Versiegelt Ransomware

Posted: November 2, 2016

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	5

First Seen:	November 2, 2016
Last Seen:	April 14, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Versiegelt Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts and renames your files so that it can extort a ransom payment. Backups can help PC owners keep their data from being damaged by threats of this classification and offer more reliable recovery options than paying an extortionist's ransom fee. You also can protect your PC by keeping anti-malware software to remove the Versiegelt Ransomware before it scans and encrypts your files, an attack that may not display any symptoms.

A Fresh Trojan's Stamp Sealing Your Belongings

When it comes to taking money under duress, one of the easiest strategies threat authors have is to threaten the contents of an already-compromised PC. For this reason, along with the help of third-party threat actors offering toolkits and administration panels, malware researchers see new threats like the Versiegelt Ransomware appearing daily. This Trojan targets German-speaking PC users with its ransom messages, although others are conducting equally-recent campaigns against English speakers, Russians and even residents of Bangladesh.

The Versiegelt Ransomware uses AES encryption for encoding your files and ciphering their data, stopping them from opening. As in common to most file-encrypting Trojans, the Versiegelt Ransomware also uses an extension customized for its campaign ('.Versiegelt') to help its victims identify the encoded data. It also may rename the files by overwriting the original names with alphanumeric characters (such as turning 'flower.jpg' into '1.Versiegelt').

The Versiegelt Ransomware's profits come from the advanced HTML pop-up message it launches after encoding the PC's contents. Through this pop-up, the Trojan asks for a 100 Euro-sized payment in Bitcoins for providing data recovery, with the transaction handling through a built-in Web UI. The use of Bitcoin helps guarantee the anonymity of the transaction and stops victims from retrieving their money in cases where the con artist goes back on his word.

Cracking the Seal of Another Threat Campaign

The Versiegelt Ransomware campaign's pop-up window employs a format malware experts see in other campaigns, most famously, the file-deleting Jigsaw Ransomware. However, the Versiegelt Ransomware shows no capacity for erasing content based on an expiring timer, and malware experts can't confirm any significant links between the Versiegelt Ransomware and similar threats. While there may be no rush to delete the Versiegelt Ransomware to avoid other consequences, the presence of non-compromised backups may be a necessity for achieving recovery without paying the ransom demand.

Although its German name translates to 'sealed,' the Versiegelt Ransomware offers a far more robust form of message-locking technology than wax or glue. Because of the absence of a free decryption tool for the Versiegelt Ransomware, PC owners without protection from this threat's installation exploits may be incapable of recovering the encrypted data. However, standard anti-malware programs can remove the Versiegelt Ransomware beforehand.

The Versiegelt Ransomware is another case of a linguistically-customized threat that represents a security hazard to PC owners in particular nations. PC owners in Germany, or regions speaking the German language, should consider the possibility of infection vectors 'dressing up' for their locales, up to tailoring the business references of any spam email spam.

Versiegelt Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Fresh Trojan's Stamp Sealing Your Belongings

Cracking the Seal of Another Threat Campaign

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