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NCSC_Sparrowdoor_Strings
Strings that appear in SparrowDoor’s backdoor. Targeting in memory.
- Author
- NCSC
- Date
- 2022-02-28
- Modified
- 2022-07-06
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 80
What this rule detects
Strings that appear in SparrowDoor’s backdoor. Targeting in memory.
Associated malware family: Sparrow Door.
It defines 12 patterns (11 text, 1 hex, 0 regex).
YARA-X says: warning[text_as_hex]: hex pattern could be written as text literal
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
Rule text not reproduced
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Sample hashes
Hashes of samples the author lists in the rule's meta (look them up in your threat-intelligence platform).
- c1890a6447c991880467b86a013dbeaa66cc615f
Licence & attribution
Author: NCSC
Source repository: NCSC (via Open-Source-YARA-rules) @ ec0056f767
Licence: No licence (all rights reserved) (repository licence)
Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.
Rule id: 6f96a577-fb59-57db-a66a-f514ecfbf982
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