'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware

The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware is a ransomware Trojan that belongs to a large family of ransomware threats that is active today. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware uses a sophisticated encryption algorithm to encrypt the victim's files, changing their extension to '.makdonalds@india.com.xtbl' in the process. The use of the extension '.xbtl' is one characteristic of the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware that seems to connect to other members of this threatening encryption ransomware Trojan family.

How the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware Carries out Its Attack

In many cases, the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware is installed with the help of another threat infection. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware may enter the victim's computer by taking advantage of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to install this threat infection. In most cases, the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware is delivered by using corrupted email attachments or hacking into the victim's computer directly. Once the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware has been installed, the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware it searches the victim's hard drives for files with certain extensions. Essentially, the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware will encrypt all of the victim's documents, media files, images, and save files, as well as programs that are nonessential for Windows to function. Files that have been encrypted by the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware become useless until they are decrypted, which is impossible without access to a decryption key, which the con artists will refuse to release until an expensive ransom is paid.

The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware ransom can be of thousands of dollars, often paid through BitCoins or another anonymous method. PC security analysts strongly advise against paying the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware ransom. Malware analysts have received numerous reports of the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware and its variants' victims paying the ransom and then receiving nothing in return or, even worse, being asked to pay additional amounts after the first decryption key did not work.

Taking a Quick Look at the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware Attack

Ransomware associated with the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware seems to use @india.com emails for the ransom payment. Although plenty of the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware infections have been observed outside of India, it does seem that the con artists are targeting computer users in this country mainly. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware may be installed by attaching a corrupted file to a phishing email. When this file is opened, a Trojan dropper will install the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware on the victim's computer. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware's executable file may be installed in one of the following directories:

%AppData%
%Roaming%
%Local%
%LocalRow%
%Windows%
%System%
%System32%
%Temp%

To make it seem that this file is legitimate, it will often have a name that makes it appear as a Windows system component. After being installed, the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware changes the infected computers settings to ensure that it persists whenever the affected PC shuts down. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware will then start to encrypt the following types of files:

PNG .PSD .PSPIMAGE .TGA .THM .TIF .TIFF .YUV .AI .EPS .PS .SVG .INDD .PCT .PDF .XLR .XLS .XLSX .ACCDB .DB .DBF .MDB .PDB .SQL .APK .APP .BAT .CGI .COM .EXE .GADGET .JAR .PIF .WSF .DEM .GAM .NES .ROM .SAV CAD Files .DWG .DXF GIS Files .GPX .KML .KMZ .ASP .ASPX .CER .CFM .CSR .CSS .HTM .HTML .JS .JSP .PHP .RSS .XHTML. DOC .DOCX .LOG .MSG .ODT .PAGES .RTF .TEX .TXT .WPD .WPS .CSV .DAT .GED .KEY .KEYCHAIN .PPS .PPT .PPTX ..INI .PRF Encoded Files .HQX .MIM .UUE .7Z .CBR .DEB .GZ .PKG .RAR .RPM .SITX .TAR.GZ .ZIP .ZIPX .BIN .CUE .DMG .ISO .MDF .TOAST .VCD SDF .TAR .TAX2014 .TAX2015 .VCF .XML Audio Files .AIF .IFF .M3U .M4A .MID .MP3 .MPA .WAV .WMA Video Files .3G2 .3GP .ASF .AVI .FLV .M4V .MOV .MP4 .MPG .RM .SRT .SWF .VOB .WMV 3D .3DM .3DS .MAX .OBJ R.BMP .DDS .GIF .JPG ..CRX .PLUGIN .FNT .FON .OTF .TTF .CAB .CPL .CUR .DESKTHEMEPACK .DLL .DMP .DRV .ICNS .ICO .LNK .SYS .CFG.

Every time the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware encrypts a file, it changes its extension, making it easy to identify the files that have been compromised by the 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware. The 'Makdonalds@india.com' Ransomware will change the victim's Desktop image and drop files to display the ransom note instructing the victim to email the con artists for instructions on how to pay.

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