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Avaddon — 20210518_3

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Actor
Avaddon
Record date
May 18, 2021
Messages
103
Participants
Avaddon, Victim

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  1. Message 001 From Victim Victim Date

    hello can you help us recover our data/

  2. Message 002 From Victim Victim Date

    can we call you to discuss how you can help us? we didn't see a telephone number or company name on the page.

  3. Message 003 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Hello! You have been infected by the Avaddon ransomware. Price for you is $80,000. To receive a general decryptor, you need to pay the amount indicated to you in the BTC on the landing page. After paying the ransom, you will receive a general decryptor that will decrypt absolutely all PCs and servers on your network. We will also provide you with a list of vulnerabilities in your network so that a similar situation does not happen to you in the future. We also guarantee the anonymity of the and attack no one will recognize this incident. We are ready to talk to you and discuss on this matter.

  4. Message 004 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We are here 24/7, for all your questions, write here and we will help you.

  5. Message 005 From Victim Victim Date

    to be honest we will not need all your services, we just need 2 files to be restored from you. hopefully we have most data but there are some recent backups that cannot be restored to a recent point. So can you restore these with 5.000$? we are ready to cooperate with you to get recent data.

  6. Message 006 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You must understand that the amount is indicated for everything together. We cannot provide you with a decryptor for only part of the files. The decryptor will decrypt all files.

  7. Message 007 From Victim Victim Date

    so can you please give me a price that i can pay, so that i can purchase your service? mention that i live in greece and cannot find the money you said, not even close to it. So i want to work with you if you can help me recover my files. If you cannot i have to recreate about 30 days of entries in the database and it will take me probably 20 days to do so. I am now checking if you can help me skip the manual entries.

  8. Message 008 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We understand your situation and are ready to offer you a 15% discount on the total amount.

  9. Message 009 From Victim Victim Date

    unfortunately cannot pay for your service. Can you find a solution i can pay so we can work together? The amounts you ask is for US corporation. I own office in greece and i just need part of your service. i have my data, but need to skip manual work for now. Do you believe you can give me a price i can pay?

  10. Message 010 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    How much can you offer us, but please note that we cannot agree on $ 5,000.

  11. Message 011 From Victim Victim Date

    6000 $? How fast we can have the data back? we have already started the manual entries of invoices so until tomorrow i will have clear picture of what we have. also we are moving all our restored data to microsoft 365, eveyrhting seems to be ok apart from our 2 databases with missing data. I will know tomorrow how much work we need of manual entries.

  12. Message 012 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    $ 6,000 is still not enough. We cannot work with this amount. You need to offer more.

  13. Message 013 From Victim Victim Date

    as i understand we cannot work together. So we will see what we can recover with manual work in the following days. Your service would help me a lot save time if it is fast but you are very expensive for me.

  14. Message 014 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    After payment we will give you our Avaddon Decryptor, which will decrypt all your files on all your PCs and servers in a few hours. You can get back to work very quickly.

  15. Message 015 From Victim Victim Date

    that is vey good news. but we cannot meet your price needs.

  16. Message 016 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We want to help you and have made a big discount, but we cannot accept such a small amount.

  17. Message 017 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You need to offer more so that we can work.

  18. Message 018 From Victim Victim Date

    what about 8.5k?

  19. Message 019 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    you give us amounts that we are not interested in at all, if you want to get a decryptor you need to offer a much higher amount

  20. Message 020 From Victim Victim Date

    please give us a price we can pay so we can decide if we can move further. Mention that we are not US, our office is in greece and we just opened after 3 lockdowns. If you cannot give us an amount we can pay we will just move forward. I really don't want to waste your time.

  21. Message 021 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    we understand the current situation and are ready to make concessions to you and charge a new price of $ 60,000

  22. Message 022 From Victim Victim Date

    the price range you give is unfortunately out of reach, i guess we will proceed without your service. thank you for your support.

  23. Message 023 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    what is the maximum amount you are willing to offer us?

  24. Message 024 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Guys?

  25. Message 025 From Victim Victim Date

    Ok we are ready to pay 55k$ is it ok with you?

  26. Message 026 From Victim Victim Date

    Are you there?

  27. Message 027 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Ok

  28. Message 028 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You need to send 1.44 BTC to Bitcoin address: [redacted]

  29. Message 029 From Victim Victim Date

    I am unable to pay you? is your bitcoin address correct?

  30. Message 030 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    [redacted]

  31. Message 031 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    This address is correct.

  32. Message 032 From Victim Victim Date

    It's segwit address and due to that I believe I am getting the error

  33. Message 033 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Have you already figured out the problem? Because the address is correct, the problem is on your part.

  34. Message 034 From Victim Victim Date

    Still facing issue

  35. Message 035 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    If you yourself cannot buy, then seek help from a specialist. Because everything works from our side.

  36. Message 036 From Victim Victim Date

    hi there, i want to know if you can give us a price we can pay so we can pay you. If we delay a lot discussing and chatting there is no interest from our side to buy your service. We already have setup most things in Microsoft. Our emails are ok, oru files were recovered from offline backups but we are missing 2 databases. These contain important data but we have hardcopies of invoices. Our accountants started inputting theses invoices in the old database. We have two ways here. We can work manually and in a few weeks people will put all the invoices to our offline backups and this is 100% certain. It costs man hours but will work 100%. On the other hand we have you through a chat asking insane amounts of money and we are not certain 100% that you will help us since you don't give us your company name. We told you that we will not allocate a lot of money to that. One way is certain with delay but your way is uncertain and you are asking unrealistic amounts.

  37. Message 037 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Guys, what nonsense are you starting to say, you just tried to put $ 55k into our account and work with us, and now you start telling us tales that this is a lot of money, a lot of money is millions of dollars, and you work with us for only 55k despite the fact that we gave you a huge discount!? Did you lie to us that you tried to send money? We are a serious organization we are "Avaddon Ransomware". If you have doubts about data decryption, then on your landing page there is a "Test Decryption" section, upload an image file weighing up to 2MB and after a while you will receive a decrypted file.

  38. Message 038 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Guys, do you want us to give you the motivation to pay us?

  39. Message 039 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    :D

  40. Message 040 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Take it. We've stolen over 25GB of data from your network. What if I tell you the exact number of files? These are 50382 files!

  41. Message 041 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    If payment is not made within 24 hours, we will publish a post about the leakage of your data, make mass spam by emails of your competitors, clients, partners and tell them that all confidential data that they had associated with you was leaked through your fault. Believe me, we know how much money will be spent on investigations and lawsuits. It will be much more than 55k.

  42. Message 042 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Do you need confirmation that we have the data? This is not a problem, we will provide them to you. Just tell us to do it.

  43. Message 043 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    I hope you pay and I don’t have to tell you what else we will do with your network in case of non-payment...

  44. Message 044 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Cooperating with us, we guarantee you complete confidentiality on our part, General decryptor with which you can restore absolutely all files on your PCs / Servers, a complete tree of the files we have taken from you and confirmation of their deletion after payment. We will also point out to you the vulnerabilities in your network and give recommendations on what to do to eliminate these vulnerabilities, following our security recommendations, you will be practically invisible to hacker attacks.

  45. Message 045 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    I think the choice is obvious. I changed the time for you to 24 hours, the time has gone. Tick tock tick tock

  46. Message 046 From Victim Victim Date

    Sir we are not interested in your whole services. We cannot pay for it. Can you recover for us 2 files? Also we never told you that we can pay so high. We were willing to buy your service for 8.5k. Please lets find a way to work in this range so it has some value to us. The amount you ask is unfortunately out of reach by far.

  47. Message 047 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    these are your words "Ok we are ready to pay 55k$ is it ok with you? "

  48. Message 048 From Victim Victim Date

    no sir. I didn't say that. we cannot find that money, not even close. Although we could give you money for your service, because it will help us save time. this is 5 times more than we can afford. don't forget i told you that our office is in greece. not in the united states of america or germany. So we cannot afford your services. So if you don't help us pay, we cannot pay.

  49. Message 049 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    In the Meaning, you didn't say that? Check out our communication history above, you wrote it.

  50. Message 050 From Victim Victim Date

    sir we cannot pay 55k. 5k yes we can pay instantly for your work.

  51. Message 051 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We are not interested in this price.

  52. Message 052 From Victim Victim Date

    ok

  53. Message 053 From Victim Victim Date

    do you believe that 11000$ will work for you? i just want to see if we can help each other come to an amount that 1) can be paid 2) can be found quickly by our side, because we could be able to find some money more but we need extra time, probably a 1-2 weeks to apply for some loan. But if we delay there is no meaning for us. just let me know because we need to decide during the weekend cause i need to inform our boss to take a decision.

  54. Message 054 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    11,000 $ are not enough.

  55. Message 055 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You need to offer more if you do not want us to publish your files.

  56. Message 056 From Victim Victim Date

    the only thing we want from your service is to have our recent files back. if we agree on that and to the amount we can pay in 3-4 days because we need some days to gather 11.000$

  57. Message 057 From Victim Victim Date

    its late here. i need to go to sleep. please decide soon if you accept so we can start finding the money. every day of manual work costs about 250$, we estimated that we need about 2 months to finish manual work with invoices and update our lost data. so if you give us good price, our boss will decide to pay you for faster results.

  58. Message 058 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Guys, you do not understand, you have a lot of problems. To restore the normal mode of operation, you need a lot of time and money. If you do not pay, then you are waiting for news in our blog, we will publish a lot of your files that you will not like. You will get damage to much more than $ 55,000. We offer you a solution to all these issues for an adequate price.

  59. Message 059 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We have already made a big discount for you and are ready to work with you, but we are not satisfied with $ 11,000.

  60. Message 060 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We are ready to make a small discount for you.

  61. Message 061 From Victim Victim Date

    you constantly say other things. not interested. we just need 2 files and an amount we can pay. small discount cannot be paid. big discount from your side will be paid. just need those files faster. why you always say not satisfied? right now we can pay you 8000$, we can find another 3000-8000$ by next week. but we cannot make money appear out of nothing. clients need to pay us for us to find the money. if you cannot work with this unfortunately we cannot afford your service. please help us pay you.

  62. Message 062 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Perhaps we can go down a little lower, but the price you offer absolutely does not suit us, we have already made you a big discount, if you do not go up then there will be no deal.

  63. Message 063 From Victim Victim Date

    can we pay in installments like 5000$ for 3 weeks? please help us purchase the service. we cannot pay with money we don't have. i am trying to figure out a way to work with you, but your demands still are 3 times more than we can afford to pay.

  64. Message 064 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    take a loan or find money in some other way, if your files are important to you, then you will find money.

  65. Message 065 From Victim Victim Date

    our boss visited the bank this morning, loan will take about a week to reply to us. They cannot tell us yet if they can loan to us money. I will keep you updated. But we will need time. In the meantime let me know if we can find a way with less money so we can purchase part of your services.

  66. Message 066 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You cannot pay for only 1 decrypted file, you either buy the General Decryptor which will decrypt absolutely all your files or there will be no deal.

  67. Message 067 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We will give you additional time to search for money, and we will not publish a publication about your data leak while you are looking for money.

  68. Message 068 From Victim Victim Date

    i would like to know if we can reach an amount of 20k in 2 weeks so i can see if we can reach something like this after some time. Because everyday we pay people to input old invoices. So if we find an amount we can meet your demands or there is no chance we can reach each other demands and convenience.

  69. Message 069 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Guys, look, we will give you the last price, $ 30k, this price is no longer discussed, either you pay exactly 30k or there will be no deal and we can say goodbye to you.

  70. Message 070 From Victim Victim Date

    allow us 1 week to see if we can find the funds and when.

  71. Message 071 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Ok

  72. Message 072 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    done

  73. Message 073 From Victim Victim Date

    hi

  74. Message 074 From Victim Victim Date

    hello

  75. Message 075 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Hello, how can i help you?

  76. Message 076 From Victim Victim Date

    we have found an employee that has monero. we will buy from him today and we can pay him in installments so we will pay today to save time.

  77. Message 077 From Victim Victim Date

    please promise that when we pay you you will recover all our files and you will stop any bad actions to our network. Also you will tell us how we will secure our network in the future.

  78. Message 078 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    After you make a payment, we guarantee the anonymity of the attack. We will not disseminate information about hacking your network, no one will know that your company was attacked. We will provide global decryption that will decipher all your files throughout your network. We also delete all your data and send you evidence of deletion. In addition, we guarantee you immunity from attacks on your company in the future.

  79. Message 079 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    When will you pay?

  80. Message 080 From Victim Victim Date

    probably today.

  81. Message 081 From Victim Victim Date

    probably today

  82. Message 082 From Victim Victim Date

    We tried to decrypt this file in test decryption: [redacted].jpg.[redacted].[redacted] but it rejects it

  83. Message 083 From Victim Victim Date

    i tried to decrypt this file in test: [redacted].jpg.[redacted].[redacted]. It doesn't decrypt it.

  84. Message 084 From Victim Victim Date

    i tried to decrypt this file in test: [redacted].jpg.[redacted].[redacted]. It doesn't decrypt it.

  85. Message 085 From Victim Victim Date

    your chat has problems today. i submit my chat 10 times before it accepts it.

  86. Message 086 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Try another image with extension.jpg

  87. Message 087 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    ok sir?

  88. Message 088 From Victim Victim Date

    why try another image? What will happen to these files that have double extention? Will they be decrypted?

  89. Message 089 From Victim Victim Date

    my most important files have 2 additional extensions and they are not accepted by test decryption. I am starting to worry about your service to be honest

  90. Message 090 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    This extension is not decrypt in test decryption. In test decryption, how can you see only files with certain extensions can be decrypted. Do not worry, General Decryptor will decrypt absolutely all files on your PCs and servers.

  91. Message 091 From Victim Victim Date

    so you guarantee that all files, even files with double extention will be decrypted right?

  92. Message 092 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Of course, Sir absolutely all files will be decrypted, there will be no problems with it, we promise you.

  93. Message 093 From Victim Victim Date

    check the test decryption. i uploaded a file and it doesn't work. it doesn't open.

  94. Message 094 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Wait a bit

  95. Message 095 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    u can download your file [redacted].png

  96. Message 096 From Victim Victim Date

    file cannot open/ try to open it and send me screenshot.

  97. Message 097 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Send us 1 image file and we will decrypt. Use https://www.sendspace.com/

  98. Message 098 From Victim Victim Date

    ok. this is the file: https://www.sendspace.com/file/[redacted]

  99. Message 099 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Ok, we'll decrypt and send it to you.

  100. Message 100 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Archive: https://www.sendspace.com/file/[redacted] Password: [redacted]

  101. Message 101 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    Here is the decrypted file

  102. Message 102 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    We received $ 100 from you. You can send the rest.

  103. Message 103 From Avaddon Actor / other Date

    You can download the decryptor on your payment page, update it. Run the decryptor according to the instructions.