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Moose


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References
2018-10-03Virus BulletinMasarah Paquet-Clouston, Olivier Bilodeau
Uncovering the Wholesale Industry of Social Media Fraud: From Botnets to Bulk Reseller Panels
Moose
2016-11-02GoSecureMasarah Paquet-Clouston
Exposing the EGO MARKET: the cybercrime performed by the Linux/Moose botnet
Moose
2016-11-02ESET ResearchESET Research
Linux/Moose: Still breathing
Moose
2015-05-26ESET ResearchGraham Cluley
Moose – the router worm with an appetite for social networks
Moose
2015-05-19ESET ResearchOlivier Bilodeau, Thomas Dupuy
Dissecting Linux/Moose
Moose
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] elf_moose_w0 (20250310 | No description)
// Linux/Moose yara rules
// For feedback or questions contact us at: github@eset.com
// https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/
//
// These yara rules are provided to the community under the two-clause BSD
// license as follows:
//
// Copyright (c) 2015-2016, ESET
// All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//
// 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
// list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
//
// 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
// and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
// DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
// FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
// DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
// SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
// CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
// OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
// OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
//

rule elf_moose_w0 {
    meta:
        Author      = "Thomas Dupuy"
        Date        = "2015/04/21"
        Description = "Linux/Moose malware"
        Reference   = "http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Dissecting-LinuxMoose.pdf"
        Source = "https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/"
        Contact = "github@eset.com"
        License = "BSD 2-Clause"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/elf.moose"
        malpedia_version = "20250310"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
    strings:
        $s0 = "Status: OK"
        $s1 = "--scrypt"
        $s2 = "stratum+tcp://"
        $s3 = "cmd.so"
        $s4 = "/Challenge"
        $s7 = "processor"
        $s9 = "cpu model"
        $s21 = "password is wrong"
        $s22 = "password:"
        $s23 = "uthentication failed"
        $s24 = "sh"
        $s25 = "ps"
        $s26 = "echo -n -e "
        $s27 = "chmod"
        $s28 = "elan2"
        $s29 = "elan3"
        $s30 = "chmod: not found"
        $s31 = "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
        $s32 = "/proc/%s/cmdline"
        $s33 = "kill %s"

    condition:
        all of them
}
[TLP:WHITE] elf_moose_w1 (20250310 | No description)
// Linux/Moose yara rules
// For feedback or questions contact us at: github@eset.com
// https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/
//
// These yara rules are provided to the community under the two-clause BSD
// license as follows:
//
// Copyright (c) 2015-2016, ESET
// All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
//
// 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
// list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
//
// 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
// and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
//
// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
// AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
// DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
// FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
// DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
// SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
// CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
// OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
// OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
//

rule elf_moose_w1 {
    meta:
        Author      = "Thomas Dupuy"
        Date        = "2016/10/02"
        Description = "Linux/Moose malware active since September 2015"
        Reference   = "http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/11/02/linuxmoose-still-breathing/"
        Contact = "github@eset.com"
        License = "BSD 2-Clause"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/elf.moose"
        malpedia_version = "20250310"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
    strings:
        $s1 = "Modules are loaded"
        $s2 = "--scrypt"
        $s3 = "http://"
        $s4 = "https://"
        $s5 = "processor "
        $s6 = "cpu model "
        $s7 = "Host: www.challpok.cn"
        $s8 = "Cookie: PHPSESSID=%s; nhash=%s; chash=%s"
        $s9 = "fail!"
        $s10 = "H3lL0WoRlD"
        $s11 = "crondd"
        $s12 = "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
        $s13 = "Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID="
        $s14 = "Set-Cookie: LP="
        $s15 = "Set-Cookie: WL="
        $s16 = "Set-Cookie: CP="
        $s17 = "Loading modules..."
        $s18 = "-nobg"

    condition:
        5 of them
}
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