Mandiant associates this with UNC4191, this malware spreads to removable drives.
rule win_darkdew_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.darkdew." 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.darkdew" 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 = { 8bbd68ffffff 0f43cf 8d5101 8a01 41 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8bbd68ffffff | mov edi, dword ptr [ebp - 0x98] // 0f43cf | cmovae ecx, edi // 8d5101 | lea edx, [ecx + 1] // 8a01 | mov al, byte ptr [ecx] // 41 | inc ecx $sequence_1 = { 8b4d18 2bc1 6a03 68???????? 83f803 7221 83fa10 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8b4d18 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x18] // 2bc1 | sub eax, ecx // 6a03 | push 3 // 68???????? | // 83f803 | cmp eax, 3 // 7221 | jb 0x23 // 83fa10 | cmp edx, 0x10 $sequence_2 = { 668945d4 8bc6 2bc2 c745e400000000 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 668945d4 | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x2c], ax // 8bc6 | mov eax, esi // 2bc2 | sub eax, edx // c745e400000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], 0 $sequence_3 = { 8d8d1cfeffff e8???????? c645fc0b 8d4584 837d9810 8b3d???????? 0f434584 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8d8d1cfeffff | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x1e4] // e8???????? | // c645fc0b | mov byte ptr [ebp - 4], 0xb // 8d4584 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x7c] // 837d9810 | cmp dword ptr [ebp - 0x68], 0x10 // 8b3d???????? | // 0f434584 | cmovae eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x7c] $sequence_4 = { c745e400000000 c745e807000000 668945d4 8945fc 85f6 0f8456010000 8dbd20feffff } // n = 7, score = 100 // c745e400000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], 0 // c745e807000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x18], 7 // 668945d4 | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x2c], ax // 8945fc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], eax // 85f6 | test esi, esi // 0f8456010000 | je 0x15c // 8dbd20feffff | lea edi, [ebp - 0x1e0] $sequence_5 = { e8???????? 59 83cfff 897de4 8365fc00 8b049da0f30110 8b4de0 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 59 | pop ecx // 83cfff | or edi, 0xffffffff // 897de4 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], edi // 8365fc00 | and dword ptr [ebp - 4], 0 // 8b049da0f30110 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebx*4 + 0x1001f3a0] // 8b4de0 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x20] $sequence_6 = { f3a5 89442410 3b442424 0f8501feffff 5f } // n = 5, score = 100 // f3a5 | rep movsd dword ptr es:[edi], dword ptr [esi] // 89442410 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x10], eax // 3b442424 | cmp eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x24] // 0f8501feffff | jne 0xfffffe07 // 5f | pop edi $sequence_7 = { 83fa10 8d7508 8d4103 0f437508 03f1 894518 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 83fa10 | cmp edx, 0x10 // 8d7508 | lea esi, [ebp + 8] // 8d4103 | lea eax, [ecx + 3] // 0f437508 | cmovae esi, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 03f1 | add esi, ecx // 894518 | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0x18], eax $sequence_8 = { 8bfb f3a5 8b75fc 8dbdb8fdffff b991000000 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8bfb | mov edi, ebx // f3a5 | rep movsd dword ptr es:[edi], dword ptr [esi] // 8b75fc | mov esi, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 8dbdb8fdffff | lea edi, [ebp - 0x248] // b991000000 | mov ecx, 0x91 $sequence_9 = { 83c408 c745fcffffffff 8b957cffffff c7459400000000 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 83c408 | add esp, 8 // c745fcffffffff | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], 0xffffffff // 8b957cffffff | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x84] // c7459400000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x6c], 0 condition: 7 of them and filesize < 279552 }
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