Iroubalsct Files Ransomware – Remove Iroubalsct Virus

What is known about the Iroubalsctvirus?

Iroubalsct will append its specific ..iroubalsct extension to every file’s title. For instance, an image named “photo.jpg” will be changed to “photo.jpg..iroubalsct”. In the same manner, the Excel table named “table.xlsx” will become “table.xlsx..iroubalsct”, and so forth.

In each directory with the encoded files, a HOW TO RESTORE YOUR FILES.TXT text file will be found. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information on the ways of paying the ransom and some other remarks. The ransom note usually contains a description of how to buy the decryption tool from the tamperers. That is how they do it.

In the picture below, you can see what a folder with files encrypted by the Iroubalsct looks like. Each filename has the “..iroubalsct” extension added to it.

How did my computer get infected with Iroubalsct ransomware?

There are currently three most exploited methods for criminals to have the Iroubalsct virus acting in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer file transfer.

If you access your mailbox and see letters that look like familiar notifications from utility services companies, postal agencies like FedEx, web-access providers, and whatnot, but whose addresser is unknown to you, beware of opening those emails. They are most likely to have a harmful item attached to them. So it is even more dangerous to download any attachments that come with letters like these.

Another thing the hackers might try is a Trojan virus scheme³. A Trojan is an object that gets into your machine pretending to be something legal. For example, you download an installer of some program you need or an update for some software. But what is unpacked reveals itself a harmful program that encrypts your data. As the installation file can have any name and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the source of the files you’re downloading. The optimal thing is to use the software companies’ official websites.

As for the peer-to-peer file transfer protocols like torrent trackers or eMule, the danger is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Internet. You can never know what you download until you get it. So you’d better be using trustworthy websites. Also, it is reasonable to scan the folder containing the downloaded objects with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is finished.