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 = "2026-05-04" 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 = "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 = { 83e801 0f8595010000 c745e4545d0110 e9???????? 894de0 c745e4545d0110 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 83e801 | sub eax, 1 // 0f8595010000 | jne 0x19b // c745e4545d0110 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], 0x10015d54 // e9???????? | // 894de0 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x20], ecx // c745e4545d0110 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], 0x10015d54 $sequence_1 = { 8d4d9c 0f43c8 83ff0b 754d ba???????? } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8d4d9c | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x64] // 0f43c8 | cmovae ecx, eax // 83ff0b | cmp edi, 0xb // 754d | jne 0x4f // ba???????? | $sequence_2 = { 50 ff15???????? 48 b991000000 f7d8 1bc0 697df844020000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 48 | dec eax // b991000000 | mov ecx, 0x91 // f7d8 | neg eax // 1bc0 | sbb eax, eax // 697df844020000 | imul edi, dword ptr [ebp - 8], 0x244 $sequence_3 = { 50 ff15???????? 837db010 8d459c 6a06 0f43459c 50 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 837db010 | cmp dword ptr [ebp - 0x50], 0x10 // 8d459c | lea eax, [ebp - 0x64] // 6a06 | push 6 // 0f43459c | cmovae eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x64] // 50 | push eax $sequence_4 = { 83e13f c1f806 6bc938 8b0485a0f30110 0fb6440828 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 83e13f | and ecx, 0x3f // c1f806 | sar eax, 6 // 6bc938 | imul ecx, ecx, 0x38 // 8b0485a0f30110 | mov eax, dword ptr [eax*4 + 0x1001f3a0] // 0fb6440828 | movzx eax, byte ptr [eax + ecx + 0x28] $sequence_5 = { 2bc1 83f801 7218 8d4101 83fa10 8945c8 8d45b8 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 2bc1 | sub eax, ecx // 83f801 | cmp eax, 1 // 7218 | jb 0x1a // 8d4101 | lea eax, [ecx + 1] // 83fa10 | cmp edx, 0x10 // 8945c8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x38], eax // 8d45b8 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x48] $sequence_6 = { 84c0 75f9 2bca 83fe10 8d55dc 51 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 84c0 | test al, al // 75f9 | jne 0xfffffffb // 2bca | sub ecx, edx // 83fe10 | cmp esi, 0x10 // 8d55dc | lea edx, [ebp - 0x24] // 51 | push ecx $sequence_7 = { 0f8723010000 8d040a 8bcb 3bc3 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 0f8723010000 | ja 0x129 // 8d040a | lea eax, [edx + ecx] // 8bcb | mov ecx, ebx // 3bc3 | cmp eax, ebx $sequence_8 = { e8???????? 83c40c 33c0 6689047e 8b7db4 eb18 } // n = 6, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // 33c0 | xor eax, eax // 6689047e | mov word ptr [esi + edi*2], ax // 8b7db4 | mov edi, dword ptr [ebp - 0x4c] // eb18 | jmp 0x1a $sequence_9 = { 2bf9 8b8d5cffffff 8bc2 2bc1 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 2bf9 | sub edi, ecx // 8b8d5cffffff | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 0xa4] // 8bc2 | mov eax, edx // 2bc1 | sub eax, ecx condition: 7 of them and filesize < 279552 }
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