Modular x86/x64 file infector created/used by Maze ransomware developer. According to the author, it has been mistakenly tagged by AVs as Expiro.
rule win_m0yv_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-01-05" version = "1" description = "Detects win.m0yv." 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.m0yv" malpedia_rule_date = "20260105" malpedia_hash = "19b79e7cab4eaf532122e5b45a77dd8f6bb5cc79" malpedia_version = "20251219" 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 = { 4589d1 41c1f919 4501c1 4589c8 41c1f81a 4501d8 8811 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4589d1 | dec esp // 41c1f919 | mov dword ptr [esp + 8], ebx // 4501c1 | dec ebp // 4589c8 | imul edx, edi // 41c1f81a | dec ebp // 4501d8 | imul ecx, edi // 8811 | dec esp $sequence_1 = { 4889ce e8???????? 31ff 4885db 744f 85c0 744b } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4889ce | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // e8???????? | // 31ff | mov eax, dword ptr [eax + 8] // 4885db | add eax, -1 // 744f | dec ecx // 85c0 | cmp edi, eax // 744b | test eax, eax $sequence_2 = { 7418 4180783c02 755f 418ac3 24f0 3c40 7556 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 7418 | xor ebx, eax // 4180783c02 | mov dword ptr [esp + esi*4 + 0x1004], ebx // 755f | dec eax // 418ac3 | add esi, 2 // 24f0 | inc esp // 3c40 | xor ebp, edi // 7556 | dec eax $sequence_3 = { 4801d8 480500000001 4803542420 4889c5 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 4801d8 | xor al, byte ptr [ecx + 0x1d] // 480500000001 | inc esp // 4803542420 | or al, dl // 4889c5 | inc esp $sequence_4 = { b918000000 ff10 4885c0 740b c70002000000 897008 eb02 } // n = 7, score = 100 // b918000000 | dec eax // ff10 | imul edi, dword ptr [esp + 0x10] // 4885c0 | dec eax // 740b | add ecx, edi // c70002000000 | dec esp // 897008 | mov edi, edi // eb02 | dec ecx $sequence_5 = { 4d89ea 4a035cee08 4831cf 4889c1 48c1c11e 4889c6 4931fc } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4d89ea | inc ecx // 4a035cee08 | mov byte ptr [eax + 0x5f], bh // 4831cf | inc ecx // 4889c1 | mov byte ptr [eax + 0x5e], ch // 48c1c11e | inc ebp // 4889c6 | test cl, cl // 4931fc | je 0x2a3 $sequence_6 = { 4889f2 e8???????? 4c89e1 4c89e2 4989d8 e8???????? 4c8d4778 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4889f2 | movsx ebp, byte ptr [esi + ecx] // e8???????? | // 4c89e1 | test ebp, ebp // 4c89e2 | je 0x38b // 4989d8 | lea ecx, [ebp - 9] // e8???????? | // 4c8d4778 | cmp ecx, 0x54 $sequence_7 = { 4869c2182d0700 4901c3 4c69d5d1150200 4d01fa 4869c267fb0900 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 4869c2182d0700 | shr edi, cl // 4901c3 | inc ecx // 4c69d5d1150200 | and edi, 1 // 4d01fa | inc esp // 4869c267fb0900 | movzx eax, byte ptr [ecx + 0xa6] $sequence_8 = { 4889dd 480fafee 4889ac2488000000 4c8d3c36 480faff6 4801ce 48635810 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4889dd | and edx, 0x1fffff // 480fafee | dec eax // 4889ac2488000000 | shr ebp, 6 // 4c8d3c36 | inc eax // 480faff6 | mov byte ptr [edi + 6], ch // 4801ce | mov esi, edx // 48635810 | mov byte ptr [edi + 0xa], dl $sequence_9 = { b918000000 ff17 4885c0 7433 4889c6 c70006000000 } // n = 6, score = 100 // b918000000 | dec eax // ff17 | mov ecx, eax // 4885c0 | dec eax // 7433 | lea edx, [0x15c50] // 4889c6 | dec ecx // c70006000000 | cmp edi, ecx condition: 7 of them and filesize < 779264 }
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