YARA · ditekSHen detection
DITEKSHEN_INDICATOR_TOOL_Pplblade
Detects PPLBlade Protected Process Dumper Tool that support obfuscating memory dump and transferring it on remote workstations without dropping it onto the disk
- Author
- ditekSHen
- Date
- 2020-11-06
- Modified
- 2024-09-25
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 75
What this rule detects
Detects PPLBlade Protected Process Dumper Tool that support obfuscating memory dump and transferring it on remote workstations without dropping it onto the disk
Targets: Windows PE.
It defines 17 patterns (17 text, 0 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
rule DITEKSHEN_INDICATOR_TOOL_Pplblade : FILE
{
meta:
= "Detects PPLBlade Protected Process Dumper Tool that support obfuscating memory dump and transferring it on remote workstations without dropping it onto the disk"
= "ditekSHen"
= "60c9b036-51a0-5e08-83de-1f69f62245c3"
= "2020-11-06"
= "2024-09-25"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/yara/indicator_tools.yar#L1634-L1658"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
= "da21402b07fcd0358ba630e48ab35956cb7ed8c12836a339c85b2ee5e414543e"
= 75
= 75
= "FILE"
strings:
$x1 = "PPLBlade" ascii
$x2 = "/PPLBlade/" ascii
$x3 = "PPLBlade.exe --mode" ascii
$x4 = "PPLBLADE.SYSPPLBlade.dmp" ascii
$s1 = "Dump bytes sent at %s:%d. Protocol: %s" ascii
$s2 = "Deobfuscated dump saved in file %s" ascii
$m1 = "main.WriteDriverOnDisk" ascii
$m2 = "main.ProcExpOpenProc" ascii
$m3 = "main.miniDumpCallback" ascii
$m4 = "main.copyDumpBytes" ascii
$m5 = "main.MiniDumpGetBytes" ascii
$m6 = "main.SendBytesRaw" ascii
$m7 = "main.SendBytesSMB" ascii
$m8 = "main.DeobfuscateDump" ascii
$m9 = "main.dumpMutex" ascii
$m10 = "main.dbghelpDLL" ascii
$m11 = "main.miniDumpWriteDump" ascii
condition:
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( 3 of ( $x* ) or ( 1 of ( $x* ) and ( 1 of ( $s* ) or 3 of ( $m* ) ) ) or ( all of ( $s* ) and 3 of ( $m* ) ) or ( 7 of ( $m* ) ) )
}
Strings (17 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $x1 | text | "PPLBlade" | ascii |
| $x2 | text | "/PPLBlade/" | ascii |
| $x3 | text | "PPLBlade.exe --mode" | ascii |
| $x4 | text | "PPLBLADE.SYSPPLBlade.dmp" | ascii |
| $s1 | text | "Dump bytes sent at %s:%d. Protocol: %s" | ascii |
| $s2 | text | "Deobfuscated dump saved in file %s" | ascii |
| $m1 | text | "main.WriteDriverOnDisk" | ascii |
| $m2 | text | "main.ProcExpOpenProc" | ascii |
| $m3 | text | "main.miniDumpCallback" | ascii |
| $m4 | text | "main.copyDumpBytes" | ascii |
| $m5 | text | "main.MiniDumpGetBytes" | ascii |
| $m6 | text | "main.SendBytesRaw" | ascii |
| $m7 | text | "main.SendBytesSMB" | ascii |
| $m8 | text | "main.DeobfuscateDump" | ascii |
| $m9 | text | "main.dumpMutex" | ascii |
| $m10 | text | "main.dbghelpDLL" | ascii |
| $m11 | text | "main.miniDumpWriteDump" | ascii |
Condition
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( 3 of ( $x* ) or ( 1 of ( $x* ) and ( 1 of ( $s* ) or 3 of ( $m* ) ) ) or ( all of ( $s* ) and 3 of ( $m* ) ) or ( 7 of ( $m* ) ) )In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
- All patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 3 patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 3 patterns in ( $m* ) must match.
- At least 7 patterns in ( $m* ) must match.
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References
Licence & attribution
Author: ditekSHen
Source repository: ditekSHen detection @ e76c93dcde
Licence: BSD 2-Clause License (repository licence)
Copyright notice: Copyright 2021 by ditekSHen (https://github.com/ditekshen/detection).
Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.
Rule id: 60c9b036-51a0-5e08-83de-1f69f62245c3
Tags:FILE
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