YARA rules for Plugx
7 rules from 4 sources detect Plugx. Rules are ranked by YARA-X compatibility, licence (full text first), score and quality. Mostly: Malware, APT / threat actor.
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Detects MustangPanda malicious DLL
APT / threat actorSEKOIA.IO Community· Sekoia.io· 2023-12-18autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
MalwareMalpedia signator rules· Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com· 2026-05-04Detects encrypted plugx config with a specific size
MalwareSEKOIA.IO Community· Sekoia.io· 2023-07-04- ARKBIRD_SOLG_Mal_Plugx_Thor_July_2021_1Metadata only
Detect Thor variant of PlugX (Variant 1)
MalwareArkbird SOLG (DailyIOC)· Arkbird_SOLG· 2021-07-27 - SECUINFRA_MALWARE_Plugx_USB_Delivery_Ini_Icon_Jun23Metadata only
Detects PlugX-style Malware delivery via removable Drives (USB) - Desktop.ini Icon File; could potentially yield FPs
MalwareSecuInfra Falcon Team· SECUINFRA Falcon Team (@SI_FalconTeam)· 2023-06-21 Detects PlugX-style Malware delivery via removable Drives (USB) - Desktop.ini Recycle Bin; could potentially yield FPs
MalwareSecuInfra Falcon Team· SECUINFRA Falcon Team (@SI_FalconTeam)· 2023-06-21- SECUINFRA_MALWARE_Plugx_USB_Delivery_LNK_Jun23Metadata only
Detects PlugX-style Malware delivery via removable Drives (USB) - LNK File
MalwareSecuInfra Falcon Team· SECUINFRA Falcon Team (@SI_FalconTeam)· 2023-06-21