What I've Done:

9/20:

• Researched ransomware python script concepts
• Researched asymmetric encryption concepts for python

9/27:

• Worked on creating python code for ransomware script and key generation.

10/2:

• Worked on python script and fixing errors

10/3:

• Worked on python script and fixing errors

Tribulations/Lessons Learned:

While working on this project there have been many frustrating situations but also many learning experiences. I've had experiences writing python code before but not to a large extent as to what the ransomware script required. I felt that while creating the script it helped me learn more about python and creating ransomware itself. There were also times when the VM itself just broke for no reason. For example the account that we were using for the ransomware script just completely broke and wasn't working at all. We tried to create a new account and then it wouldn't let us log into the new one. So we removed the user but it didn't delete all the user data so we had to go in and delete the home directory for it. The network adapter on the VM also broke somehow and the network had to be fixed.