- 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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