{"id":1766,"date":"2016-12-07T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2022-04-06T01:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:11:55","slug":"petya-mischa-ransomware-variant-goldeneye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/07\/petya-mischa-ransomware-variant-goldeneye\/","title":{"rendered":"Petya-Mischa Ransomware variant GoldenEye"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Petya-Mischa ransomware seems to return as \"GoldenEye\", hitting German companies. Currently the e-mail spam campaign spreading GoldenEye addresses German speaking users so far.  <\/p>\n

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Human resources department as target<\/h3>\n

The spam e-mails are addressing people in German human resources department \u2013 suggesting it will be a legit application.<\/p>\n

\"E-Mail
(Source: Bleeping Computer<\/a>) <\/p>\n

The e-mail body contains the name of a person within the human resources department and also addresses job offers from this company as well as non public e-mail-addresses and phone numbers of this employee. The mail contains a PDF document with further details to make it more serious looking. Attached is also an Excel .xls file, suggesting that it contains a resume or curriculum vitae. <\/p>\n

\"Excel-Dokument\"<\/a>
(Source: malwr.com) <\/p>\n

If the receiver of this spam mail opens the Excel file, he will be greeted with a German message, suggesting to enable the Excel feature to edit the document. If the user enables this feature, a macro will be executed. This macro load some encryption Trojans and begin to encrypt user data. Afterward, the ransomware displays a note:<\/p>\n


(Source: Bleeping Computer<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On the given website the cyber criminals requests 1,33 bitcoins to unencrypt the user data. The Trojan also tries to install a new master boot record (MBR) to encrypt more files. Further details may be found within my German article or at Bleeping Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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