for breaking into vulnerable servers and installing the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware that disguises itself as a fake 'DateTime' component for your Windows account.

With its installation accomplished, the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware scans for files on your PC to be encrypted. Successful attacks prevent the affected files from being read by relevant software, and also may modify all file names. The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware also places a text file on any affected drives, from which it derives its name. This text file demands payments in the Bitcoin currency that approximate values of 240 USD in exchange for having your files run through a decryption service hosted by the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware's maintenance team.

The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware may extend its attacks to any removable devices plugged into your PC during its payload execution, as well as to automatically-synced, unprotected cloud server backups such as the Dropbox files.

The More Affordable Path to File Recovery

The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware requires consent to cause any financial damage to its victims, and profits off of a lack of safe backup protocols. Besides being unable to affect periodic backups managed through secure cloud services or unattached hard drives, the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware also shows difficulties in affecting archive-stored files (such as .ZIP). Files currently in use during the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware's payload execution, such as any active SQL databases, also may avoid being encrypted incidentally.

Besides recommending the deletion of the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware with the anti-malware tool of your choice, malware experts also advise treating compromised machines as being potentially open to backdoor attacks. Such attacks could install other threats in addition to the 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware, changing system settings or collecting information. All vulnerable passwords should be changed to block any renewed attempts to access your PC through a remote network connection.

The 'Help recover files.txt' Ransomware has not been seen attacking targets outside of Greece and Bulgaria, although similar ransomware-based threats distribute themselves throughout most parts of Europe.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:



%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\<username>\Desktop\BAD BAD BAD\dsdsdsdsdsds\a18ad572ca6b8b53d45eef810fc116f9ea1e820528af97f2fbd970f252296fe5 File name: a18ad572ca6b8b53d45eef810fc116f9ea1e820528af97f2fbd970f252296fe5
Size: 7.29 MB (7299072 bytes)
MD5: 1de73f49db23cf5cc6e06f47767f7fda
Detection count: 7
Path: %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\<username>\Desktop\BAD BAD BAD\dsdsdsdsdsds\a18ad572ca6b8b53d45eef810fc116f9ea1e820528af97f2fbd970f252296fe5
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2020
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