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MALPEDIA_Win_Pathwiper_Auto
autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
MalwarePathwiperMalpedia 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: Pathwiper.
It defines 10 patterns (0 text, 10 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
win-pathwiper-auto.yarCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
rule MALPEDIA_Win_Pathwiper_Auto : FILE
{
meta:
= "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator"
= "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
= "a4120d05-0d60-5fe4-b438-d6e877288f36"
= "2026-05-04"
= "2026-05-18"
= "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.pathwiper"
= "https://github.com/malpedia/signator-rules//blob/c901f97b7df03e41917da74c2a84b04c227316c2/rules/win.pathwiper_auto.yar#L1-L132"
= "N/A"
= "b89d67bc42562b572193bd62350239328ae540c796c12fa0d6ee1faeac0d34c9"
= 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 = { c745e0ebccb158 668975e4 e8???????? 8b8d52ebffff 33c8 66894de6 b98fbc0000 }
$sequence_1 = { c645fc00 85c0 0f859a000000 8b45f0 83c018 8945f0 3b45ec }
$sequence_2 = { c645fc2d 8d8d24fcffff 50 51 8d4e54 e8???????? 68???????? }
$sequence_3 = { 8b85fcfeffff 8b00 50 83c008 50 8d8558ffffff 50 }
$sequence_4 = { 898534ebffff 8b4804 51 898d38ebffff 8d8dd8eaffff 50 }
$sequence_5 = { c645fc2f 50 8d8578ffffff 8d7e74 50 8bcf e8???????? }
$sequence_6 = { 8d45e0 8975ec 50 c745f037347af3 c745f41d4ae42d c745f89b1e0000 e8???????? }
$sequence_7 = { 50 8d45e0 8975ec 50 c745f03734baf3 c745f41deccda2 }
$sequence_8 = { 8d45f3 8945ec 8d45e0 50 c645f300 c645e800 e8???????? }
$sequence_9 = { c68578ffffff00 0f84b2000000 c6851cfeffff00 85c9 0f84f7010000 8b01 8d951cfeffff }
condition:
7 of them and filesize < 1047552
}
Strings (10 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $sequence_0 | hex | { c745e0ebccb158 668975e4 e8???????? 8b8d52ebffff 33c8 66894de6 b98fbc0000 } | |
| $sequence_1 | hex | { c645fc00 85c0 0f859a000000 8b45f0 83c018 8945f0 3b45ec } | |
| $sequence_2 | hex | { c645fc2d 8d8d24fcffff 50 51 8d4e54 e8???????? 68???????? } | |
| $sequence_3 | hex | { 8b85fcfeffff 8b00 50 83c008 50 8d8558ffffff 50 } | |
| $sequence_4 | hex | { 898534ebffff 8b4804 51 898d38ebffff 8d8dd8eaffff 50 } | |
| $sequence_5 | hex | { c645fc2f 50 8d8578ffffff 8d7e74 50 8bcf e8???????? } | |
| $sequence_6 | hex | { 8d45e0 8975ec 50 c745f037347af3 c745f41d4ae42d c745f89b1e0000 e8???????? } | |
| $sequence_7 | hex | { 50 8d45e0 8975ec 50 c745f03734baf3 c745f41deccda2 } | |
| $sequence_8 | hex | { 8d45f3 8945ec 8d45e0 50 c645f300 c645e800 e8???????? } | |
| $sequence_9 | hex | { c68578ffffff00 0f84b2000000 c6851cfeffff00 85c9 0f84f7010000 8b01 8d951cfeffff } |
Condition
7 of them and filesize < 1047552In plain words (Heuristic)
- The file must be smaller than 1047552 (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: a4120d05-0d60-5fe4-b438-d6e877288f36
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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