PAYLOAD Ransomware ELF Binary Targeting ESXi VMDK Encryption
Detects the presence of PAYLOAD ransomware ELF binaries specifically configured to target VMware ESXi environments. The detection logic looks for a combination of ELF magic bytes, the 'PAYLOAD' string, references to common virtual machine file extensions (e.g., .vmdk, .vmx), and usage of ESXi-specific administration tools such as esxcli or vim-cmd.
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