Ransomware Research

Nodera

Nodera was first discovered in December 2019 in enterprise cloud environments. Nodera is found in environments with a number of different names, including NodeJS, etc. For a full list of all names, please see below.

Name

Nodera

 

First Seen

December 2019

Targeting

Behavior of Nodera

Nodera is known to target specific file types. Below are all known file types that Nodera is known to infect.

In some cases, ransomware will update the modified date, when it encrypts files. Nodera unknown the last modified date of the file it targets.

Details

Characteristics of Nodera

Suffixes

Some ransomware will change or append a suffix to the end of the file after they are encrypted, including changing the extension of a file. Here are some of the possible suffixes that Nodera ransomware is known to change.

Suffixes

.encrypted

Ransomware Notes

Not all ransomware leaves a note. However, some ransomware leaves the infected party instructions on what the user should do to get rid of the ransomware, or satisfy the ransom. This often involves transferring money, often bitcoin or another cryptocurrency to a designated wallet.

Below are the type(s) of notes, content, and typical locations where Elastio has found ransom notes from Nodera.

Type

File Name

Location

file

How-to-buy-bitcoins.html

Desktop

Executables

These are the names of the executables that contain the undetonated ransomware payload for Nodera.

Executables

Комерческое предложение.doc.vbs, gfp0jak.vbs, lLT8PCI.js

External Pages

Ransomware often links to external pages such as payment pages, telegram contacts, etc. Below are some of the URLs Elastio has found to be associated with Nodera.

External Pages

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