Actor(s): Lazarus Group
This family contains the BlueNoroff toolkit used for SWIFT manipulation, as used by the Lazarus activity cluster also referred to as BlueNoroff.
rule win_bluenoroff_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.bluenoroff." 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.bluenoroff" malpedia_rule_date = "20260916" malpedia_hash = "53a643781c18e08f4a50949af60172d837a0b6f6" malpedia_version = "20260917" 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 = { e8???????? 56 e8???????? 83c420 8b4dfc 33cd } // n = 6, score = 300 // e8???????? | // 56 | push esi // e8???????? | // 83c420 | add esp, 0x20 // 8b4dfc | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 33cd | xor ecx, ebp $sequence_1 = { 7429 8b4508 8b5510 8b4d0c 8906 52 } // n = 6, score = 300 // 7429 | je 0x2b // 8b4508 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 8b5510 | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x10] // 8b4d0c | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0xc] // 8906 | mov dword ptr [esi], eax // 52 | push edx $sequence_2 = { e8???????? 8b5508 8d4d0c 51 52 8d85fcfffeff } // n = 6, score = 300 // e8???????? | // 8b5508 | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 8d4d0c | lea ecx, [ebp + 0xc] // 51 | push ecx // 52 | push edx // 8d85fcfffeff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x10004] $sequence_3 = { 8bec 51 8b4508 53 6a00 } // n = 5, score = 300 // 8bec | mov ebp, esp // 51 | push ecx // 8b4508 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 53 | push ebx // 6a00 | push 0 $sequence_4 = { 56 8d95f8feffff 56 52 e8???????? 8b4dfc 83c428 } // n = 7, score = 300 // 56 | push esi // 8d95f8feffff | lea edx, [ebp - 0x108] // 56 | push esi // 52 | push edx // e8???????? | // 8b4dfc | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 83c428 | add esp, 0x28 $sequence_5 = { 8b55fc 320c3a 880f b901000000 } // n = 4, score = 300 // 8b55fc | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 320c3a | xor cl, byte ptr [edx + edi] // 880f | mov byte ptr [edi], cl // b901000000 | mov ecx, 1 $sequence_6 = { 881430 81f900010000 7ccb 5f 5e 5b } // n = 6, score = 300 // 881430 | mov byte ptr [eax + esi], dl // 81f900010000 | cmp ecx, 0x100 // 7ccb | jl 0xffffffcd // 5f | pop edi // 5e | pop esi // 5b | pop ebx $sequence_7 = { e8???????? b912010000 8bf3 f3a5 a1???????? 8b5004 83c410 } // n = 7, score = 300 // e8???????? | // b912010000 | mov ecx, 0x112 // 8bf3 | mov esi, ebx // f3a5 | rep movsd dword ptr es:[edi], dword ptr [esi] // a1???????? | // 8b5004 | mov edx, dword ptr [eax + 4] // 83c410 | add esp, 0x10 $sequence_8 = { 8b7d10 66898e00010000 32db 8bc1 } // n = 4, score = 300 // 8b7d10 | mov edi, dword ptr [ebp + 0x10] // 66898e00010000 | mov word ptr [esi + 0x100], cx // 32db | xor bl, bl // 8bc1 | mov eax, ecx $sequence_9 = { 83feff 7433 8d4e01 51 6a40 } // n = 5, score = 300 // 83feff | cmp esi, -1 // 7433 | je 0x35 // 8d4e01 | lea ecx, [esi + 1] // 51 | push ecx // 6a40 | push 0x40 condition: 7 of them and filesize < 303104 }
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