Actor(s): APT41, Aurora Panda, Leviathan
a backdoor that obfuscates its communications as normal traffic to legitimate websites such as Github and Microsoft's Technet portal.
rule win_blackcoffee_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-01-05" version = "1" description = "Detects win.blackcoffee." info = "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator" tool = "yara-signator v0.6.0" signator_config = "callsandjumps;datarefs;binvalue" malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.blackcoffee" malpedia_rule_date = "20260105" malpedia_hash = "19b79e7cab4eaf532122e5b45a77dd8f6bb5cc79" malpedia_version = "20251219" malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0" malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE" /* DISCLAIMER * The strings used in this rule have been automatically selected from the * disassembly of memory dumps and unpacked files, using YARA-Signator. * The code and documentation is published here: * https://github.com/fxb-cocacoding/yara-signator * As Malpedia is used as data source, please note that for a given * number of families, only single samples are documented. * This likely impacts the degree of generalization these rules will offer. * Take the described generation method also into consideration when you * apply the rules in your use cases and assign them confidence levels. */ strings: $sequence_0 = { ff75fc 57 6a01 ff15???????? 8bd8 3bdf } // n = 6, score = 200 // ff75fc | push dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 57 | push edi // 6a01 | push 1 // ff15???????? | // 8bd8 | mov ebx, eax // 3bdf | cmp ebx, edi $sequence_1 = { 53 e8???????? 83c40c ffd3 3bc7 7460 8b5610 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 53 | push ebx // e8???????? | // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // ffd3 | call ebx // 3bc7 | cmp eax, edi // 7460 | je 0x62 // 8b5610 | mov edx, dword ptr [esi + 0x10] $sequence_2 = { 897dfc 8945f4 50 8d4610 } // n = 4, score = 200 // 897dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], edi // 8945f4 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0xc], eax // 50 | push eax // 8d4610 | lea eax, [esi + 0x10] $sequence_3 = { 50 c70614000000 ff15???????? 8d85dcfeffff 83c40c 8945e8 8d45e0 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 50 | push eax // c70614000000 | mov dword ptr [esi], 0x14 // ff15???????? | // 8d85dcfeffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x124] // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // 8945e8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x18], eax // 8d45e0 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x20] $sequence_4 = { c68501f0ffff36 c68502f0ffff34 c68503f0ffff50 c68504f0ffff72 } // n = 4, score = 200 // c68501f0ffff36 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 0xfff], 0x36 // c68502f0ffff34 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 0xffe], 0x34 // c68503f0ffff50 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 0xffd], 0x50 // c68504f0ffff72 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 0xffc], 0x72 $sequence_5 = { 8b45fc 89460c c70614000000 e9???????? 83660c00 8d85b4feffff 50 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 8b45fc | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 89460c | mov dword ptr [esi + 0xc], eax // c70614000000 | mov dword ptr [esi], 0x14 // e9???????? | // 83660c00 | and dword ptr [esi + 0xc], 0 // 8d85b4feffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x14c] // 50 | push eax $sequence_6 = { 6800800000 57 53 ff15???????? 8b4610 } // n = 5, score = 200 // 6800800000 | push 0x8000 // 57 | push edi // 53 | push ebx // ff15???????? | // 8b4610 | mov eax, dword ptr [esi + 0x10] $sequence_7 = { e8???????? 8806 8d45b0 50 } // n = 4, score = 200 // e8???????? | // 8806 | mov byte ptr [esi], al // 8d45b0 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x50] // 50 | push eax $sequence_8 = { 897dfc 57 ff15???????? 8bd8 3bdf 747a 8b460c } // n = 7, score = 200 // 897dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], edi // 57 | push edi // ff15???????? | // 8bd8 | mov ebx, eax // 3bdf | cmp ebx, edi // 747a | je 0x7c // 8b460c | mov eax, dword ptr [esi + 0xc] $sequence_9 = { 895efc ff75f8 56 e8???????? 83c40c 56 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 895efc | mov dword ptr [esi - 4], ebx // ff75f8 | push dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 56 | push esi // e8???????? | // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // 56 | push esi condition: 7 of them and filesize < 118784 }
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