Malevich Ransomware

Posted: August 25, 2016

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	18

First Seen:	August 25, 2016
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Malevich Ransomware is a file encryption Trojan: threatening software that modifies your files via a cipher and then sells the decryption process for restoring them. The technical issues around breaking even simple encryption standards make it essential that PC owners use whatever preventative defenses they can against these attacks. Limit any access to new, undamaged files while you remove the Malevich Ransomware with established anti-malware procedures.

Another Day of Common Trojan Crises

The increasing sophistication in the market of threatening software has resulted in numerous remote attackers controlling Trojans that they have little or no part in creating. With threats like the Malevich Ransomware, generated through the code provided by the CrySiS builder, the delivery methods, ransoming preferences, and even encryption targets all are relatively spontaneous and unpredictable details. However, the scope of the Malevich Ransomware's attack ignores essential components of your OS consistently and, instead, damages files related to work or personal media.

The Malevich Ransomware launches scans for files fitting under its whitelisted formats, such as DOCX, and uses AES-based encryption standards for rearranging their data. The standard in use by the Malevich Ransomware and other Crysis Ransomware variants is sufficiently robust that the PC security sector has been unable to offer a final decryption solution. The damaged files are inaccessible completely, leaving the victim with the choice of deleting them or paying the Malevich Ransomware's threat actors for a decryption service that may not work.

The initial scan and encryption routine doesn't display symptoms, but malware experts did confirm the Malevich Ransomware's use of a change in desktop wallpaper. The new background image communicates the Malevich Ransomware's extortion demands, involving entering into negotiations via e-mail.

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The Malevich Ransomware uses the same basis for holding your information hostage as other campaigns that owe themselves to CrySiS, ranging from the Ecovector Ransomware and the 'Vegclass Ransomware to the Redshitline Ransomware and the 'Savepanda@india.com' Ransomware. One may mitigate their attacks by using backups saved in locations that the Trojan can't scan, which compensates for the possible lack of a decryptor. Malware researchers, unfortunately, report significant difficulties in the industry's ongoing efforts to create all-purpose decryption solutions for most products of the Crysis Ransomware's toolkit.

Many campaigns with the same goals and implementations as the Malevich Ransomware's attacks require access to some victims through e-mail attachments. Others may target servers with weak network security protocols or use drive-by-downloads on various websites for distributing Trojans in a relatively general manner. All of these cases are preventable by keeping to accepted standards in PC security, and using anti-malware products that always should be able to delete the Malevich Ransomware, or stop its installation completely.

Until a such a time when most PC owners practice such standards, refusing to pay the ransom and dealing with the consequences can reduce the chances of the Malevich Ransomware's threat actors launching other Trojan campaigns.

Malevich Ransomware

Threat Metric

Another Day of Common Trojan Crises

The Cure to a Trojan that's Reorganizing Your Data

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