According to Recorded Future, IsaacWiper is a destructive malware that overwrites all physical disks and logical volumes on a victim’s machine.
rule win_isaacwiper_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-05-04" version = "1" description = "Detects win.isaacwiper." 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.isaacwiper" 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 = { 6683bdccfdffff00 7409 83c002 66833800 75f7 8d8dccfdffff 8bd3 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 6683bdccfdffff00 | cmp word ptr [ebp - 0x234], 0 // 7409 | je 0xb // 83c002 | add eax, 2 // 66833800 | cmp word ptr [eax], 0 // 75f7 | jne 0xfffffff9 // 8d8dccfdffff | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x234] // 8bd3 | mov edx, ebx $sequence_1 = { 8b01 56 8d7178 8b4004 c7443088d0270310 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8b01 | mov eax, dword ptr [ecx] // 56 | push esi // 8d7178 | lea esi, [ecx + 0x78] // 8b4004 | mov eax, dword ptr [eax + 4] // c7443088d0270310 | mov dword ptr [eax + esi - 0x78], 0x100327d0 $sequence_2 = { 8be5 5d c3 8bc3 c1e802 8d3c82 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 8be5 | mov esp, ebp // 5d | pop ebp // c3 | ret // 8bc3 | mov eax, ebx // c1e802 | shr eax, 2 // 8d3c82 | lea edi, [edx + eax*4] $sequence_3 = { f20f59148580f90210 660f5834c590010310 660f54c5 f20f5ce8 f20f58fa f20f10d8 } // n = 6, score = 100 // f20f59148580f90210 | mulsd xmm2, qword ptr [eax*4 + 0x1002f980] // 660f5834c590010310 | addpd xmm6, xmmword ptr [eax*8 + 0x10030190] // 660f54c5 | andpd xmm0, xmm5 // f20f5ce8 | subsd xmm5, xmm0 // f20f58fa | addsd xmm7, xmm2 // f20f10d8 | movsd xmm3, xmm0 $sequence_4 = { 8b08 85c9 742a 8b5630 8b1a } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8b08 | mov ecx, dword ptr [eax] // 85c9 | test ecx, ecx // 742a | je 0x2c // 8b5630 | mov edx, dword ptr [esi + 0x30] // 8b1a | mov ebx, dword ptr [edx] $sequence_5 = { 53 8b5d08 8b0485e8670310 56 57 8bfb } // n = 6, score = 100 // 53 | push ebx // 8b5d08 | mov ebx, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 8b0485e8670310 | mov eax, dword ptr [eax*4 + 0x100367e8] // 56 | push esi // 57 | push edi // 8bfb | mov edi, ebx $sequence_6 = { 8b4008 8b34b8 85f6 75d3 85db 7413 8d4df8 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8b4008 | mov eax, dword ptr [eax + 8] // 8b34b8 | mov esi, dword ptr [eax + edi*4] // 85f6 | test esi, esi // 75d3 | jne 0xffffffd5 // 85db | test ebx, ebx // 7413 | je 0x15 // 8d4df8 | lea ecx, [ebp - 8] $sequence_7 = { 03fb 897dfc c7473000000000 c7470800000000 c7471000000000 c7471401020000 c7471806000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 03fb | add edi, ebx // 897dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], edi // c7473000000000 | mov dword ptr [edi + 0x30], 0 // c7470800000000 | mov dword ptr [edi + 8], 0 // c7471000000000 | mov dword ptr [edi + 0x10], 0 // c7471401020000 | mov dword ptr [edi + 0x14], 0x201 // c7471806000000 | mov dword ptr [edi + 0x18], 6 $sequence_8 = { 56 ff15???????? 83f801 7521 8b45f4 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 56 | push esi // ff15???????? | // 83f801 | cmp eax, 1 // 7521 | jne 0x23 // 8b45f4 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0xc] $sequence_9 = { 3b4d10 5f 5e 0f95c0 5b 8be5 5d } // n = 7, score = 100 // 3b4d10 | cmp ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x10] // 5f | pop edi // 5e | pop esi // 0f95c0 | setne al // 5b | pop ebx // 8be5 | mov esp, ebp // 5d | pop ebp condition: 7 of them and filesize < 467968 }
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