Try2Cry: Ransomware tries to worm

From gdatasoftware.com

Try2Cry ransomware adopts USB flash drive spreading using LNK files. The last ransomware that did the same was the infamous Spora. The code of Try2Cry looks oddly familiar, though.

A big portion of my work as malware analyst at G Data is writing detection signatures for our product. One of those signatures checks for a USB worm component that I have seen in certain variants of .NET based RATs like njRAT and BlackNet RAT. When this worm signature hit on an unidentified sample[1], I got curios. It was a .NET ransomware that seemed oddly familiar to me. I couldn’t put a finger on it yet.

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