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 = "2026-05-04" 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 = "20260422" malpedia_hash = "a182e35da64e6d71cb55f125c4d4225196523f14" malpedia_version = "20260504" 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 = { 89461c 8b45f8 894618 8b461c 83c00c 894610 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 89461c | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x1c], eax // 8b45f8 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 894618 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x18], eax // 8b461c | mov eax, dword ptr [esi + 0x1c] // 83c00c | add eax, 0xc // 894610 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x10], eax $sequence_1 = { e8???????? 8bf0 8d8500fcffff 83c604 33d2 6a08 8bca } // n = 7, score = 200 // e8???????? | // 8bf0 | mov esi, eax // 8d8500fcffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x400] // 83c604 | add esi, 4 // 33d2 | xor edx, edx // 6a08 | push 8 // 8bca | mov ecx, edx $sequence_2 = { 59 ff15???????? 0faf4608 ff4508 83c704 837d081e } // n = 6, score = 200 // 59 | pop ecx // ff15???????? | // 0faf4608 | imul eax, dword ptr [esi + 8] // ff4508 | inc dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 83c704 | add edi, 4 // 837d081e | cmp dword ptr [ebp + 8], 0x1e $sequence_3 = { ff742414 e8???????? 8bf0 85f6 7411 6888130000 ff15???????? } // n = 7, score = 200 // ff742414 | push dword ptr [esp + 0x14] // e8???????? | // 8bf0 | mov esi, eax // 85f6 | test esi, esi // 7411 | je 0x13 // 6888130000 | push 0x1388 // ff15???????? | $sequence_4 = { 8365fc00 66ab aa 80a508f0ffff00 } // n = 4, score = 200 // 8365fc00 | and dword ptr [ebp - 4], 0 // 66ab | stosw word ptr es:[edi], ax // aa | stosb byte ptr es:[edi], al // 80a508f0ffff00 | and byte ptr [ebp - 0xff8], 0 $sequence_5 = { 7620 0fb6543904 8bd8 81e3ff000000 33d3 c1e808 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 7620 | jbe 0x22 // 0fb6543904 | movzx edx, byte ptr [ecx + edi + 4] // 8bd8 | mov ebx, eax // 81e3ff000000 | and ebx, 0xff // 33d3 | xor edx, ebx // c1e808 | shr eax, 8 $sequence_6 = { 6804010000 50 8d4708 50 ffd3 83c418 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 6804010000 | push 0x104 // 50 | push eax // 8d4708 | lea eax, [edi + 8] // 50 | push eax // ffd3 | call ebx // 83c418 | add esp, 0x18 $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 = { 83c00c 0107 8b37 03f3 e8???????? 6854414449 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 83c00c | add eax, 0xc // 0107 | add dword ptr [edi], eax // 8b37 | mov esi, dword ptr [edi] // 03f3 | add esi, ebx // e8???????? | // 6854414449 | push 0x49444154 $sequence_9 = { 750b ff15???????? 89460c eb28 57 57 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 750b | jne 0xd // ff15???????? | // 89460c | mov dword ptr [esi + 0xc], eax // eb28 | jmp 0x2a // 57 | push edi // 57 | push edi condition: 7 of them and filesize < 118784 }
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