Ransomware simulator: Ransomware simulator written in Golang

From securityonline.info

Ransomware Simulator

The goal of this repository is to provide a simple, harmless way to check your AV’s protection on ransomware.

This tool simulates typical ransomware behaviour, such as:

  • Staging from a Word document macro
  • Deleting Volume Shadow Copies
  • Encrypting documents (embedded and dropped by the simulator into a new folder)
  • Dropping a ransomware note to the user’s desktop

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