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Preying on Assumptions: Symmetric Encryption in a CryptoLocker Variant

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CryptoLocker WarningThis trojan was found on a compromised web server that was used to send mass emails with a malicious attachment. Upon execution, the malware searches all logical drives for common media and document files, appends .CRYPTOLOCKER to each file’s name and allegedly encrypts each file with 2048-bit RSA key. It places a text file in every subdirectory with ransom instructions. It persists on the system by copying itself to a TEMP folder, and adding that copy to the system autoruns. It also gives this copy a file-association to the “.CRYPTOLOCKER” file extension. When it finishes this dirty work, it displays a warning (seen above) with instructions for downloading the Tor Browser to (presumably) cough up some money for the private RSA key required to decrypt the files. This is a similar pattern that we have seen in recent ransomware variants

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