TraNs Ransomware
Posted: June 21, 2017
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| Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 2,145 |
| First Seen: | June 21, 2017 |
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| Last Seen: | February 5, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The TraNs Ransomware is a Trojan that locks your files and holds them hostage until the victim pays for the decryption code. Malware experts are estimating that threat actors are introducing the TraNs Ransomware to unprotected PCs through manual methods, which makes practicing good password and network security paramount to preventing an infection. Programs with standardized anti-malware protection should identify and delete the TraNs Ransomware as a threat, although recovery of any locked files is not guaranteed necessarily.
Trojans Unable to Decide What Extension to Wear to an Infection
Among file-encrypting threats, brand awareness is critical, but not every con artist distributing Trojans can settle on the ideal name. A recent, otherwise ordinary case of RDP-based hacking has become an introduction to a new Trojan of this category, using two, separate identifiers and accompanying executables. Malware experts estimate that this is a result of two variants of the TraNs Ransomware being installed manually, although the threat actor's reasons for doing so are unclear.
Threat actors are collecting or brute-forcing passwords associated with company servers in unidentified sectors to drop the TraNs Ransomware. In most aspects, the TraNs Ransomware is a traditional file-encrypting threat and includes symptoms such as:
- The TraNs Ransomware locks a range of formats by encrypting them, although malware analysts have yet to confirm which cipher is in use. Documents, pictures, spreadsheets, archives, Web pages, and 3D models are examples of some of the media that the TraNs Ransomware could block.
- The TraNs Ransomware may append either 'TraNs' or 'TraNs550DonE' to the names of the above files that it attacks. In some cases, they may include doubled extensions. The TraNs Ransomware also associates these tags with its ransoming message-displaying an executable component so that trying to open them displays the ransom note.
- The text message (also readable outside of the TraNs Ransomware's secondary executable, which conceals itself as a random Temp file) uses almost identical sentences to those of the Xorist Ransomware campaign and solicits Bitcoin payments for the decryption key that unlocks your content.
Clearing Up a Confusing Trojan's Identity
Even without a history of using multiple extensions, the TraNs Ransomware includes significantly unrepresentative components that could cause the victims to inflict more damage on their locked files. The TraNs Ransomware is not a member of the Xorist Ransomware's family, and decryption software compatible with that family will damage, rather than unlock, your files. Malware experts recommend making copies of any encrypted media before using any one-way restoration strategies and always endorse keeping backups as the safest recovery option for your data.
It's unknown how the TraNs Ransomware's threat actors are compromising the login data of their targets. Although weak passwords can be brute-forced (or using specialized software to 'guess' the code), even sophisticated ones are susceptible to leaking through phishing attacks that disguise themselves as being legitimate requests. Although most anti-malware products should remove the TraNs Ransomware before other threats install it, manual installations are less easily preventable without modifying user behavior.
The TraNs Ransomware is another example to the growing list of threats that identify themselves in misleading ways and use infection methods hinging on previous security missteps. Whether you're preventing a Trojan attack or recovering from one, the greatest potential for harm usually comes from the person at the controls.
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