In-Depth Analysis of Ransom Note Files

During recent years, many papers have been published on ransomware, but to the best of our knowledge, no previous academic studies have been conducted on ransom note files. In this paper, we present the results of a depth study on filenames and the content of ransom files. We propose a prototype to identify the ransom files. Then we explore how the filenames and the content of these files can minimize the risk of ransomware encryption of some...