In 2019 the government barred negotiation firms from facilitating ransom payments for Evil Corp, they renamed their ransomware operations to different names such as
WastedLocker,
Hades and
Phoenix to circumvent these hurdles. After encrypting user files a file
PAYLOADBIN-README.txt is opened with following text.
The network is LOCKED with PAYLOADBIN ransomware. Don't try to use other software.
For decryption KEY write HERE: #1 rickhood@armormail.net | #2 meredithpatrick@protonmail.com
All encrypted files are padded with
.PAYLOADBIN extension.
PayloadBIN Ransomware Signatures
Family: Ransom:Win32/Filecoder!MSR
MD5: 063771d5573448ee6a271584a4b6a26a
SHA256: 69775389eb0207fec3a3f5649a0ad9315856c810f595c086ac49d68cdbc1d136
PayloadBIN Ransomware Download