According to Trend Micro, this is a loader for win.transbox, used by threat actor Earth Yako.
rule win_mirrorkey_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.mirrorkey." 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.mirrorkey" 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 = { 41 8b7508 03c8 8a1431 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 41 | inc ecx // 8b7508 | mov esi, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 03c8 | add ecx, eax // 8a1431 | mov dl, byte ptr [ecx + esi] $sequence_1 = { 8945f8 8b441720 03c7 8945fc } // n = 4, score = 100 // 8945f8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 8], eax // 8b441720 | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + edx + 0x20] // 03c7 | add eax, edi // 8945fc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], eax $sequence_2 = { 8a1c19 8d4f01 81e103000080 7905 49 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8a1c19 | mov bl, byte ptr [ecx + ebx] // 8d4f01 | lea ecx, [edi + 1] // 81e103000080 | and ecx, 0x80000003 // 7905 | jns 7 // 49 | dec ecx $sequence_3 = { 8a5c1001 84db 7454 8bb5e8feffff } // n = 4, score = 100 // 8a5c1001 | mov bl, byte ptr [eax + edx + 1] // 84db | test bl, bl // 7454 | je 0x56 // 8bb5e8feffff | mov esi, dword ptr [ebp - 0x118] $sequence_4 = { 8b7908 8b4d08 8b44171c 8b5c1718 03c7 8945ec } // n = 6, score = 100 // 8b7908 | mov edi, dword ptr [ecx + 8] // 8b4d08 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 8b44171c | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + edx + 0x1c] // 8b5c1718 | mov ebx, dword ptr [edi + edx + 0x18] // 03c7 | add eax, edi // 8945ec | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], eax $sequence_5 = { ff15???????? 8b4310 6a00 6a01 56 } // n = 5, score = 100 // ff15???????? | // 8b4310 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebx + 0x10] // 6a00 | push 0 // 6a01 | push 1 // 56 | push esi $sequence_6 = { 895dfc 6690 a1???????? be01000000 8b3d???????? a3???????? b8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // 895dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], ebx // 6690 | nop // a1???????? | // be01000000 | mov esi, 1 // 8b3d???????? | // a3???????? | // b8???????? | $sequence_7 = { 8d4901 0fb642ff 3041ff 0fb64203 304103 0fb64207 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 8d4901 | lea ecx, [ecx + 1] // 0fb642ff | movzx eax, byte ptr [edx - 1] // 3041ff | xor byte ptr [ecx - 1], al // 0fb64203 | movzx eax, byte ptr [edx + 3] // 304103 | xor byte ptr [ecx + 3], al // 0fb64207 | movzx eax, byte ptr [edx + 7] $sequence_8 = { 50 8d45f8 50 e8???????? 8b4df8 56 8b4914 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // 8d45f8 | lea eax, [ebp - 8] // 50 | push eax // e8???????? | // 8b4df8 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 56 | push esi // 8b4914 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ecx + 0x14] $sequence_9 = { 03c7 8945ec 8b441724 03c7 8945f8 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 03c7 | add eax, edi // 8945ec | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], eax // 8b441724 | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + edx + 0x24] // 03c7 | add eax, edi // 8945f8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 8], eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 117760 }
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