RaaSberry Ransomware

Posted: July 14, 2017

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	159

First Seen:	July 14, 2017
Last Seen:	June 26, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The RaaSberry Ransomware is a Trojan that is renting to third-party con artists on a Ransomware-as-a-Service model that allows them to reconfigure its mode of distribution and what types of data it attacks. It uses encryption to lock your files, and its related symptoms will deliver various ransom notes that ask payment for unlocking them typically. Having backups, proper network security, and anti-malware programs capable of deleting the RaaSberry Ransomware all are crucial counter-responses to this threat's campaign.

Puns are a Trojan's New Flavor

When threat actors have an interest in leveraging Trojans for data-ransoming attacks, they can take more than one path: programming a unique application, recycling another user's free code (as malware analysts see with Hidden Tear repeatedly) or paying money to a Ransomware-as-a-Service provider. The latter is experiencing a new entry into the market by the name of the RaaSberry Ransomware. While none of its features are highly innovative, it does offer all of the traditional attacks and functions in a convenient package for other on artists to exploit at their pleasure.

Besides the 'raspberry' pun offering an easy to remember branding identity, the RaaSberry Ransomware also confers easy-to-use features for any renting administrators, including:

The RaaSberry Ransomware bundles its decryption component with the rest of the program to eliminate the need for the threat actor to offer it separately. Instead, he needs only to provide the uniquely-generated password.
The RaaSberry Ransomware uses a combination of the AES-256 and RSA encryptions to protect its data-encoding attacks, which can lock the victim's files securely and indefinitely. The encoding scan may target different formats, based on a custom configuration, and can attack both local drives and network-mapped ones.
The Trojan conveys its ransom demands through both a desktop image-hijacking routine and another function that generates text files. The RaaSberry Ransomware also provides multi-linguistic support for the latter.
This threat includes Command & Control features that operate over a network connection, most significantly, for providing the decryption. However, it also can launch its encryption-based attacks without needing any Internet access.

Malware analysts warn that many of these features are similar to those of previous file-encoding Trojan groups and may complicate a user's ability to identify an infection. Running an incompatible decryptor on any locked files could damage them beyond the possibility of recovery.

Pruning the Trojan Berries that No One should be Eating

The RaaSberry Ransomware, like any respectable RaaS-based threat, may install itself through as many different means as it has con artists willing to pay to use it. Business entities often are at risk from e-mail-based infection vectors or exploit kits that can launch through compromised website content. Recreational users are more likely to encounter threats of this nature by downloading unsafe software from torrents and compromised sites disguising themselves as freeware resources. Updating your anti-malware products should help them identify new variants of the RaaSberry Ransomware as they appear.

Since the RaaSberry Ransomware's encoding method is relatively secure, users should defend their files against possible attacks with preventative security protocols. Scheduling backups to devices not at risk of the RaaSberry Ransomware infections can eliminate any decryption requirements for restoring your content. The Trojan also uses a built-in, Bitcoin-based ransoming method that guarantees that the con artist will have more protection in the transaction than the decryptor code's buyer. Professional anti-malware products also may remove the RaaSberry Ransomware before its installation or, less preferably, after an infection.

Depending on its popularity on the Dark Web, the RaaSberry Ransomware could be just the start of a new series of campaigns using minor offspring of the same code for different attacks. Although users may be able to save themselves by post-infection measures purely, malware analysts recommend that no one gamble by placing all their digital berries in a single basket.

RaaSberry Ransomware

Threat Metric

Puns are a Trojan's New Flavor

Pruning the Trojan Berries that No One should be Eating

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