PART I. Nothing boded ill:
It was Friday the 13th, 13 hours and 13 minutes. Nothing boded ill. The accountant in charge of payroll received an e-mail with an attachment and a suggestion to launch an interactive greeting card.
She entered the password and unpacked the file, then launched the executable file and waited for the funny picture.
The result came quickly - all the company's payroll data disappeared in an instant!
Part II. Quick restore:
Situation concerned the user and she filed a request to IT HelpDesk.
Upon receipt of the request, we immediately disconnected the computer from the network. There were over 5,000 files encrypted on network shares.
We rolled back the data to an overnight backup, halfway through the day users had to re-fill the data.
Part III. Avoid problem:
To avoid future problems, we configured Software Restriction Policy (SRP).
Example, for zip (*We have a lot of exceptions):
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.bat
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.cmd
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.com
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.exe
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.js
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.jse
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.pif
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.zip\*.scr
And created a report in Lansweeper to track SRP-triggers:
Select Top 10000000 tblAssets.AssetID,
tblAssets.AssetName,
tblAssets.IPAddress,
tblAssets.Username,
tblADusers.OU,
tblNtlogSource.Sourcename,
tblNtlog.Eventcode,
tblNtlog.TimeGenerated,
tblNtlogMessage.Message
From tblAssets
Inner Join tblNtlog On tblAssets.AssetID = tblNtlog.AssetID
Inner Join tblNtlogMessage On tblNtlogMessage.MessageID = tblNtlog.MessageID
Inner Join tblNtlogSource On tblNtlogSource.SourcenameID =
tblNtlog.SourcenameID And (tblNtlogSource.Sourcename =
'Microsoft-Windows-SoftwareRestrictionPolicies' Or
tblNtlogSource.Sourcename = 'Software Restriction Policies')
Left Join tblADusers On tblADusers.Username = tblAssets.Username
Order By tblNtlog.TimeGenerated Desc
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