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win.gameover_p2p (Back to overview)

Gameover P2P

aka: GOZ, Gameover ZeuS, Mapp, ZeuS P2P
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Gameover ZeuS is a peer-to-peer botnet based on components from the earlier ZeuS trojan. According to a report by Symantec, Gameover Zeus has largely been used for banking fraud and distribution of the CryptoLocker ransomware. In early June 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that an international inter-agency collaboration named Operation Tovar had succeeded in temporarily cutting communication between Gameover ZeuS and its command and control servers.

References
2023-08-23 ⋅ Zeus Museum ⋅ Dennis Schwarz
Historical Gameover Deep Dive
Gameover P2P
2022-04-27 ⋅ ⋅ ANSSI ⋅ ANSSI
LE GROUPE CYBERCRIMINEL FIN7
Bateleur BELLHOP Griffon SQLRat POWERSOURCE Andromeda BABYMETAL BlackCat BlackMatter BOOSTWRITE Carbanak Cobalt Strike DNSMessenger Dridex DRIFTPIN Gameover P2P MimiKatz Murofet Qadars Ranbyus SocksBot
2021-09-09 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
Dark Covenant: Connections Between the Russian State and Criminal Actors
BlackEnergy EternalPetya Gameover P2P Zeus
2021-06-08 ⋅ Intel 471 ⋅ Intel 471
The blurry boundaries between nation-state actors and the cybercrime underground
Dridex Gameover P2P
2021-02-08 ⋅ Lawfare Blog ⋅ David Hechler
What Is the Point of These Nation-State Indictments?
Gameover P2P Nymaim
2020-07-17 ⋅ CERT-FR ⋅ CERT-FR
The Malware Dridex: Origins and Uses
Andromeda CryptoLocker Cutwail DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FriedEx Gameover P2P Gandcrab ISFB Murofet Necurs Predator The Thief Zeus
2019-12-19 ⋅ KrebsOnSecurity ⋅ Brian Krebs
Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
Dridex Gameover P2P Zeus Evil Corp
2017-05-15 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
Evolution of the GOLD EVERGREEN Threat Group
CryptoLocker Dridex Dyre Gameover P2P Murofet TrickBot Zeus GOLD EVERGREEN
2017-03-21 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Garrett M. Graff
Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
Gameover P2P
2017-03-21 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Chad Hagen, Garrett M. Graff
Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker
Gameover P2P Murofet Zeus
2015-12-01 ⋅ CERT.PL ⋅ CERT.PL
ZeuS-P2P monitoring and analysis
Gameover P2P
2015-09-03 ⋅ Johannes Bader's Blog ⋅ Johannes Bader
Three Variants of Murofet's DGA
Gameover P2P Murofet
2015-08-05 ⋅ Black Hat ⋅ Elliott Peterson, Michael Sandee, Tillmann Werner
Gameover Zeus – Bad Guys and Backends
Gameover P2P
2015-02-06 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Global Threat Intel Report 2014
BlackPOS CryptoLocker Derusbi Elise Enfal EvilGrab Gameover P2P HttpBrowser MedusaHTTP Mirage Naikon NetTraveler pirpi PlugX Poison Ivy Sakula RAT Sinowal sykipot taidoor
2014-10-14 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Symantec Security Response
Security vendors take action against Hidden Lynx malware
Gameover P2P HiKit Shylock APT17
2013-10-01 ⋅ MALWARE Conference ⋅ Brett Stone-Gross, Christian Rossow, Daniel Plohmann, Dennis Andriesse, Herbert Bos
Highly Resilient Peer-to-Peer Botnets Are Here: An Analysis of Gameover Zeus
Gameover P2P
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_gameover_p2p_auto (20260917 | Detects win.gameover_p2p.)
rule win_gameover_p2p_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2026-09-17"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.gameover_p2p."
        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.gameover_p2p"
        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 = { e8???????? 84c0 745a 51 51 6a14 5a }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   84c0                 | test                al, al
            //   745a                 | je                  0x5c
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   6a14                 | push                0x14
            //   5a                   | pop                 edx

        $sequence_1 = { 57 8d3c9548373d02 8b0f 334f04 23cb 330f 8bc1 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   8d3c9548373d02       | lea                 edi, [edx*4 + 0x23d3748]
            //   8b0f                 | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [edi]
            //   334f04               | xor                 ecx, dword ptr [edi + 4]
            //   23cb                 | and                 ecx, ebx
            //   330f                 | xor                 ecx, dword ptr [edi]
            //   8bc1                 | mov                 eax, ecx

        $sequence_2 = { 85db 7468 6a67 8d542440 59 e8???????? 6a68 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   85db                 | test                ebx, ebx
            //   7468                 | je                  0x6a
            //   6a67                 | push                0x67
            //   8d542440             | lea                 edx, [esp + 0x40]
            //   59                   | pop                 ecx
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   6a68                 | push                0x68

        $sequence_3 = { 743f 53 8d442420 50 57 56 ff742428 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   743f                 | je                  0x41
            //   53                   | push                ebx
            //   8d442420             | lea                 eax, [esp + 0x20]
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   ff742428             | push                dword ptr [esp + 0x28]

        $sequence_4 = { 57 ff75fc bf04010000 68???????? 53 8d85f0fdffff 57 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   ff75fc               | push                dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   bf04010000           | mov                 edi, 0x104
            //   68????????           |                     
            //   53                   | push                ebx
            //   8d85f0fdffff         | lea                 eax, [ebp - 0x210]
            //   57                   | push                edi

        $sequence_5 = { e8???????? 803d????????04 51 8b4dfc 1bd2 f7da 81c289000000 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   803d????????04       |                     
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   8b4dfc               | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   1bd2                 | sbb                 edx, edx
            //   f7da                 | neg                 edx
            //   81c289000000         | add                 edx, 0x89

        $sequence_6 = { 5e 5b c9 c20800 85db 7427 }
            // n = 6, score = 100
            //   5e                   | pop                 esi
            //   5b                   | pop                 ebx
            //   c9                   | leave               
            //   c20800               | ret                 8
            //   85db                 | test                ebx, ebx
            //   7427                 | je                  0x29

        $sequence_7 = { 83fe03 7510 51 51 6a14 5a 8d4c247c }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   83fe03               | cmp                 esi, 3
            //   7510                 | jne                 0x12
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   6a14                 | push                0x14
            //   5a                   | pop                 edx
            //   8d4c247c             | lea                 ecx, [esp + 0x7c]

        $sequence_8 = { 8d4c245c e8???????? 81fe00c80000 7646 6a03 58 8bfb }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   8d4c245c             | lea                 ecx, [esp + 0x5c]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   81fe00c80000         | cmp                 esi, 0xc800
            //   7646                 | jbe                 0x48
            //   6a03                 | push                3
            //   58                   | pop                 eax
            //   8bfb                 | mov                 edi, ebx

        $sequence_9 = { 894dcc 8d4ddc 51 6880000000 50 57 ff15???????? }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   894dcc               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 0x34], ecx
            //   8d4ddc               | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x24]
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   6880000000           | push                0x80
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   ff15????????         |                     

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 598016
}
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