Ransomware simulator: Ransomware simulator written in Golang

by do son · May 16, 2022

Ransomware Simulator

The goal of this repository is to provide a simple, harmless way to check your AV’s protection on ransomware.

This tool simulates typical ransomware behaviour, such as:

Staging from a Word document macro
Deleting Volume Shadow Copies
Encrypting documents (embedded and dropped by the simulator into a new folder)
Dropping a ransomware note to the user’s desktop

The ransomware simulator takes no action that actually encrypts pre-existing files on the device, or deletes Volume Shadow Copies. However, any AV products looking for such behaviour should still hopefully trigger.

Each step, as listed above, can also be disabled via a command-line flag. This allows you to check responses to later steps as well, even if an AV already detects earlier steps.