Batman_good@aol.com Ransomware

Posted: August 30, 2016

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	44

First Seen:	August 30, 2016
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts your files to stop you from using them. Although its attacks are meant to extort any victims into paying con artists for a decryption service, once they receive their ransom, the threat actors terminate all communications. These attacks can cause long-lasting file damage, but most anti-malware solutions should find it within their purview to delete the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware before its attacks are final.

The Unheroic Backup for a Trojan Ransomware Army

The 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware is part of a sub-group of Trojans built from the CrySiS's kit, which creates predictable symptoms, such as specifically-named TXT messages and file-renaming formats. The Crysis Ransomware like the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware can use many distribution exploits, based on which con artists administer a particular strain. Malware experts most intimately connect the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware's sub-group of Trojans with brute force attacks against accounts with weak passwords. Other tactics might disguise the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware's installer as an e-mail invoice or a free game download.

The 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware encrypts files defined as non-essential to Windows via a scanning routine that searches for the extensions in its whitelist. Besides the encryption attack blocking the contents of all affected files, a standardized renaming feature appends an identification number, the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware's e-mail address and the '.xtbl' extension. The original name is left intact, in front of these insertions.

The final point in the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware's payload is the generation of text and image-formatted ransoming messages, through which it recommends using the e-mail contact for getting decryption help. Standard behavior from the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware's admins includes stringing along the victim with a promised decryptor download and then ignoring further e-mails after the cash transferral.

The same threat actors also operate similar campaigns with different contact addresses, including ones for the 'Seven_legion@aol.com' Ransomware, 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware, and the 'Diablo_diablo2@aol.com' Ransomware.

Running the Caped Crusader out of Your Town

The 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware is far closer to a cowardly serial villain based on duplicitous negotiations than it is to a traditional comic superhero. Regardless of its hostage-taking antics, the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware is no laughing matter like its namesake's nemesis and can cause damage to your files that's impossible to decode. Unless its administrators have an unlikely change of heart, or the PC security sector experiences a breakthrough in cracking asymmetric AES-RSA encryption, PC owners can best protect their data by keeping a second backup.

Refrain from connecting any needless hard drives to an infected PC, or allowing the PC to have access to a network-mapped drive. In these scenarios, the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware may encrypt additional files. Limit the Trojan's access to new data until you can remove the 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware through the ideal anti-malware product of your choice.

The 'Batman_good@aol.com' Ransomware is no Batman, but it may strike fear into the hearts of PC owners, albeit by sabotaging information that its operators have no intention of retrieving.

Batman_good@aol.com Ransomware

Threat Metric

The Unheroic Backup for a Trojan Ransomware Army

Running the Caped Crusader out of Your Town

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