- Distribution Method : Remote access through Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP) or Terminal Services
- MD5 : 06ff220aea6c9e27fd1765f25b9e27fb
- Major Detection Name : Trojan.Ransom.MedusaLocker (ALYac), Generic.Ransom.MedusaLocker.942644D7 (BitDefender)
- Encrypted File Pattern : .lockfiles
- Malicious File Creation Location :
- C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
- C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\svhost
- Payment Instruction File : Recovery_Instructions.html
- Major Characteristics :
- Offline Encryption
- EFI System Partition (X:\) and Recovery Partition (Y:\) drives are activate.
- Turns off User Access Control (UAC)
- Block processes execution (360se.exe, QBCFMonitorService.exe, RAgui.exe, sqlmangr.exe, winword.exe, ZhuDongFangYu.exe etc.)
- Stop multi services (Culserver, RTVscan, sqlagent, sqlbrowser, sqlservr, sqlwriter etc.)
- Disable system restore (vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet, bcdedit.exe /set {default} recoveryenabled No, bcdedit.exe /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures, wbadmin DELETE SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP, wbadmin DELETE SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -deleteOldest, wmic.exe SHADOWCOPY /nointeractive)
- Adds svhost to scheduler to execute "%AppData%\svhost.exe" Every 15 minutes.
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