Demonslay335

When you pay, the criminal gives you a decryptor and your personal key. So yes, they don't require internet access because they give you a key you have to input into the program. We call them "online" and "offline" keys based on how they are used with the malware. The FAQ clearly states this, but I will re-summarize it for you... Online Key: The malware talked to their server at the time you were infected, and their server generated a key unique to you. Only the criminals have your key. Offline Key: The malware failed to talk to their server, and resorted to an "offline" key that is embedded in the binary. Everyone who has a file encrypted and has the corresponding ID (also embedded in the malware) will have the same key for those files. The NEW variants (aka yours) all use RSA encryption, so these keys are not breakable. Due to different circumstances, many times some files are encrypted with the Online key, and others with the Offline key; the malware constantly reaches out to it's command server, so if even one of those times fails, then that "run" of the malware encrypts with the Offline key. We sometimes are able to acquire the Offline keys after one victim has paid, and it can help others recover some files, but the Online keys remain unique and do not help anyone else. Our decryptor requires internet access because we store all the keys and keystreams we acquire on our server. This allows us to manage it without having to push a decryptor update every time we get a new key, and for ease of the user in not having to input anything additional to the program. Please READ THE FAQ, this is all explained in there. Only the criminals have the Online keys; they are impossible to break. If you really want to "name a price" and throw money at the problem, feel free to invest in the quantum computing industry; we're still decades away from even attempting to use quantum computers for breaking RSA-2048.

If you have a valid file pair that is too large for the submission portal to accept, you will need to upload them to a third-party sharing site and provide them to us to add to the server manually.

This company deceives its customers and pretends they have a magic method of decrypting everything, when they are clearly just paying the ransom. IT is one of many who do this with absolutely no transparency to the customer. https://www.itwire.com/security/aust-firm-promises-data-decryption-after-dharma-ransomware-attack.html https://www.itwire.com/security/aust-firm-offering-ransomware-recovery-at-second-domain-as-well.html And a bit of a more NSFW tirade I went on recently about them: https://twitter.com/demonslay335/status/1194662643904241671

The groups behind Phobos actually compromise your system via RDP or other remote software you had open... no antivirus on the planet can protect you if someone had full control of the server.

With it being New Djvu, your files will only be decryptable for free if they were encrypted by the offline key once we acquire it. If the decryptor reports your files have the ID ZioGB1sCYacbrJajtnJKEUKt6xYM3QPgwAPNAwt1, then they were encrypted by the offline key, and thus possibly decryptable in the future. Otherwise, it is an online key, and there is nothing we will be able to do to help since only the criminals have your online key(s).

We have not acquired any new keys since the release of the decryptor. The criminals stopped using that server by time we got the keys, and have been infecting users from another server.

The ".Snc" variant is not supported by the decrypter, but we are currently working on it. Can't guarantee it will be decryptable at this point, they made some changes as expected.

@broniusr I've fixed that now. Please try re-downloading for v1.0.0.1.

@broniusr The decryptor has been updated, please try downloading it again. If you run it from the same directory as before, it should pickup the key file from the previous session, and you won't have to re-bruteforce it. Thanks for reporting the bug.

You were encrypted more recently than we have keys for, that's why you get that message. Nothing we can do at the present time.

@broniusr You are correct, the malware encrypts up to 0x27100 bytes of the file, and I forgot to test bait files smaller than that limit. I'll post here once the decryptor has been updated to factor for that bug in the malware. Every version of this malware family has had at least one such bug relating to the crypto, so annoying...

Not yet, but decryption of 3.0 is coming soon. The idiot who coded it has an annoying bug that corrupts many files that we have to overcome.