This is how ransomware can work as far as I understand:
Most ransomware works with symmetric encryption on individual files. For each file the script generates a new key. A list is then generated containing all the file-paths with their respective keys.
This list is then asymmetrically encrypted. The victim has to pay for the private key to decrypt the master list.
The malware then reads the list to unlock all the files.
Is knowledge of part of this list (all the file-paths) helpful in finding the private key?