FuxSocy has some similarities to win.cerber but is tracked as its own family for now.
rule win_fuxsocy_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-05-04" version = "1" description = "Detects win.fuxsocy." 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.fuxsocy" 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 = { 3906 5e 0f94c0 c3 6a10 68???????? e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 200 // 3906 | cmp dword ptr [esi], eax // 5e | pop esi // 0f94c0 | sete al // c3 | ret // 6a10 | push 0x10 // 68???????? | // e8???????? | $sequence_1 = { 57 f7d8 57 50 ff15???????? 89442444 85c0 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 57 | push edi // f7d8 | neg eax // 57 | push edi // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 89442444 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x44], eax // 85c0 | test eax, eax $sequence_2 = { 57 ff15???????? cc 81ecac000000 53 55 56 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 57 | push edi // ff15???????? | // cc | int3 // 81ecac000000 | sub esp, 0xac // 53 | push ebx // 55 | push ebp // 56 | push esi $sequence_3 = { 8bf1 57 8bca e8???????? 8bf8 8bd6 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 8bf1 | mov esi, ecx // 57 | push edi // 8bca | mov ecx, edx // e8???????? | // 8bf8 | mov edi, eax // 8bd6 | mov edx, esi $sequence_4 = { c745c43c000000 c745c840c60000 c745d074944000 c745d480944000 8945d8 ff15???????? 8945cc } // n = 7, score = 200 // c745c43c000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x3c], 0x3c // c745c840c60000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x38], 0xc640 // c745d074944000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x30], 0x409474 // c745d480944000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x2c], 0x409480 // 8945d8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x28], eax // ff15???????? | // 8945cc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x34], eax $sequence_5 = { 0f88f5000000 395dfc 0f84ec000000 6804010000 8d85ccfdffff 50 ff15???????? } // n = 7, score = 200 // 0f88f5000000 | js 0xfb // 395dfc | cmp dword ptr [ebp - 4], ebx // 0f84ec000000 | je 0xf2 // 6804010000 | push 0x104 // 8d85ccfdffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x234] // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | $sequence_6 = { e8???????? 8b16 8b4e1c 8944d104 ff06 eb03 } // n = 6, score = 200 // e8???????? | // 8b16 | mov edx, dword ptr [esi] // 8b4e1c | mov ecx, dword ptr [esi + 0x1c] // 8944d104 | mov dword ptr [ecx + edx*8 + 4], eax // ff06 | inc dword ptr [esi] // eb03 | jmp 5 $sequence_7 = { 8d442418 50 ff742420 ff15???????? 85c0 7539 33db } // n = 7, score = 200 // 8d442418 | lea eax, [esp + 0x18] // 50 | push eax // ff742420 | push dword ptr [esp + 0x20] // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 7539 | jne 0x3b // 33db | xor ebx, ebx $sequence_8 = { e9???????? 6880000000 56 33ff ff15???????? 33c9 51 } // n = 7, score = 200 // e9???????? | // 6880000000 | push 0x80 // 56 | push esi // 33ff | xor edi, edi // ff15???????? | // 33c9 | xor ecx, ecx // 51 | push ecx $sequence_9 = { 790f 51 ba???????? 8d4dfc e8???????? } // n = 5, score = 200 // 790f | jns 0x11 // 51 | push ecx // ba???????? | // 8d4dfc | lea ecx, [ebp - 4] // e8???????? | condition: 7 of them and filesize < 131072 }
rule win_fuxsocy_w0 { meta: author = "Stephan Simon <stephan.simon@binarydefense.com>" date = "2019-10-24" description = "A ransomware tweeted about by @malwrhunterteam" modified = "2019-10-24" reference = "https://twitter.com/malwrhunterteam/status/1187360440734625798" tlp = "WHITE" malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.fuxsocy" malpedia_version = "20191031" malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0" malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE" strings: $n1 = "FuxSocy_Evaluated" wide $n2 = "FuxSocy_InstallPlace" wide $n3 = "FuxSocy_Instance" wide $s1 = "{RAND}" wide $s2 = "\\x*x.exe" wide $s3 = "%.4d-%.2d-%.2dT%.2d:%.2d:%.2d" wide $s4 = "PT1M" wide $s5 = "PT0S" wide $s6 = "/d /c taskkill /f /pid %d > NUL & ping -n 1 127.0.0.1 > NUL & del \"%s\" > NUL & exit" wide $s7 = "/d /c start \"\" \"%s\"" wide $s8 = "Win32_ShadowCopy.ID='%s'" wide $s9 = "SuperHidden" wide $s10 = "ShowSuperHidden" wide $s11 = "Shell.IPC.%s" wide $s12 = "\\StringFileInfo\\%04x%04x\\%s" wide condition: filesize <= 100KB and (1 of ($n*) or 4 of ($s*)) }
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