YARA · ditekSHen detection
DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Deathransom
Detects known DeathRansom ransomware
- Author
- ditekSHen
- Date
- 2020-11-06
- Modified
- 2024-11-01
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 75
What this rule detects
Detects known DeathRansom ransomware
Associated malware family: Deathransom.
Targets: Windows PE.
It defines 10 patterns (10 text, 0 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
malware-win-deathransom.yarBSD 2-Clause License
rule DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Deathransom : FILE
{
meta:
= "Detects known DeathRansom ransomware"
= "ditekSHen"
= "a6eeb607-8b5c-5982-8b5a-aa2b3c6a65e6"
= "2020-11-06"
= "2024-11-01"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/yara/malware.yar#L5908-L5925"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
= "3c87364a7ecc403262056eeccaa16bf230fbbe684e21d35099d0d572abba9eda"
= 75
= 75
= "FILE"
strings:
$s1 = "%s %f %c" fullword ascii
$pdb1 = ":\\wud.pdb" ascii
$spdb2 = "\\crypt_server\\runtime\\crypt" ascii
$spdb3 = "\\bin\\nuvin.pdb" ascii
$h1 = "#Dunubeyokunov" wide
$h2 = "^Neyot dehipijakeyelih" wide
$h3 = "talin%Sanovurenofibiw" wide
$h4 = "WriteFile" fullword ascii
$h5 = "ClearEventLogA" fullword ascii
$h6 = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0" ascii wide
condition:
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( all of ( $pdb* ) or ( all of ( $s* ) and 1 of ( $pdb* ) ) or 5 of ( $h* ) )
}
Strings (10 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $s1 | text | "%s %f %c" | fullword ascii |
| $pdb1 | text | ":\\wud.pdb" | ascii |
| $spdb2 | text | "\\crypt_server\\runtime\\crypt" | ascii |
| $spdb3 | text | "\\bin\\nuvin.pdb" | ascii |
| $h1 | text | "#Dunubeyokunov" | wide |
| $h2 | text | "^Neyot dehipijakeyelih" | wide |
| $h3 | text | "talin%Sanovurenofibiw" | wide |
| $h4 | text | "WriteFile" | fullword ascii |
| $h5 | text | "ClearEventLogA" | fullword ascii |
| $h6 | text | "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0" | ascii wide |
Condition
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( all of ( $pdb* ) or ( all of ( $s* ) and 1 of ( $pdb* ) ) or 5 of ( $h* ) )In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
- All patterns in ( $pdb* ) must match.
- All patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $pdb* ) must match.
- At least 5 patterns in ( $h* ) 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: a6eeb607-8b5c-5982-8b5a-aa2b3c6a65e6
Tags:FILE
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