'Payfornature@india.com' Ransomware

Posted: July 20, 2016

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	79

First Seen:	July 20, 2016
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Payfornature@india.com Ransomware (also identified as PayForNature Ransomware) is a file encoding Trojan that uses data encryption as a method of extorting money from any affected victims. You can protect against these data 'hostage-taking' attacks by keeping regular, non-local backups. While anti-malware suites typically don't include any built-in decryption features, you still can remove the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware, and then use any of the free resources recommended in this article for recovering your information.

Traveling to India for Encrypted Files

Profit in the threatening software industry often is more about efficiency than creative drive, such as finding new ways to retool old threat strategies against the latest security updates. The summer of 2016 has shown this in particular abundance for the file encryption sub-sector of the threat black market, which sees rapid reintroductions of threats like the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware. Although malware analysts found few symptom-based changes between the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware and similar Trojans, it may avoid outdated security solutions and decryption utilities.

The Payfornature@india.com Ransomware uses still unidentified methods of system infiltration. Campaigns by similar threats this year have focused themselves on installing through e-mail attachments, e-mail Web links, and, occasionally, the exploit kits seeded on websites. Although malware researchers found no particularly visible elements tied to the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware's installation, the triggering of its payload provides several, clear symptoms:

The Payfornature@india.com Ransomware scans the PC for files of types not directly related to Windows, such as TXT, DOC and JPG. The Payfornature@india.com Ransomware then encrypts them using an algorithm still under analysis, with no public decryption method yet noted. An encrypted file is unreadable but is retrievable through a corresponding decryption routine. This routine may be individual to the Trojan or even each infection.
Besides enciphering your data, the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware also renames it by appending its personal e-mail address (for communicating any ransom demands) and a custom identification string. Malware experts discourage erasing these changes, which can provide potentially valuable data for the decryption process. Files modified in this manner most often are notable by their '.crypt' extensions, which the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware shares with threats like CryptXXX Ransomware.
Some versions of the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware also may include ransom demands within image files, which they lock to the desktop background.

Dealing with the Nature of an Encrypting Trojan

Although the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware has significant commonality with Rakhni-derived threats, no old decryption applications have been verified for providing data recovery from this threat's attacks. PC users concerned about needing to ransom their files from the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware's threat actors should make heavy use of traditional backup protection, such as USB drives, cloud servers, and other, remote storage mechanisms. Since failed decryption can damage data, always make copies of your encrypted content before attempting to decrypt it.

Most recently-released encryption Trojans are compatible with the most modern versions of Windows, although malware experts only have verified the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware installations on Windows 7. E-mail messages remain the most widely-used infection routes for Trojans of this classification, and responsible PC owners should stay aware of common risks from such attacks, such as the potential for opening files with formats that don't match their extensions. Although some sources report the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware's including a limited self-uninstall feature, malware experts recommend using anti-malware tools to verify that your PC is safe and remove the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware, if need be.

Stopping the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware installers at their source is less technically troublesome, as well as ideal from a security perspective, compared to recovering from an infection. As long as there is value in data, threats like the Payfornature@india.com Ransomware will continue being dangers to any PC owner.

'Payfornature@india.com' Ransomware

Threat Metric

Traveling to India for Encrypted Files

Dealing with the Nature of an Encrypting Trojan

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