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

The Hyj virus belongs to the Xorist ransomware family. A harmful program of such sort encrypts all the data on your computer (images, documents, excel tables, audio files, videos, etc) and appends its extra extension to every file, leaving the КАК РАСШИФРОВАТЬ ФАЙЛЫ.txt files in every folder which contains the encrypted files.

What is Hyj virus?

☝️ Hyj is a Xorist family ransomware-type malicious agent.

Hyj will append its specific .hyj extension to every file’s name. For example, a file named “photo.jpg” will be altered to “photo.jpg.hyj”. In the same manner, the Excel file with the name “table.xlsx” will be renamed to “table.xlsx.hyj”, and so forth.

In every folder containing the encoded files, a КАК РАСШИФРОВАТЬ ФАЙЛЫ.txt text document will be found. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information about the ways of paying the ransom and some other remarks. The ransom note usually contains a description of how to purchase the decryption tool from the racketeers. You can get this decoding tool after contacting [email protected] through email. That is how they do it.

Hyj Summary:

The КАК РАСШИФРОВАТЬ ФАЙЛЫ.txt file coming in package with the Hyj ransomware provides the following frustrating information:

Ваши файлы были зашифрованны. Для того что бы расшифровать свои файлы, Вам необходимо написать нам, на адрес почты, который указан ниже.


[email protected]


Ждем ответа , если не получим ответа , удаляем ключи расшифровки Ваших файлов


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

How did my machine catch Hyj ransomware?

There are many possible ways of ransomware infiltration.

Nowadays, there are three most popular methods for evil-doers to have ransomware planted in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer networks.

• Another thing the hackers might try is a Trojan virus model. A Trojan is a program that infiltrates into your PC pretending to be something else. For example, you download an installer of some program you want or an update for some service. But what is unpacked turns out to be a harmful program that corrupts your data. As the update file can have any name and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the resource of the stuff you’re downloading. The best way is to trust the software companies’ official websites.
• As for the peer-to-peer networks like torrents or eMule, the danger is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Internet. 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 directory containing the downloaded items with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is done.

How do I get rid of ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your data, the Hyj virus will most likely install Vidar Stealer on your PC to get access to credentials to various accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). That program can derive your credentials from your browser’s auto-filling cardfile.

How сan I avoid ransomware infiltration?

Hyj ransomware has no endless power, so as any similar malware.

You can protect your system from its attack in three easy steps:

• Ignore any emails from unknown senders with strange addresses, or with content that has nothing to do with something you are waiting for (can you win in a money prize draw without participating in it?). If the email subject is likely something you are expecting, check all elements of the suspicious email with caution. A hoax email will surely contain a mistake.
• Avoid using cracked or untrusted programs. Trojans are often distributed as a part of cracked products, possibly under the guise of “patch” to prevent the license check. But dubious programs are difficult to distinguish from reliable software, as trojans may also have the functionality you need. You can try to find information on this program on the anti-malware forums, but the best way is not to use such programs at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 How can I open “.hyj” files?Is it possible to open“.hyj” files?

Unfortunately, no. You need to decipher the “.hyj” files first. Then you will be able to open them.

🤔 What should I do to make my files accessible as fast as possible?

It’s good if you have fаr-sightedly saved copies of these important files elsewhere. If not, there is still a function of System Restore but it needs a Restore Point to be previously saved. There are other ways to beat ransomware, but they take time.

🤔 What actions should I take if the Hyj malware has blocked my computer and I can’t get the activation code.

🤔 What could help the situation right now?

Some of the encrypted files can be found elsewhere.

• If you exchanged your critical files through email, you could still download them from your online mailbox.
• You might have shared photographs or videos with your friends or relatives. Simply ask them to post those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially got any of your files from the Internet, you can try to do it again.
• Your messengers, social media pages, and cloud disks might have all those files as well.
• It might be that you still have the needed files on your old PC, a notebook, mobile, external storage, etc.

HINT: You can employ data recovery utilities² to retrieve your lost information since ransomware blocks the copies of your files, deleting the authentic ones. In the tutorial below, you can learn how to use PhotoRec for such a recovery, but remember: you won’t be able to do it before you remove the virus with an antivirus program.

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