Actor(s): Equation Group
FancyFilter is a piece of code that documents code overlap between frameworks used by Regin and Equation Group.
rule win_fancyfilter_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.fancyfilter." 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.fancyfilter" 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 = { 85c0 750d 8b472c a801 } // n = 4, score = 400 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 750d | jne 0xf // 8b472c | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + 0x2c] // a801 | test al, 1 $sequence_1 = { 81e3ffffff00 ff15???????? 50 ff15???????? 85c0 } // n = 5, score = 400 // 81e3ffffff00 | and ebx, 0xffffff // ff15???????? | // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | test eax, eax $sequence_2 = { ff15???????? 83c420 83f803 7409 } // n = 4, score = 400 // ff15???????? | // 83c420 | add esp, 0x20 // 83f803 | cmp eax, 3 // 7409 | je 0xb $sequence_3 = { 85c0 740a 66833800 7404 b001 eb02 32c0 } // n = 7, score = 400 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 740a | je 0xc // 66833800 | cmp word ptr [eax], 0 // 7404 | je 6 // b001 | mov al, 1 // eb02 | jmp 4 // 32c0 | xor al, al $sequence_4 = { 7305 83c030 eb03 83c057 8801 49 } // n = 6, score = 400 // 7305 | jae 7 // 83c030 | add eax, 0x30 // eb03 | jmp 5 // 83c057 | add eax, 0x57 // 8801 | mov byte ptr [ecx], al // 49 | dec ecx $sequence_5 = { 51 50 ff15???????? 8b36 } // n = 4, score = 400 // 51 | push ecx // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 8b36 | mov esi, dword ptr [esi] $sequence_6 = { 740f 8d4f20 51 50 ff15???????? } // n = 5, score = 400 // 740f | je 0x11 // 8d4f20 | lea ecx, [edi + 0x20] // 51 | push ecx // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | $sequence_7 = { 7409 c605????????01 eb0d ff15???????? } // n = 4, score = 400 // 7409 | je 0xb // c605????????01 | // eb0d | jmp 0xf // ff15???????? | $sequence_8 = { 85c0 750d 8b472c a801 7406 83c804 } // n = 6, score = 400 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 750d | jne 0xf // 8b472c | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + 0x2c] // a801 | test al, 1 // 7406 | je 8 // 83c804 | or eax, 4 $sequence_9 = { 83c030 eb03 83c057 8801 49 } // n = 5, score = 400 // 83c030 | add eax, 0x30 // eb03 | jmp 5 // 83c057 | add eax, 0x57 // 8801 | mov byte ptr [ecx], al // 49 | dec ecx condition: 7 of them and filesize < 169984 }
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