SureRansom Ransomware

Posted: February 2, 2017

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	61

First Seen:	February 2, 2017
Last Seen:	June 16, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The SureRansom Ransomware is a Trojan that may lock your files with an encryption cipher or display threatening messages asking for ransom payments. Although the Trojan is in production, malware experts note that it does include features that could let it block the user from accessing his desktop or other applications during the extortion process. When practical, use anti-malware programs for deleting the SureRansom Ransomware and backups for recovering without paying its threat actors in a full infection scenario.

A Surefire Problem for Future Business Networks

Although making money almost always is the most important element of any campaign involving file-encrypting Trojans, the act of doing so is fraught with a range of technical hurdles. Many threat actors use transaction methods such as cryptocurrency or prepaid cash cards to circumvent any issues between them and take money from their victims. However, the developers of the SureRansom Ransomware seem to have relatively original ideas about how to extort money successfully.

The SureRansom Ransomware is self-described as being a Trojan that uses the AES-256 encryption to lock the files on the infected PC, with a campaign that emphasizes infiltrating business workstations. While the SureRansom Ransomware's authors have yet to add any file-encoding features to the SureRansom Ransomware's payload, the Trojan does operate with a working 'screen-locker' style ransom demand that it generates via a borderless pop-up window. The window blocks the desktop automatically, preventing the victim from accessing their files or any content other than the Trojan's provisions for a built-in payment option.

The SureRansom Ransomware's ransom-paying infrastructure requires no interaction from the victim other than clicking two key-purchase links with current ransoms valued at fifty Euros. The Trojan claims that the payments already have authorization through passwords that the Trojan collected during its payload's operations, which makes the process of submitting to the ransom exceptionally expedient. However, malware experts have yet to verify the function as fully working, and the chances are high that, like its data-encrypting function, the code for the payment processor is incomplete.

Sure Solutions to Ransom-Sending Trojans

Without the full completion of this threat's development and a corresponding series of verifiable, live attacks, a comprehensive analysis of the SureRansom Ransomware's payload is impossible. However, the Trojan follows along similar lines as previous examples of file-encoding threats attacking business servers and locking high quantities of data, with an emphasis on a streamlined extortion-paying experience. Less than ten anti-malware brands to date can detect the SureRansom Ransomware currently, predominantly as a heuristic variant of FileCoder.

As easy as the SureRansom Ransomware makes its paying process, its authors are under no hard obligation to abide by their terms and may accept your money without giving you any decryption help. Inexperienced threat actors also can use Trojans like the SureRansom Ransomware to imitate file-encrypting attacks without implementing them, which makes a case for paying any fees particularly questionable. Any businesses not already backing their data up to additional locations should do so when practical and use conventional anti-malware products for removing the SureRansom Ransomware.

Con artists stand to profit when their victims don't pause to ask reasonable questions. When you assume that Trojans like the SureRansom Ransomware are honest, your finances are more likely to lose than not.

SureRansom Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Surefire Problem for Future Business Networks

Sure Solutions to Ransom-Sending Trojans

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