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DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Gelsemine

Detects Gelsemine

MalwareGelsemineditekSHen detectionBSD 2-Clause LicenseCompiles with YARA-X (with warnings)
Author
ditekSHen
Date
2020-11-06
Modified
2024-11-01
Score / Quality
75 / 75

What this rule detects

Detects Gelsemine

Associated malware family: Gelsemine.

Targets: Windows PE.

It defines 13 patterns (7 text, 6 hex, 0 regex).

YARA-X says: warning[duplicate_pattern_value]: duplicate pattern value

Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.

Rule source

malware-win-gelsemine.yarBSD 2-Clause License
rule DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Gelsemine : FILE
{
	meta:
		description = "Detects Gelsemine"
		author = "ditekSHen"
		id = "f7e9ca53-fc52-5da0-a760-cb09c2544f4f"
		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#L6174-L6194"
		license_url = "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
		logic_hash = "8c20efa6f34ee9165fac9f1f2e5eb20830a02016309dfaa5681977e1a8ac6068"
		score = 75
		quality = 75
		tags = "FILE"

	strings:
		$s1 = "If any of these steps fails.only pick one of the targets for configuration\"If you want to just get on with it*which also use [ " wide
		$s2 = "A make implementation+with core modules (please read NOTES.PER_L)2The per_l Text::Template (please read NOTES.PER_L)" wide
		$s3 = "NOTES.VMS (OpenVMS)!NOTES.WIN (any supported Windows)%NOTES.DJGPP (DOS platform with DJGPP)'NOTES.ANDROID (obviously Android [ND" wide
		$s4 = "A simple example would be this)which is to be understood as one of these" fullword wide
		$s5 = "bala bala bala" fullword wide
		$s6 = "echo FOO" fullword wide
		$s7 = "?_Tidy@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V" ascii
		$o1 = { eb 08 c7 44 24 34 fd ff ff ff 8b 44 24 54 8b 4c }
		$o2 = { eb 08 c7 44 24 34 fd ff ff ff 8b 44 24 54 8b 4c }
		$o3 = { 8b 76 08 2b f0 a1 34 ff 40 00 03 f0 89 35 38 ff }
		$o4 = { 83 c4 34 c3 8b 4e 20 6a 05 e8 73 10 00 00 8b 76 }
		$o5 = { 8b 44 24 44 2b d1 03 d0 8b f2 e9 14 ff ff ff 8d }
		$o6 = { 68 00 06 00 00 6a 00 e8 d3 ff ff ff a2 48 00 41 }

	condition:
		uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( 6 of ( $s* ) or ( all of ( $o* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) )
}

Strings (13 patterns)

IdentifierTypeValueModifiers
$s1text"If any of these steps fails.only pick one of the targets for configuration\"If you want to just get on with it*which also use [ "wide
$s2text"A make implementation+with core modules (please read NOTES.PER_L)2The per_l Text::Template (please read NOTES.PER_L)"wide
$s3text"NOTES.VMS (OpenVMS)!NOTES.WIN (any supported Windows)%NOTES.DJGPP (DOS platform with DJGPP)'NOTES.ANDROID (obviously Android [ND"wide
$s4text"A simple example would be this)which is to be understood as one of these"fullword wide
$s5text"bala bala bala"fullword wide
$s6text"echo FOO"fullword wide
$s7text"?_Tidy@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V"ascii
$o1hex{ eb 08 c7 44 24 34 fd ff ff ff 8b 44 24 54 8b 4c }
$o2hex{ eb 08 c7 44 24 34 fd ff ff ff 8b 44 24 54 8b 4c }
$o3hex{ 8b 76 08 2b f0 a1 34 ff 40 00 03 f0 89 35 38 ff }
$o4hex{ 83 c4 34 c3 8b 4e 20 6a 05 e8 73 10 00 00 8b 76 }
$o5hex{ 8b 44 24 44 2b d1 03 d0 8b f2 e9 14 ff ff ff 8d }
$o6hex{ 68 00 06 00 00 6a 00 e8 d3 ff ff ff a2 48 00 41 }

Condition

uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( 6 of ( $s* ) or ( all of ( $o* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) )

In plain words (Heuristic)

  • The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
  • All patterns in ( $o* ) must match.
  • At least 6 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
  • At least 2 patterns in ( $s* ) 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).

Original rule

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

Rule id: f7e9ca53-fc52-5da0-a760-cb09c2544f4f

Tags:FILE