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MALPEDIA_Win_Ghostsocks_Auto
autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
MalwareGhostsocksMalpedia signator rulesCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Compiles with YARA-X
- Author
- Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com
- Date
- 2026-05-04
- Modified
- 2026-05-18
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 75
What this rule detects
autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
Associated malware family: Ghostsocks.
It defines 10 patterns (0 text, 10 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
win-ghostsocks-auto.yarCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
rule MALPEDIA_Win_Ghostsocks_Auto : FILE
{
meta:
= "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator"
= "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
= "5c1cb11a-0850-5d40-b71f-408c9daae878"
= "2026-05-04"
= "2026-05-18"
= "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.ghostsocks"
= "https://github.com/malpedia/signator-rules//blob/c901f97b7df03e41917da74c2a84b04c227316c2/rules/win.ghostsocks_auto.yar#L1-L134"
= "N/A"
= "c337a9e96f9dca2a0a87fca084e46544266617e7aebed208b795d0bb71baeab6"
= 75
= 75
= "FILE"
= "1"
= "yara-signator v0.6.0"
= "callsandjumps;datarefs;binvalue"
= "20260422"
= "a182e35da64e6d71cb55f125c4d4225196523f14"
= "20260504"
= "CC BY-SA 4.0"
= "TLP:WHITE"
strings:
$sequence_0 = { eb0b e8???????? 8b4c2434 890f 8908 8b4c241c 8b5130 }
$sequence_1 = { e9???????? 89f1 e8???????? 89f9 89f2 e8???????? 89f8 }
$sequence_2 = { eb18 891c24 897c2404 e8???????? 8b6c2408 8b5c2414 8b7c241c }
$sequence_3 = { eb09 c644243c01 83c428 c3 89c8 89e9 e8???????? }
$sequence_4 = { e8???????? 890f 8b8424a8000000 8b5020 895704 894820 8b4808 }
$sequence_5 = { e8???????? ebb0 8b0d???????? 648b09 8b09 3b6108 0f8646020000 }
$sequence_6 = { e8???????? 837c246803 75cf 8b4c2464 668139646e 75c4 80790273 }
$sequence_7 = { eb3a 894c2424 89442444 891424 894c2404 89742408 894c240c }
$sequence_8 = { f20f114c242c 83c414 c3 8b44241c f30f1000 f30f104804 f30f5ac0 }
$sequence_9 = { e9???????? 0fb64c2412 e9???????? 83f806 0f84b1010000 83f808 751e }
condition:
7 of them and filesize < 16646144
}
Strings (10 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $sequence_0 | hex | { eb0b e8???????? 8b4c2434 890f 8908 8b4c241c 8b5130 } | |
| $sequence_1 | hex | { e9???????? 89f1 e8???????? 89f9 89f2 e8???????? 89f8 } | |
| $sequence_2 | hex | { eb18 891c24 897c2404 e8???????? 8b6c2408 8b5c2414 8b7c241c } | |
| $sequence_3 | hex | { eb09 c644243c01 83c428 c3 89c8 89e9 e8???????? } | |
| $sequence_4 | hex | { e8???????? 890f 8b8424a8000000 8b5020 895704 894820 8b4808 } | |
| $sequence_5 | hex | { e8???????? ebb0 8b0d???????? 648b09 8b09 3b6108 0f8646020000 } | |
| $sequence_6 | hex | { e8???????? 837c246803 75cf 8b4c2464 668139646e 75c4 80790273 } | |
| $sequence_7 | hex | { eb3a 894c2424 89442444 891424 894c2404 89742408 894c240c } | |
| $sequence_8 | hex | { f20f114c242c 83c414 c3 8b44241c f30f1000 f30f104804 f30f5ac0 } | |
| $sequence_9 | hex | { e9???????? 0fb64c2412 e9???????? 83f806 0f84b1010000 83f808 751e } |
Condition
7 of them and filesize < 16646144In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must be smaller than 16646144 (a cheap guard that skips large files).
- At least 7 patterns in the rule must match.
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Licence & attribution
Author: Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com
Source repository: Malpedia signator rules @ c901f97b7d
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (repository licence)
Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.
Rule id: 5c1cb11a-0850-5d40-b71f-408c9daae878
Metadata
| version | 1 |
|---|---|
| tool | yara-signator v0.6.0 |
| signator_config | callsandjumps;datarefs;binvalue |
| malpedia_rule_date | 20260422 |
| malpedia_hash | a182e35da64e6d71cb55f125c4d4225196523f14 |
| malpedia_version | 20260504 |
| malpedia_license | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| malpedia_sharing | TLP:WHITE |
Tags:FILE
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