ELITTE87 Virus 🔐 (.ELITTE87 Files) — How to Remove?

The Elitte87 virus belongs under the Phobos ransomware family. Malware of this type encrypts all the data on your computer (images, text files, excel tables, music, videos, etc) and appends its specific extension to every file, creating the info.txt files in every directory containing encrypted files.

Elitte87 virus: what is known so far?

☝️ Elitte87 is a Phobos family ransomware malicious agent.

The scheme of renaming is the following: id[xxxxxx].[contact-email].ELITTE87. After the encryption, a file entitled, for instance, “report.docx” will be renamed to “report.docx.id[9ECFA84E-3492].[[email protected]].ELITTE87”.

In every folder containing the encrypted files, a info.txt text document will be created. It is a ransom money memo. Therein you can find information on the ways of paying the ransom and some other remarks. The ransom note most probably contains instructions on how to buy the decryption tool from the racketeers. You can get this tool after contacting [email protected] via email. That is how they do it.

Elitte87 Overview:

The info.txt file accompanying the Elitte87 malware states the following:

Your data is encrypted and downloaded!

Unlocking your data is possible only with our software.
Important! An attempt to decrypt it yourself or decrypt it with third-party software will result in the loss of your data forever.
Contacting intermediary companies, recovery companies will create the risk of losing your data forever or being deceived by these companies.
Being deceived is your responsibility! Learn the experience on the forums.

Downloaded data of your company.

Data leakage is a serious violation of the law. Don\'t worry, the incident will remain a secret, the data is protected.
After the transaction is completed, all data downloaded from you will be deleted from our resources. Government agencies, competitors, contractors and local media
not aware of the incident.
Also, we guarantee that your company\'s personal data will not be sold on DArkWeb resources and will not be used to attack your company, employees
and counterparties in the future.
If you have not contacted within 2 days from the moment of the incident, we will consider the transaction not completed.
Your data will be sent to all interested parties. This is your responsibility.

Contact us.

Write us to the e-mail:[email protected]
In case of no answer in 24 hours write us to this e-mail:[email protected]
Write this ID in the title of your message: -
If you have not contacted within 2 days from the moment of the incident, we will consider the transaction not completed.
Your data will be sent to all interested parties. This is your responsibility.


Do not rename encrypted files
Do not try to decrypt your data using third party software, it may cause permanent data loss.
Decryption of your files with the help of third parties may cause increased price (they add their fee to our) or you can become a victim of a scam.

In the screenshot below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Elitte87 looks like. Each filename has the “.ELITTE87” extension appended to it.

How did my machine catch Elitte87 ransomware?

There is a huge number of possible ways of ransomware injection.

Nowadays, there are three most exploited methods for criminals to have ransomware acting in your system. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer-to-peer file transfer.

• Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan virus scheme. A Trojan is an object that gets into your machine disguised as something legal. Imagine, you download an installer of some program you want or an update for some software. However, what is unboxed reveals itself a harmful agent that encrypts your data. As the update package can have any title and any icon, you’d better be sure that you can trust the source of the files 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 danger 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. So you’d better be using trustworthy resources. Also, it is a good idea to scan the folder containing the downloaded items with the anti-malware utility as soon as the downloading is finished.

How do I get rid of ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your files, the Elitte87 virus will most likely deploy Vidar Stealer on your computer to seize your credentials to different accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). That program can derive your credentials from your browser’s auto-filling cardfile.

How do I avert ransomware attack?

Elitte87 ransomware has no superpower, so as any similar malware.

You can defend your computer from ransomware infiltration taking several easy steps:

• Ignore any emails from unknown senders with strange addresses, or with content that has nothing to do with something you are expecting (how can you win in a lottery without even taking part in it?). If the email subject is more or less something you are expecting, scrutinize all elements of the dubious letter with caution. A fake email will surely contain mistakes.
• Do not use cracked or untrusted programs. Trojan viruses are often spreaded as a part of cracked products, most likely under the guise of “patch” which prevents the license check. Understandably, dubious programs are difficult to tell from reliable ones, as trojans sometimes have the functionality you need. Try to find information on this software product on the anti-malware forums, but the optimal solution is not to use such programs at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 Are the “.ELITTE87” files accessible?

Negative. That is why ransomware is so frustrating. Until you decode the “.ELITTE87” files you will not be able to access them.

🤔 I really need to decrypt those “.ELITTE87” files ASAP. How can I do that?

If the “.ELITTE87” files contain some really important information, then you probably have them backed up. Otherwise, you might try to employ System Restore. The only question is whether you have saved any Restore Points that would be helpful now. The rest of the methods require patience.

🤔 What should I do if the Elitte87 malware has blocked my PC and I can’t get the activation key.

🤔 What can I do right now?

Some of the encrypted files can be found elsewhere.

• If you exchanged your important files via email, you could still download them from your online mailbox.
• You may have shared photographs or videos with your friends or relatives. Just ask them to send those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially downloaded any of your files from the Web, you can try downloading them again.
• Your messengers, social networks pages, and cloud drives might have all those files as well.
• It might be that you still have the needed files on your old computer, a portable device, phone, memory stick, etc.

USEFUL TIP: You can employ file recovery utilities² to get your lost data back since ransomware encrypts the copies of your files, removing the original ones. In the tutorial below, you can see how to use PhotoRec for such a recovery, but be advised: you won’t be able to do it before you remove the ransomware itself with an antivirus program.

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