SYMBOLCOMMON_NAMEaka. SYNONYMS
win.hermeticwiper (Back to overview)

HermeticWiper

aka: DriveSlayer, FoxBlade, KillDisk.NCV, NEARMISS
VTCollection    

According to SentinelLabs, HermeticWiper is a custom-written application with very few standard functions. It abuses a signed driver called "empntdrv.sys" which is associated with the legitimate Software "EaseUS Partition Master Software" to enumerate the MBR and all partitions of all Physical Drives connected to the victims Windows Device and overwrite the first 512 Bytes of every MBR and Partition it can find, rendering them useless.
This malware is associated to the malware attacks against Ukraine during Russians Invasion in February 2022.

References
2024-04-16 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Alden Wahlstrom, Anton Prokopenkov, Dan Black, Dan Perez, Gabby Roncone, John Wolfram, Lexie Aytes, Nick Simonian, Ryan Hall, Tyler McLellan
APT44: Unearthing Sandworm
VPNFilter BlackEnergy CaddyWiper EternalPetya HermeticWiper Industroyer INDUSTROYER2 Olympic Destroyer PartyTicket RoarBAT Sandworm
2023-04-18 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Mandiant
M-Trends 2023
QUIETEXIT AppleJeus Black Basta BlackCat CaddyWiper Cobalt Strike Dharma HermeticWiper Hive INDUSTROYER2 Ladon LockBit Meterpreter PartyTicket PlugX QakBot REvil Royal Ransom SystemBC WhisperGate
2023-03-15 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Threat Intelligence
A year of Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine
CaddyWiper DesertBlade DoubleZero HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 IsaacWiper PartyTicket SwiftSlicer WhisperGate
2023-02-24 ⋅ Twitter (@Sebdraven) ⋅ Sébastien Larinier
Tweet on IOCTL manipulation in TDL4 and HermeticWiper
Alureon HermeticWiper
2023-02-15 ⋅ Google ⋅ Google Threat Analysis Group, Mandiant
Fog of War: How the Ukraine Conflict Transformed the Cyber Threat Landscape
CaddyWiper Dharma HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 PartyTicket WhisperGate Callisto Curious Gorge MUSTANG PANDA Turla
2022-12-03 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Cliff Watts
Preparing for a Russian cyber offensive against Ukraine this winter
CaddyWiper HermeticWiper Prestige
2022-10-24 ⋅ Youtube (Virus Bulletin) ⋅ Alexander Adamov
Russian wipers in the cyberwar against Ukraine
AcidRain CaddyWiper DesertBlade DoubleZero EternalPetya HermeticWiper HermeticWizard INDUSTROYER2 IsaacWiper KillDisk PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-09-26 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Ioan Iacob, Iulian Madalin Ionita
The Anatomy of Wiper Malware, Part 3: Input/Output Controls
CaddyWiper DEADWOOD DistTrack DoubleZero DUSTMAN HermeticWiper IsaacWiper Meteor Petya Sierra(Alfa,Bravo, ...) StoneDrill WhisperGate ZeroCleare
2022-08-18 ⋅ Trustwave ⋅ Pawel Knapczyk
Overview of the Cyber Weapons Used in the Ukraine - Russia War
AcidRain CaddyWiper Cobalt Strike CredoMap DCRat DoubleZero GraphSteel GrimPlant HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 InvisiMole IsaacWiper PartyTicket
2022-08-18 ⋅ Trustwave ⋅ Pawel Knapczyk
Overview of the Cyber Weapons Used in the Ukraine - Russia War
AcidRain CaddyWiper Cobalt Strike CredoMap DCRat DoubleZero GraphSteel GrimPlant HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 InvisiMole IsaacWiper PartyTicket
2022-08-12 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Ioan Iacob, Iulian Madalin Ionita
The Anatomy of Wiper Malware, Part 1: Common Techniques
Apostle CaddyWiper DEADWOOD DistTrack DoubleZero DUSTMAN HermeticWiper IsaacWiper IsraBye KillDisk Meteor Olympic Destroyer Ordinypt Petya Sierra(Alfa,Bravo, ...) StoneDrill WhisperGate ZeroCleare
2022-06-06 ⋅ Trellix ⋅ Trelix
Growling Bears Make Thunderous Noise
Cobalt Strike HermeticWiper WhisperGate NB65
2022-06-02 ⋅ Eclypsium ⋅ Eclypsium
Conti Targets Critical Firmware
Conti HermeticWiper TrickBot WhisperGate
2022-05-19 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Alden Wahlstrom, Alice Revelli, David Mainor, Ryan Serabian, Sam Riddell
The IO Offensive: Information Operations Surrounding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
HermeticWiper PartyTicket
2022-05-02 ⋅ AT&T ⋅ Fernando Martinez
Analysis on recent wiper attacks: examples and how wiper malware works
AcidRain CaddyWiper DoubleZero HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 IsaacWiper
2022-04-28 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ Gergely Revay
An Overview of the Increasing Wiper Malware Threat
AcidRain CaddyWiper DistTrack DoubleZero EternalPetya HermeticWiper IsaacWiper Olympic Destroyer Ordinypt WhisperGate ZeroCleare
2022-04-27 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Digital Security Unit (DSU)
Special Report: Ukraine An overview of Russia’s cyberattack activity in Ukraine
CaddyWiper DoubleZero HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 IsaacWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-04-07 ⋅ InQuest ⋅ Nick Chalard, Will MacArthur
Ukraine CyberWar Overview
CyclopsBlink Cobalt Strike GraphSteel GrimPlant HermeticWiper HermeticWizard MicroBackdoor PartyTicket Saint Bot Scieron WhisperGate
2022-03-25 ⋅ GOV.UA ⋅ State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine (CIP)
Who is behind the Cyberattacks on Ukraine's Critical Information Infrastructure: Statistics for March 15-22
Xloader Agent Tesla CaddyWiper Cobalt Strike DoubleZero GraphSteel GrimPlant HeaderTip HermeticWiper IsaacWiper MicroBackdoor Pandora RAT
2022-03-24 ⋅ NextGov ⋅ Brandi Vincent
Ukrainian Cyber Lead Says ‘At Least 4 Types of Malware’ in Use to Target Critical Infrastructure and Humanitarian Aid
CaddyWiper DoubleZero HermeticWiper IsaacWiper
2022-03-21 ⋅ eSentire ⋅ eSentire
eSentire Threat Intelligence Malware Analysis: HermeticWiper & PartyTicket
HermeticWiper PartyTicket
2022-03-17 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
Threat Thursday: HermeticWiper Targets Defense Sectors in Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-03-14 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ GReAT
Webinar on cyberattacks in Ukraine – summary and Q&A
HermeticWiper HermeticWizard IsaacWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-03-11 ⋅ Bitdefender ⋅ Radu Crahmaliuc
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cyberwar in Ukraine
HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-03-11 ⋅ Security Boulevard ⋅ Teri Robinson
IsaacWiper Followed HermeticWiper Attack on Ukraine Orgs
HermeticWiper IsaacWiper
2022-03-10 ⋅ BrightTALK (Kaspersky GReAT) ⋅ Costin Raiu, Dan Demeter, Ivan Kwiatkowski, Kurt Baumgartner, Marco Preuss
BrightTALK: A look at current cyberattacks in Ukraine
HermeticWiper HermeticWizard IsaacWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-03-10 ⋅ splunk ⋅ Splunk Threat Research Team
Detecting HermeticWiper
HermeticWiper PartyTicket
2022-03-10 ⋅ Brandefense ⋅ Brandefense
HermeticWiper - Technical Analysis Report
HermeticWiper
2022-03-04 ⋅ Github (eln0ty) ⋅ Abdallah Elnoty
HermeticWiper/FoxBlade Analysis (in-depth)
HermeticWiper
2022-03-04 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence
HermeticWiper: A detailed analysis of the destructive malware that targeted Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-03-04 ⋅ vmware ⋅ Giovanni Vigna, Oleg Boyarchuk, Stefano Ortolani, Threat Analysis Unit
Hermetic Malware: Multi-component Threat Targeting Ukraine Organizations
HermeticWiper
2022-03-04 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ James Sadowski, Ryan Hall
Responses to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Likely to Spur Retaliation
HermeticWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-03-03 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Trend Micro Research
IOC Resource for Russia-Ukraine Conflict-Related Cyberattacks
ClipBanker Conti HermeticWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-03-03 ⋅ LIFARS ⋅ LIFARS
A Closer Look at the Russian Actors Targeting Organizations in Ukraine
HermeticWiper IsaacWiper Saint Bot WhisperGate
2022-03-03 ⋅ Cloudsek ⋅ Anandeshwar Unnikrishnan, Deepanjli Paulraj
Technical Analysis of The Hermetic Wiper Malware Used to Target Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-03-03 ⋅ ⋅ YouTube (MBSD) ⋅ MBSD
Infection and explanation of "Hermetic Wiper", a destructive malware targeting Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-03-02 ⋅ Recorded Future ⋅ Insikt Group
HermeticWiper and PartyTicket Targeting Computers in Ukraine
HermeticWiper PartyTicket
2022-03-02 ⋅ Trellix ⋅ Max Kersten
Digging into HermeticWiper
HermeticWiper
2022-03-01 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Kaspersky
Ransomware as a distraction
HermeticWiper PartyTicket
2022-03-01 ⋅ Elastic ⋅ Andrew Pease, Cyril François, Daniel Stepanic, Github (@1337-42), Github (@ayfaouzi), Github (@jtnk), Mark Mager, Samir Bousseaden
Elastic protects against data wiper malware targeting Ukraine: HERMETICWIPER
HermeticWiper
2022-03-01 ⋅ Threat Post ⋅ Lisa Vaas
Ukraine Hit with Novel ‘FoxBlade’ Trojan Hours Before Invasion
HermeticWiper
2022-03-01 ⋅ DeepInstinct ⋅ Ido Kringel
What is HermeticWiper – An Analysis of the Malware and Larger Threat Landscape in the Russian Ukrainian War
HermeticWiper
2022-03-01 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ ESET Research
IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New wiper and worm targeting Ukraine
HermeticWiper IsaacWiper PartyTicket
2022-03-01 ⋅ Qualys ⋅ Mayuresh Dani
Ukrainian Targets Hit by HermeticWiper, New Datawiper Malware
HermeticWiper
2022-03-01 ⋅ Marco Ramilli's Blog ⋅ Marco Ramilli
DiskKill/HermeticWiper and NotPetya (Dis)similarities
EternalPetya HermeticWiper
2022-02-28 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ MSRC Team
Cyber threat activity in Ukraine: analysis and resources
CaddyWiper DesertBlade DoubleZero HermeticWiper INDUSTROYER2 IsaacWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate DEV-0586
2022-02-28 ⋅ Trellix ⋅ Taylor Mullins
Trellix Global Defenders: Cyberattacks Targeting Ukraine and HermeticWiper Protections
HermeticWiper
2022-02-28 ⋅ ZDNet ⋅ Jonathan Greig
Microsoft finds FoxBlade malware on Ukrainian systems, removes RT from Windows app store
HermeticWiper
2022-02-28 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ MSRC Team
Cyber threat activity in Ukraine: analysis and resources
HermeticWiper IsaacWiper PartyTicket WhisperGate
2022-02-28 ⋅ Microsoft Sentinel 101 ⋅ mzorich
Detecting malware kill chains with Defender and Microsoft Sentinel
HermeticWiper
2022-02-26 ⋅ Yoroi ⋅ Carmelo Ragusa, Luca Mella, Luigi Martire
DiskKill/HermeticWiper, a disruptive cyber-weapon targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructures
HermeticWiper
2022-02-26 ⋅ CISA
Alert (AA22-057A) Destructive Malware Targeting Organizations in Ukraine
HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-02-26 ⋅ CISA ⋅ CISA, FBI
Destructive Malware Targeting Organizations in Ukraine
HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-02-25 ⋅ The Hacker News ⋅ Ravie Lakshmanan
Putin Warns Russian Critical Infrastructure to Brace for Potential Cyber Attacks
HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-02-25 ⋅ Twitter (@fr0gger) ⋅ Thomas Roccia
Tweets with an overview of HermeticWiper
HermeticWiper
2022-02-25 ⋅ SOCRadar ⋅ SOCRadar
What You Need to Know About Russian Cyber Escalation in Ukraine
Mirai HermeticWiper
2022-02-25 ⋅ CyberPeace Institute
UKRAINE: Timeline of Cyberattacks
VPNFilter EternalPetya HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-02-25 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ Counter Threat Unit ResearchTeam
Disruptive HermeticWiper Attacks Targeting Ukrainian Organizations
HermeticWiper
2022-02-25 ⋅ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Cybersicherheit ⋅ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Cybersicherheit (DGC)
Breaking news! Warning about “HermeticWiper Malware” by Russian APT Groups
HermeticWiper
2022-02-25 ⋅ EnglertOne ⋅ Thomas Englert
Reverse Engineering | Hermetic Wiper
HermeticWiper
2022-02-25 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Adrian Liviu Arsene, Farid Hendi, william thomas
CrowdStrike Falcon Protects from New Wiper Malware Used in Ukraine Cyberattacks
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ RiskIQ
RiskIQ: HermeticWiper Compromised Server Used in Attack Chain
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ IBM ⋅ Anne Jobmann, Christopher Del Fierro, Claire Zaboeva, John Dwyer, Richard Emerson
IBM Security X-Force Research Advisory: New Destructive Malware Used In Cyber Attacks on Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ Deepen Desai
HermeticWiper & resurgence of targeted attacks on Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ welivesecurity
HermeticWiper: New data‑wiping malware hits Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ ⋅ t3n ⋅ Elisabeth Urban
Cyber-Attacken auf die Ukraine: Wiper-Malware befällt „Hunderte Computer“
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ Tesorion ⋅ TESORION
Report OSINT: Russia/ Ukraine Conflict Cyberaspect
Mirai VPNFilter BlackEnergy EternalPetya HermeticWiper Industroyer WhisperGate
2022-02-24 ⋅ Cluster25
Ukraine: Analysis Of The New Disk-Wiping Malware (HermeticWiper)
HermeticWiper
2022-02-24 ⋅ nviso ⋅ Michel Coene
Threat Update – Ukraine & Russia conflict
EternalPetya GreyEnergy HermeticWiper Industroyer KillDisk WhisperGate
2022-02-24 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Symantec Threat Hunter Team
Ukraine: Disk-wiping Attacks Precede Russian Invasion
HermeticWiper
2022-02-23 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade
HermeticWiper | New Destructive Malware Used In Cyber Attacks on Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-02-23 ⋅ The Hacker News ⋅ Ravie Lakshmanan
New Wiper Malware Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia's Military Operation
HermeticWiper
2022-02-23 ⋅ Twitter (@threatintel) ⋅ Symantec Threat Intelligence
Tweet on new wiper malware being used in attacks on Ukraine
HermeticWiper
2022-02-23 ⋅ The Record ⋅ Catalin Cimpanu
Second data wiper attack hits Ukraine computer networks
HermeticWiper WhisperGate
2022-02-22 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Unit 42
Russia-Ukraine Crisis: How to Protect Against the Cyber Impact
HermeticWiper
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_hermeticwiper_auto (20260917 | Detects win.hermeticwiper.)
rule win_hermeticwiper_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2026-09-17"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.hermeticwiper."
        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.hermeticwiper"
        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 = { 51 6880000000 50 6a00 6a00 6800005600 56 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   6880000000           | push                0x80
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   6a00                 | push                0
            //   6a00                 | push                0
            //   6800005600           | push                0x560000
            //   56                   | push                esi

        $sequence_1 = { 56 8db54cfeffff 57 8bfe }
            // n = 4, score = 200
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   8db54cfeffff         | lea                 esi, [ebp - 0x1b4]
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   8bfe                 | mov                 edi, esi

        $sequence_2 = { 03cf 74c4 8b5718 89550c 6690 0fb7fe }
            // n = 6, score = 200
            //   03cf                 | add                 ecx, edi
            //   74c4                 | je                  0xffffffc6
            //   8b5718               | mov                 edx, dword ptr [edi + 0x18]
            //   89550c               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp + 0xc], edx
            //   6690                 | nop                 
            //   0fb7fe               | movzx               edi, si

        $sequence_3 = { ff770c 8d44244c c744241400000000 68???????? 6804010000 50 ff15???????? }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   ff770c               | push                dword ptr [edi + 0xc]
            //   8d44244c             | lea                 eax, [esp + 0x4c]
            //   c744241400000000     | mov                 dword ptr [esp + 0x14], 0
            //   68????????           |                     
            //   6804010000           | push                0x104
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   ff15????????         |                     

        $sequence_4 = { 8b35???????? 83c410 85db 0f848f000000 83fbff 0f8486000000 8d442410 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   8b35????????         |                     
            //   83c410               | add                 esp, 0x10
            //   85db                 | test                ebx, ebx
            //   0f848f000000         | je                  0x95
            //   83fbff               | cmp                 ebx, -1
            //   0f8486000000         | je                  0x8c
            //   8d442410             | lea                 eax, [esp + 0x10]

        $sequence_5 = { 0f85d8010000 8b4710 89442418 8b4714 89442428 8b7710 }
            // n = 6, score = 200
            //   0f85d8010000         | jne                 0x1de
            //   8b4710               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [edi + 0x10]
            //   89442418             | mov                 dword ptr [esp + 0x18], eax
            //   8b4714               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [edi + 0x14]
            //   89442428             | mov                 dword ptr [esp + 0x28], eax
            //   8b7710               | mov                 esi, dword ptr [edi + 0x10]

        $sequence_6 = { bfc0240000 57 6a08 ff15???????? 50 ff15???????? 6a00 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   bfc0240000           | mov                 edi, 0x24c0
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   6a08                 | push                8
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   6a00                 | push                0

        $sequence_7 = { 83c702 8bcf 2bce d1f9 83f903 7419 49 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   83c702               | add                 edi, 2
            //   8bcf                 | mov                 ecx, edi
            //   2bce                 | sub                 ecx, esi
            //   d1f9                 | sar                 ecx, 1
            //   83f903               | cmp                 ecx, 3
            //   7419                 | je                  0x1b
            //   49                   | dec                 ecx

        $sequence_8 = { 53 ffd6 85db 7405 83fbff }
            // n = 5, score = 200
            //   53                   | push                ebx
            //   ffd6                 | call                esi
            //   85db                 | test                ebx, ebx
            //   7405                 | je                  7
            //   83fbff               | cmp                 ebx, -1

        $sequence_9 = { d3e7 0bf8 8b5dcc 8b4ddc 8b45e4 3bcb 7509 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   d3e7                 | shl                 edi, cl
            //   0bf8                 | or                  edi, eax
            //   8b5dcc               | mov                 ebx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x34]
            //   8b4ddc               | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x24]
            //   8b45e4               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c]
            //   3bcb                 | cmp                 ecx, ebx
            //   7509                 | jne                 0xb

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 247808
}
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