YARA · Volexity threat-intel
VOLEXITY_Malware_Golang_Pantegana
Detects PANTEGANA, a Golang backdoor used by a range of threat actors due to its public availability.
- Author
- threatintel@volexity.com
- Date
- 2022-03-30
- Modified
- 2025-03-21
- Score / Quality
- 75 / 80
What this rule detects
Detects PANTEGANA, a Golang backdoor used by a range of threat actors due to its public availability.
It defines 7 patterns (7 text, 0 hex, 0 regex).
Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.
Rule source
rule VOLEXITY_Malware_Golang_Pantegana : FILE MEMORY
{
meta:
= "Detects PANTEGANA, a Golang backdoor used by a range of threat actors due to its public availability."
= "threatintel@volexity.com"
= "b6154165-68e0-5986-a0cf-5631d369c230"
= "2022-03-30"
= "2025-03-21"
= "https://github.com/elleven11/pantegana"
= "https://github.com/volexity/threat-intel/blob/3a9d0b52459877ee866a9a0ba06e60059b778c77/2022/2022-06-15 DriftingCloud - Zero-Day Sophos Firewall Exploitation and an Insidious Breach/indicators/yara.yar#L90-L120"
= "https://github.com/volexity/threat-intel/blob/3a9d0b52459877ee866a9a0ba06e60059b778c77/LICENSE.txt"
= "8297c99391aae918f154077c61ea94a99c7a339166e7981d9912b7fdc2e0d4f0"
= "791a664a6b4b98051cbfacb451099de085cbab74d73771709377ab68a5a23d2b"
= 75
= 80
= "FILE, MEMORY"
= "all"
= "all"
= "file,memory"
= "high"
= "See license at https://github.com/volexity/threat-intel/blob/main/LICENSE.txt"
= 6631
= 3
strings:
$s1 = "RunFingerprinter" ascii
$s2 = "SendSysInfo" ascii
$s3 = "ExecAndGetOutput" ascii
$s4 = "RequestCommand" ascii
$s5 = "bindataRead" ascii
$s6 = "RunClient" ascii
$magic = "github.com/elleven11/pantegana" ascii
condition:
5 of ( $s* ) or $magic
}
Strings (7 patterns)
| Identifier | Type | Value | Modifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| $s1 | text | "RunFingerprinter" | ascii |
| $s2 | text | "SendSysInfo" | ascii |
| $s3 | text | "ExecAndGetOutput" | ascii |
| $s4 | text | "RequestCommand" | ascii |
| $s5 | text | "bindataRead" | ascii |
| $s6 | text | "RunClient" | ascii |
| $magic | text | "github.com/elleven11/pantegana" | ascii |
Condition
5 of ( $s* ) or $magicIn plain words (Heuristic)
- At least 5 patterns in ( $s* ) must match.
- Pattern $magic must be present.
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References
Sample hashes
Hashes of samples the author lists in the rule's meta (look them up in your threat-intelligence platform).
- 8297c99391aae918f154077c61ea94a99c7a339166e7981d9912b7fdc2e0d4f0
Licence & attribution
Author: threatintel@volexity.com
Source repository: Volexity threat-intel @ 3a9d0b5245
Licence: BSD 2-Clause License (stated in the rule's own meta)
“See license at https://github.com/volexity/threat-intel/blob/main/LICENSE.txt”
Copyright notice: Copyright 2022 by Volexity, Inc.
Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.
Rule id: b6154165-68e0-5986-a0cf-5631d369c230
Metadata
| os | all |
|---|---|
| os_arch | all |
| scan_context | file,memory |
| severity | high |
| rule_id | 6631 |
| version | 3 |
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