/* Yara Rule Set Author: Florian Roth Date: 2016-04-18 Identifier: FourElementSword Reference: https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/ */ /* Rule Set ----------------------------------------------------------------- */ rule FourElementSword_Config_File { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "f05cd0353817bf6c2cab396181464c31c352d6dea07e2d688def261dd6542b27" id = "488a2344-3d8d-5769-aca8-9e14f38f5eb0" strings: $s0 = "01,,hccutils.dll,2" fullword ascii $s1 = "RegisterDlls=OurDll" fullword ascii $s2 = "[OurDll]" fullword ascii $s3 = "[DefaultInstall]" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 16 times */ $s4 = "Signature=\"$Windows NT$\"" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 26 times */ condition: 4 of them } rule FourElementSword_T9000 { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "5f3d0a319ecc875cc64a40a34d2283cb329abcf79ad02f487fbfd6bef153943c" id = "35ae844e-52e1-5e6f-984d-aa75ebd2f60f" strings: $x1 = "D:\\WORK\\T9000\\" ascii $x2 = "%s\\temp\\HHHH.dat" fullword wide $s1 = "Elevate.dll" fullword wide $s2 = "ResN32.dll" fullword wide $s3 = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" fullword wide $s4 = "igfxtray.exe" fullword wide condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 500KB and 1 of ($x*) ) or ( all of them ) } rule FourElementSword_32DLL { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "7a200c4df99887991c638fe625d07a4a3fc2bdc887112437752b3df5c8da79b6" id = "fc801364-9f40-50eb-90e1-99f8605014c7" strings: $x1 = "%temp%\\tmp092.tmp" fullword ascii $s1 = "\\System32\\ctfmon.exe" ascii $s2 = "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\" ascii $s3 = "32.dll" fullword ascii condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 660KB and $x1 ) or ( all of them ) } rule FourElementSword_Keyainst_EXE { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "cf717a646a015ee72f965488f8df2dd3c36c4714ccc755c295645fe8d150d082" id = "175fe2b0-3c76-5464-9a1a-218a09b25a5a" strings: $x1 = "C:\\ProgramData\\Keyainst.exe" fullword ascii $s1 = "ShellExecuteA" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 266 times */ $s2 = "GetStartupInfoA" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 2573 times */ $s3 = "SHELL32.dll" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 3233 times */ condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 48KB and $x1 ) or ( all of them ) } rule FourElementSword_ElevateDLL_2 { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "9c23febc49c7b17387767844356d38d5578727ee1150956164883cf555fe7f95" id = "06879d75-18a3-5d49-a963-fa4bee379387" strings: $s1 = "Elevate.dll" fullword ascii $s2 = "GetSomeF" fullword ascii $s3 = "GetNativeSystemInfo" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 530 times */ condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 25KB and $s1 ) or ( all of them ) } rule FourElementSword_fslapi_dll_gui { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "2a6ef9dde178c4afe32fe676ff864162f104d85fac2439986de32366625dc083" id = "1cc73eaf-7463-5070-97e5-6ea4c7735371" strings: $s1 = "fslapi.dll.gui" fullword wide $s2 = "ImmGetDefaultIMEWnd" fullword ascii /* Goodware String - occured 64 times */ $s3 = "RichOX" fullword ascii condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 12KB and all of them ) } rule FourElementSword_PowerShell_Start { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "9b6053e784c5762fdb9931f9064ba6e52c26c2d4b09efd6ff13ca87bbb33c692" id = "62affc03-a408-5d8f-99da-58dead8646c5" strings: $s0 = "start /min powershell C:\\\\ProgramData\\\\wget.exe" ascii $s1 = "start /min powershell C:\\\\ProgramData\\\\iuso.exe" fullword ascii condition: 1 of them } rule FourElementSword_ResN32DLL { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" hash = "bf1b00b7430899d33795ef3405142e880ef8dcbda8aab0b19d80875a14ed852f" id = "3e1f6d8d-53ea-542f-ba49-39b4c86f3124" strings: $s1 = "\\Release\\BypassUAC.pdb" ascii $s2 = "\\ResN32.dll" wide $s3 = "Eupdate" fullword wide condition: all of them } /* Super Rules ------------------------------------------------------------- */ rule FourElementSword_ElevateDLL { meta: description = "Detects FourElementSword Malware" license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE" author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)" reference = "https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/four-element-sword-engagement/" date = "2016-04-18" super_rule = 1 hash1 = "3dfc94605daf51ebd7bbccbb3a9049999f8d555db0999a6a7e6265a7e458cab9" hash2 = "5f3d0a319ecc875cc64a40a34d2283cb329abcf79ad02f487fbfd6bef153943c" id = "06879d75-18a3-5d49-a963-fa4bee379387" strings: $x1 = "Elevate.dll" fullword wide $x2 = "ResN32.dll" fullword wide $s1 = "Kingsoft\\Antivirus" fullword wide $s2 = "KasperskyLab\\protected" fullword wide $s3 = "Sophos" fullword wide condition: ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 500KB and 1 of ($x*) and all of ($s*) ) or ( all of them ) }