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DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Actionrat

Detects ActionRAT, CSharp and Delfi variants

MalwareAction RatditekSHen detectionBSD 2-Clause LicenseCompiles with YARA-X
Author
ditekSHen
Date
2020-11-06
Modified
2024-11-01
Score / Quality
75 / 71

What this rule detects

Detects ActionRAT, CSharp and Delfi variants

Associated malware family: Action Rat.

Targets: Windows PE.

It defines 26 patterns (23 text, 0 hex, 3 regex).

Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.

Rule source

malware-win-actionrat.yarBSD 2-Clause License
rule DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Actionrat : FILE
{
	meta:
		description = "Detects ActionRAT, CSharp and Delfi variants"
		author = "ditekSHen"
		id = "ceb4bd65-85c0-5614-a7cb-8f3f2f849eae"
		date = "2020-11-06"
		modified = "2024-11-01"
		reference = "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection"
		source_url = "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/yara/malware.yar#L6922-L6955"
		license_url = "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
		logic_hash = "1552cda3f02c08582e3dd97df98416635a25005081627097df181bfc6aac4665"
		score = 75
		quality = 71
		tags = "FILE"

	strings:
		$x1 = /<action>(connect|command|drives|getfiles|upload|execute|download)<action>/ fullword wide
		$x2 = "aHR0cDovLzE0NC45MS42NS4xMDAv" wide
		$x3 = "aHR0cDovL21mYWhvc3QuZGRucy5uZXQv" wide
		$f1 = "<updateCommand>b__" ascii
		$f2 = "<getDrives>b__" ascii
		$f3 = "<getStatus>b__" ascii
		$f4 = "<getDirectories>b__" ascii
		$f5 = "<updateUpload>b__" ascii
		$f6 = "<infinity>b__" ascii
		$f7 = "<uploadFile>b__" ascii
		$s1 = "beaconURL" ascii
		$s2 = "PingReply" ascii
		$s3 = "updateUpload" ascii
		$s4 = "updateCommand" ascii
		$s5 = "runCommand" ascii
		$s6 = "uploadFile" ascii
		$s7 = "SELECT * FROM MSFT_NetAdapter WHERE ConnectorPresent = True AND DeviceID = '{0}'" fullword wide
		$s8 = "SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion" fullword wide
		$s9 = "Mozilla/3.0" fullword wide
		$s10 = "|directory|N/A|" fullword wide
		$s11 = "cmd.exe /c" fullword wide
		$c1 = /Content-Disposition: form-data; name=(hostname|hid|id|action|secondary)/ fullword wide
		$c2 = /(classification|updatecs|update|beacon)\.php/ wide
		$c3 = "Content-Disposition: form-data;name=\"{0}\";filename=\"{1}\"filepath=\"{2}\"" fullword wide
		$pdb1 = "D:\\Projects\\C#\\HTTP-Simple\\WindowsMediaPlayer - HTTP - " ascii
		$pdb2 = "\\WindowsMediaPlayer10\\obj\\x86\\Release\\winow4.pdb" ascii

	condition:
		uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( #x1 > 5 or ( all of ( $f* ) and ( 1 of ( $s* ) or 2 of ( $c* ) ) ) or 7 of ( $s* ) or all of ( $c* ) or ( all of ( $pdb* ) and 4 of them ) or ( 2 of ( $x* ) and 5 of them ) )
}

Strings (26 patterns)

IdentifierTypeValueModifiers
$x1regex/<action>(connect|command|drives|getfiles|upload|execute|download)<action>/fullword wide
$x2text"aHR0cDovLzE0NC45MS42NS4xMDAv"wide
$x3text"aHR0cDovL21mYWhvc3QuZGRucy5uZXQv"wide
$f1text"<updateCommand>b__"ascii
$f2text"<getDrives>b__"ascii
$f3text"<getStatus>b__"ascii
$f4text"<getDirectories>b__"ascii
$f5text"<updateUpload>b__"ascii
$f6text"<infinity>b__"ascii
$f7text"<uploadFile>b__"ascii
$s1text"beaconURL"ascii
$s2text"PingReply"ascii
$s3text"updateUpload"ascii
$s4text"updateCommand"ascii
$s5text"runCommand"ascii
$s6text"uploadFile"ascii
$s7text"SELECT * FROM MSFT_NetAdapter WHERE ConnectorPresent = True AND DeviceID = '{0}'"fullword wide
$s8text"SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion"fullword wide
$s9text"Mozilla/3.0"fullword wide
$s10text"|directory|N/A|"fullword wide
$s11text"cmd.exe /c"fullword wide
$c1regex/Content-Disposition: form-data; name=(hostname|hid|id|action|secondary)/fullword wide
$c2regex/(classification|updatecs|update|beacon)\.php/wide
$c3text"Content-Disposition: form-data;name=\"{0}\";filename=\"{1}\"filepath=\"{2}\""fullword wide
$pdb1text"D:\\Projects\\C#\\HTTP-Simple\\WindowsMediaPlayer - HTTP - "ascii
$pdb2text"\\WindowsMediaPlayer10\\obj\\x86\\Release\\winow4.pdb"ascii

Condition

uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( #x1 > 5 or ( all of ( $f* ) and ( 1 of ( $s* ) or 2 of ( $c* ) ) ) or 7 of ( $s* ) or all of ( $c* ) or ( all of ( $pdb* ) and 4 of them ) or ( 2 of ( $x* ) and 5 of them ) )

In plain words (Heuristic)

  • The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
  • All patterns in ( $f* ) must match.
  • All patterns in ( $c* ) must match.
  • All patterns in ( $pdb* ) must match.
  • At least 1 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
  • At least 2 patterns in ( $c* ) must match.
  • At least 7 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
  • At least 4 patterns in the rule must match.
  • At least 2 patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
  • At least 5 patterns in the rule must match.
  • Pattern $x1 must occur > 5 times.

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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).

Original rule

Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.

Rule id: ceb4bd65-85c0-5614-a7cb-8f3f2f849eae

Tags:FILE

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