YARA rules for Sidewinder
7 rules from 5 sources detect Sidewinder. Rules are ranked by YARA-X compatibility, licence (full text first), score and quality. Mostly: APT / threat actor, Malware.
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Detects SideWinder final payload
APT / threat actorSignature Base (Florian Roth / Nextron)· AT&T Alien Labs· 2020-08-25Detected the NET loader used by SideWinder group (August 2020)
APT / threat actorSignature Base (Florian Roth / Nextron)· Arkbird_SOLG· 2020-08-24autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
MalwareMalpedia signator rules· Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com· 2026-05-04Detect the SideWinder malware
MalwareSEKOIA.IO Community· Sekoia.io· 2022-10-24- CLUSTER25_Sidewinder_Apt_Rtf_Cve_2017_0199Metadata only
No description has been set in the source file - Cluster25
APT / threat actorCluster25 (via Open-Source-YARA-rules)· Cluster25· 2021-09-09 - ARKBIRD_SOLG_APT_Sidewinder_Nov_2020_1Metadata only
Detect Sidewinder DLL decoder algorithm
APT / threat actorArkbird SOLG (DailyIOC)· Arkbird_SOLG· 2020-11-14 - ARKBIRD_SOLG_APT_Sidewinder_NET_Loader_Aug_2020_1Metadata only
Detected the NET loader used by SideWinder group (August 2020)
APT / threat actorArkbird SOLG (DailyIOC)· Arkbird_SOLG· 2020-08-24