Teamdarkanon Ransomware 🔐 (. Anon File) — Removal Guide

Teamdarkanon virus: what is known so far?

Teamdarkanon will append its extra .anon extension to every file’s title. For instance, an image entitled “photo.jpg” will be renamed to “photo.jpg.anon”. In the same manner, the Excel file named “table.xlsx” will become “table.xlsx.anon”, and so on.

In each directory containing the encrypted files, a read_it.txt text document will appear. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information on the ways of contacting the racketeers and some other information. The ransom note usually contains instructions on how to buy the decryption tool from the racketeers. That is pretty much the scheme of the crime.

In the image below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Teamdarkanon looks like. Each filename has the “.anon” extension appended to it.

How did my computer get infected with Teamdarkanon ransomware?

Nowadays, there are three most popular ways for tamperers to have the Teamdarkanon virus working in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer-to-peer file transfer.

If you open your inbox and see emails that look like familiar notifications from utility services companies, delivery agencies like FedEx, web-access providers, and whatnot, but whose sender is strange to you, be wary of opening those letters. They are very likely to have a malware item attached to them. So it is even more dangerous to open any attachments that come with letters like these.

Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan horse model³. A Trojan is an object that gets into your machine pretending to be something different. For example, you download an installer for some program you need or an update for some software. But what is unboxed reveals itself a harmful program that corrupts your data. As the installation wizard can have any title and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the resource of the stuff you’re downloading. The best thing is to use the software companies’ official websites.

As for the peer file transfer protocols like BitTorrent or eMule, the threat is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Web. You can never guess what you download until you get it. Our suggestion is that you use trustworthy resources. Also, it is a good idea to scan the folder containing the downloaded files with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is done.