- Distribution Method : Remote access through Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP) or Terminal Services
- MD5 : 627e9322ce7de02bf5289dc44af7e4ed
- Major Detection Name : A variant of Win32/Filecoder.OFO (ESET), W32/Filecoder.OFO!tr.ransom (Fortinet)
- Encrypted File Pattern : .faratacks
- Malicious File Creation Location : C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\<Random>.exe
- Payment Instruction File : How_to_recovery.txt
- Major Characteristics :
- Offline Encryption
- Fake Globe / PSCrypt Ransomware series
- Recovery Partition (A:\) + EFI System Partition (B:\) drives are activate.
- Disable system restore (vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet)
- Initializing the Terminal Server Client Registry (reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default" /va /f, reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Servers" /f, reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Servers")
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