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 = "2026-05-04" 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 = "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 = { ff15???????? 83c420 83f803 7409 } // n = 4, score = 400 // ff15???????? | // 83c420 | add esp, 0x20 // 83f803 | cmp eax, 3 // 7409 | je 0xb $sequence_1 = { a1???????? 83c012 50 ff15???????? } // n = 4, score = 400 // a1???????? | // 83c012 | add eax, 0x12 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | $sequence_2 = { 8d4f20 51 50 ff15???????? 8b36 } // n = 5, score = 400 // 8d4f20 | lea ecx, [edi + 0x20] // 51 | push ecx // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 8b36 | mov esi, dword ptr [esi] $sequence_3 = { 8b472c a801 7406 83c804 } // n = 4, score = 400 // 8b472c | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + 0x2c] // a801 | test al, 1 // 7406 | je 8 // 83c804 | or eax, 4 $sequence_4 = { ff15???????? 85c0 750d 8b472c a801 7406 83c804 } // n = 7, score = 400 // ff15???????? | // 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_5 = { 33f6 ff15???????? 83c414 83f803 } // n = 4, score = 400 // 33f6 | xor esi, esi // ff15???????? | // 83c414 | add esp, 0x14 // 83f803 | cmp eax, 3 $sequence_6 = { 85c0 740a 66833800 7404 b001 } // n = 5, score = 400 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 740a | je 0xc // 66833800 | cmp word ptr [eax], 0 // 7404 | je 6 // b001 | mov al, 1 $sequence_7 = { a1???????? 83c012 50 ff15???????? a1???????? } // n = 5, score = 400 // a1???????? | // 83c012 | add eax, 0x12 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // a1???????? | $sequence_8 = { b805400080 c20400 56 8b742408 8b4618 } // n = 5, score = 400 // b805400080 | mov eax, 0x80004005 // c20400 | ret 4 // 56 | push esi // 8b742408 | mov esi, dword ptr [esp + 8] // 8b4618 | mov eax, dword ptr [esi + 0x18] $sequence_9 = { 83c420 83f803 7409 83f806 } // n = 4, score = 400 // 83c420 | add esp, 0x20 // 83f803 | cmp eax, 3 // 7409 | je 0xb // 83f806 | cmp eax, 6 condition: 7 of them and filesize < 169984 }
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