YARA · ditekSHen detection
DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Nworm
Detects NWorm/N-W0rm payload
- Author
- ditekSHen
- Date
- 2020-11-06
- Modified
- 2024-11-01
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 75
What this rule detects
Detects NWorm/N-W0rm payload
Associated malware family: Nworm.
Targets: Windows PE.
It defines 12 patterns (12 text, 0 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
malware-win-nworm.yarBSD 2-Clause License
rule DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Nworm : FILE
{
meta:
= "Detects NWorm/N-W0rm payload"
= "ditekSHen"
= "06546ccf-8914-5b1c-942f-99664b9ecf44"
= "2020-11-06"
= "2024-11-01"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/yara/malware.yar#L3423-L3443"
= "https://github.com/ditekshen/detection/blob/e76c93dcdedff04076380ffc60ea54e45b313635/LICENSE.txt"
= "a1397a057422be260b5bdf1eb58571e95c259c132cc2518b39e1524a0eda9c66"
= 75
= 75
= "FILE"
= "MALWARE.Win.Trojan.NWorm"
strings:
$id1 = "N-W0rm" ascii
$id2 = "N_W0rm" ascii
$x1 = "pongPing" fullword wide
$x2 = "|NW|" fullword wide
$s1 = "runFile" fullword wide
$s2 = "runUrl" fullword wide
$s3 = "killer" fullword wide
$s4 = "powershell" fullword wide
$s5 = "wscript.exe" fullword wide
$s6 = "ExecutionPolicy Bypass -WindowStyle Hidden -NoExit -File \"" fullword wide
$s7 = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36" fullword wide
$s8 = "Start-Sleep -Seconds 1.5; Remove-Item -Path '" fullword wide
condition:
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( ( 1 of ( $id* ) and ( 1 of ( $x* ) or 3 of ( $s* ) ) ) or ( all of ( $x* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) or 7 of ( $s* ) or 10 of them )
}
Strings (12 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $id1 | text | "N-W0rm" | ascii |
| $id2 | text | "N_W0rm" | ascii |
| $x1 | text | "pongPing" | fullword wide |
| $x2 | text | "|NW|" | fullword wide |
| $s1 | text | "runFile" | fullword wide |
| $s2 | text | "runUrl" | fullword wide |
| $s3 | text | "killer" | fullword wide |
| $s4 | text | "powershell" | fullword wide |
| $s5 | text | "wscript.exe" | fullword wide |
| $s6 | text | "ExecutionPolicy Bypass -WindowStyle Hidden -NoExit -File \"" | fullword wide |
| $s7 | text | "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36" | fullword wide |
| $s8 | text | "Start-Sleep -Seconds 1.5; Remove-Item -Path '" | fullword wide |
Condition
uint16( 0 ) == 0x5a4d and ( ( 1 of ( $id* ) and ( 1 of ( $x* ) or 3 of ( $s* ) ) ) or ( all of ( $x* ) and 2 of ( $s* ) ) or 7 of ( $s* ) or 10 of them )In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must start with “MZ” — a Windows executable (PE).
- All patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $id* ) must match.
- At least 1 patterns in ( $x* ) must match.
- At least 3 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 2 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 7 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- At least 10 patterns in the rule 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: 06546ccf-8914-5b1c-942f-99664b9ecf44
Metadata
| clamav_sig | MALWARE.Win.Trojan.NWorm |
|---|
Tags:FILE
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