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R3C0NST_Nighthawk_RAT

Detects Nighthawk RAT

Hack toolNighthawkFrank Boldewin (R3c0nst)No licence (all rights reserved)Compiles with YARA-X (with warnings)
Author
Frank Boldewin (@r3c0nst)
Date
2022-11-30
Score / Quality
75 / 90

What this rule detects

Detects Nighthawk RAT

Associated malware family: Nighthawk.

Targets: Windows PE.

It defines 6 patterns (0 text, 6 hex, 0 regex). YARA modules used: pe.

YARA-X says: warning[non_bool_expr]: non-boolean expression used as boolean

Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.

Rule source

Rule text not reproduced

This rule comes from Frank Boldewin (R3c0nst), which does not grant a licence to redistribute its rules (No licence (all rights reserved)). We show its metadata only. Read the original rule upstream:

View the rule on GitHubOpen the repository

References

Sample hashes

Hashes of samples the author lists in the rule's meta (look them up in your threat-intelligence platform).

  • 0551ca07f05c2a8278229c1dc651a2b1273a39914857231b075733753cb2b988
  • 9a57919cc5c194e28acd62719487c563a8f0ef1205b65adbe535386e34e418b8
  • 38881b87826f184cc91559555a3456ecf00128e01986a9df36a72d60fb179ccf
  • f3bba2bfd4ed48b5426e36eba3b7613973226983a784d24d7a20fcf9df0de74e
  • b775a8f7629966592cc7727e2081924a7d7cf83edd7447aa60627a2b67d87c94

Licence & attribution

Author: Frank Boldewin (@r3c0nst)

Source repository: Frank Boldewin (R3c0nst) @ 54e9e6899b

Licence: No licence (all rights reserved) (repository licence)

Original rule

Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.

Rule id: 7a58b8bf-fb14-5758-bc2a-ad2c6fff1216

Tags:FILE

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