WCRY Converter

Extract text from WannaCry encrypted files (WCRY)


Drop or upload your .WCRY file
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How to extract text from your WCRY file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WCRY file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WCRY to another file type

To convert WCRY encrypted files to another format, you need wanakiwi or other Encoded software.

Convert a file to WCRY

To convert other file formats to the "Ransomware Encrypted File" file type, you need software like wanakiwi or a similar tool.


About WCRY files

A .WCRY file is a data file maliciously encrypted by the WannaCry ransomware worm. It contains a user's original data, such as databases or images, locked behind military-grade AES and RSA encryption. You cannot open these files with standard applications; security researchers created specialized tools like wanakiwi to extract decryption keys from memory, detailed further on the WannaCry ransomware attack Wikipedia page. Users desperately need to convert or restore these files because their personal or business data is held hostage, rendering the current format completely inaccessible and unusable. The ideal target format is simply the file's original extension, such as DOCX, JPG, or PDF, returning the data to its pre-infection state. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because it is a maliciously encrypted container designed specifically to block access without a private decryption key. Standard online converters fail entirely to process it because they cannot bypass the cryptographic lock. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WCRY file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert WCRY file to BASE64, HEX, BIN, ENC, CRYPT, AES, DES, RSA, PGP, GPG, ASC or KEY, you can use wanakiwi or similar software from the "Ransomware Encrypted Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert CER, BIN, PEM, DER, KEY, P7S, PFX, ENC, P12, BASE64, P7B or HEX files to WCRY, try wanakiwi or another comparable tool in the "Ransomware Encrypted Data Storage" category.



The WCRY Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WCRY converter.