- Distribution Method : Remote access through Remote Desktop Protocol(RDP) or Terminal Services
- MD5 : 45de70c85ece8763c685808eea085df4
- Major Detection Name : Generic.Ransom.MedusaLocker.5C3CF31C (BitDefender), Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Medusa.n (Kaspersky)
- Encrypted File Pattern : .Readinstruction
- Malicious File Creation Location :
- C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\svhost.exe
- C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\svhost
- Payment Instruction File : HOW_TO_RECOVER_DATA.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 (360doctor.exe, Culture.exe, MsDtSrvr.exe, RTVscan.exe, sqlservr.exe, tomcat6.exe etc.)
- Stop multi services (ccEvtMgr, Culserver, DefWatch, SQLADHLP, sqlagent, vmware-usbarbitator64 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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