Petya

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Petya
Alias
Group	Cryptolocker
Parent
Sibling
Family
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	Microsoft Windows
Origin
Distribution vector	Spam, Dropbox
UserAgent
CCProtocol
Activity	/
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group

Features

• MBR overwrite

• Bitcoin payment

Checksums / AV databases

• 39B6D40906C7F7F080E6BEFA93324DDDADCBD9FA | Virustotal

• B0C5FAB5D69AFCC7FD013FD7AEF20660BF0077C2 | Virustotal

• 755f2652638f87ab517c608a363c4aefb9dd6a5a | Virustotal

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
PETYA crypto-ransomware overwrites MBR to lock users out of their computers	Jasen Sumalapao	TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog	2016
Petya ransomware skips the files and encrypts your hard drive instead	Lawrence Abrams	Bleeping Computer	2016