Anony.killers@protonmail.com Ransomware

Posted: May 23, 2017

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	15

First Seen:	May 23, 2017
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that tries to lock your files so that it can demand ransoms for restoring them. While this threat is in development, its encryption feature is theoretically functional and can block content, such as pictures, archives, or documents, in any specified locations. Keeping backups can mitigate any risk of damage from threats of this category, and any active and updated anti-malware product should delete the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware automatically.

The File Killers Making Themselves Known Anonymously

Between increasingly cheap RaaS Trojans and outright 'free' ones like Hidden Tear, con artists have more resources than they could need to launch a campaign for extorting money with help from encryption attacks. The 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware is one of the newest threats in this category that malware experts have identified in a mid-development stage, meaning that further work on its features is probable. For now, however, the Trojan already includes functions for encoding local content on the PC and showing threatening messages to the user.

Malware researchers haven't fully analyzed the encryption routine the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware uses, although it does determine which media to attack by scanning specific locations on the PC. While the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware targets a demo folder currently, in the future, it may analyze areas like Downloads or the desktop for files to encipher with an algorithm, such as the AES-128. The Trojan does add an '.anon' extension to every piece of media it blocks this way, like May's FuckTheSystem Ransomware.

The Trojan has one other feature of note: its Windows pop-up, which contains brief ransoming instructions for contacting the e-mail to unlock your files, along with vulgarities directed to the victim. The 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware's ransom negotiations use English, although threats in this category often default to that language, to guarantee their overall compatibility with different countries.

Putting a Killing Spree to a Sudden Stop

Although the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware has many of the features of a file-encrypting threat, it also is missing others. The Trojan doesn't re-launch itself after the PC reboots and doesn't display its messages in formats that would block your screen or desktop. Accordingly, any victims have full access to Windows recovery utilities and features that could help them retrieve their media and disinfect the system. However, since the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware is unfinished, all of these facts may be less so with future updates.

The 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware is compatible with the Windows systems starting at Vista and upwards. Default anti-malware protection may block many of the distribution exploits that con artists can use with threats of this category, including corrupted e-mail attachments, toxic website addresses, and the drive-by-downloads of an exploit kit. Malware researchers always encourage updating anti-malware programs for improving their detection rates and helping them delete the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware, and similar Trojans, with little to no trouble.

The future will have to reveal how industrious or invested the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware's authors are in making this Trojan truly competitive in a frantic, underground marketplace. However, whether it's a cheap cash-in or a long-term project, the 'anony.killers@protonmail.com' Ransomware is a very believable danger to any files without backup copies.

Anony.killers@protonmail.com Ransomware

Threat Metric

The File Killers Making Themselves Known Anonymously

Putting a Killing Spree to a Sudden Stop

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