YARA · ditekSHen detection
DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Netwire
Detects NetWire RAT
- Author
- ditekSHen
- Date
- 2020-11-06
- Modified
- 2024-11-01
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 75
What this rule detects
Detects NetWire RAT
Associated malware family: Netwire.
Targets: Windows PE.
It defines 15 patterns (14 text, 1 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
malware-win-netwire.yarBSD 2-Clause License
rule DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Netwire : FILE
{
meta:
= "Detects NetWire RAT"
= "ditekSHen"
= "c215f449-c725-51da-8f5b-2619bc282b22"
= "2020-11-06"
= "2024-11-01"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/yara/malware.yar#L4783-L4805"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
= "bae4f0cd7a431336bd784ba95f6ba3396e6f0f12c081e62482ad37ff859c1f1c"
= 75
= 75
= "FILE"
strings:
$x1 = "SOFTWARE\\NetWire" fullword ascii
$x2 = { 4e 65 74 57 69 72 65 00 53 4f 46 54 57 41 52 45 5c 00 }
$s1 = "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" fullword ascii
$s2 = "filenames.txt" fullword ascii
$s3 = "GET %s HTTP/1.1" fullword ascii
$s4 = "[%.2d/%.2d/%d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d]" fullword ascii
$s5 = "Host.exe" fullword ascii
$s6 = "-m \"%s\"" fullword ascii
$g1 = "HostId" fullword ascii
$g2 = "History" fullword ascii
$g3 = "encrypted_key" fullword ascii
$g4 = "Install Date" fullword ascii
$g5 = "hostname" fullword ascii
$g6 = "encryptedUsername" fullword ascii
$g7 = "encryptedPassword" fullword ascii
condition:
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( all of ( $s* ) or all of ( $x* ) or ( 1 of ( $x* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) or ( all of ( $g* ) and ( 2 of ( $s* ) or 1 of ( $x* ) ) ) )
}
Strings (15 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $x1 | text | "SOFTWARE\\NetWire" | fullword ascii |
| $x2 | hex | { 4e 65 74 57 69 72 65 00 53 4f 46 54 57 41 52 45 5c 00 } | |
| $s1 | text | "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" | fullword ascii |
| $s2 | text | "filenames.txt" | fullword ascii |
| $s3 | text | "GET %s HTTP/1.1" | fullword ascii |
| $s4 | text | "[%.2d/%.2d/%d %.2d:%.2d:%.2d]" | fullword ascii |
| $s5 | text | "Host.exe" | fullword ascii |
| $s6 | text | "-m \"%s\"" | fullword ascii |
| $g1 | text | "HostId" | fullword ascii |
| $g2 | text | "History" | fullword ascii |
| $g3 | text | "encrypted_key" | fullword ascii |
| $g4 | text | "Install Date" | fullword ascii |
| $g5 | text | "hostname" | fullword ascii |
| $g6 | text | "encryptedUsername" | fullword ascii |
| $g7 | text | "encryptedPassword" | fullword ascii |
Condition
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( all of ( $s* ) or all of ( $x* ) or ( 1 of ( $x* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) or ( all of ( $g* ) and ( 2 of ( $s* ) or 1 of ( $x* ) ) ) )In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
- All patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- All patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
- All patterns in ( $g* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $x* ) 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).
Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.
Rule id: c215f449-c725-51da-8f5b-2619bc282b22
Tags:FILE
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