And Now, an MBR Ransomware
Today my colleague Vitaly Kamluk wrote about a new GpCode-like ransomware which encrypts user’s files with RSA-1024 and AES-256 crypto-algorithms. We’re continuing to investigate this malware and will notify you about our findings.
However, GpCode.ax is not the only piece of ransomware we found today. We’ve just discovered a malware which overwrites the master boot record (MBR) and demands a ransom to retrieve a password and restore the original MBR. This malware is detected as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Seftad.a and Trojan-Ransom.Boot.Seftad.a.
This ransomware is downloaded by Trojan.Win32.Oficla.cw.
If Seftad.a was downloaded by Oficla.cw and run, the victim’s PC is rebooted and the following message appears on the screen:
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