JackPot Ransomware

Posted: October 28, 2016

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	5

First Seen:	October 28, 2016
Last Seen:	September 29, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The JackPot Ransomware is a file encryptor Trojan that ransoms your PC's contents by encoding important types of data, such as your text documents. While the JackPot Ransomware loads messaging urging you to pay cryptocurrency fees for the restoration of your content, malware experts continue finding the routine use of backups as being a safer and cheaper way to protect your files. Always allow your anti-malware software the opportunity to remove the JackPot Ransomware and disinfect your PC.

Hitting the Wrong Kind of JackPot

The act of Trojan development is one of managing numerous details for avoiding security nets, exploiting vulnerabilities for distribution, and maximizing the impact of a payload while minimizing its system stress. Not every Trojan campaign is equally well-administrated, though, and some threat authors overlook important features that would seem obvious, in hindsight. Such as the JackPot Ransomware's ransom method, which confuses Bitcoin and Litecoin cryptocurrencies and hamstrings its extortion attempts in the process.

Malware experts are still examining the most probable infection vectors with the JackPot Ransomware's campaign, although they can verify that the Trojan suppresses Windows error messages that could identify its installation. The JackPot Ransomware also conducts significant network traffic, which con artists can use for modifying the Trojan's behavior, installing other threats, or receiving encryption-related information.

The defining portion of the JackPot Ransomware's payload is its file-encrypting behavior, which uses an AES algorithm for encoding file types, such as documents or audio clips. While malware experts have yet to associate any file-renaming behavior with the JackPot Ransomware, the Trojan does display another, common symptom: an image-based message extorting the PC owner for ransom money for recovering their content. In a significant error on the part of the JackPot Ransomware's author, the Trojan's current version displays a Litecoin wallet address for receiving money, rather than a Bitcoin one, as its instructions state.

Walking Away from Gambling on Your Files

Based on the JackPot Ransomware's use of proxy settings, cache queries, and scans of Internet Explorer's Registry values, the Trojan also may double as a spyware product or a browser hijacker. Along with blocking data, it also may try to collect passwords by intercepting them from stored locations or redirecting your browser to a phishing site. In spite of the above, even if the JackPot Ransomware's campaign only makes meaningful use of its data-encrypting attacks, it can block valuable content on your PC and act as a network vulnerability for a remote attacker's general exploitation.

At this date, major brands of anti-malware solutions are beginning to add the JackPot Ransomware to their databases, with positive detection rates of this threat on the rise. However, a majority of such software may not identify the JackPot Ransomware correctly or at all until updated. Patch your anti-malware suite's threat database whenever appropriate to help it stop the JackPot Ransomware and other, similarly new Trojans.

One con artist's fortunate is, very often, another man's misfortune. Even seemingly minor improvements to your data storage and security capabilities can be a powerful defense against the JackPot Ransomware and many, similar Trojans with (your) money on their mind.

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:

file.exe

File name: file.exe
Size: 3.61 MB (3610624 bytes)
MD5: 5624c920b1fd3da3a451d564bb7488d3
Detection count: 96
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 29, 2020

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