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 = "2026-01-05" 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 = "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 = { 56 8d4db8 c745cc0f000000 c745c800000000 c645b800 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 56 | push esi // 8d4db8 | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x48] // c745cc0f000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x34], 0xf // c745c800000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x38], 0 // c645b800 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 0x48], 0 $sequence_1 = { 50 68???????? 53 c745a400000000 e8???????? 0fbe4317 8d4da8 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // 68???????? | // 53 | push ebx // c745a400000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x5c], 0 // e8???????? | // 0fbe4317 | movsx eax, byte ptr [ebx + 0x17] // 8d4da8 | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x58] $sequence_2 = { 8b06 eb02 8bc6 c60000 c745fc00000000 8bce a1???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8b06 | mov eax, dword ptr [esi] // eb02 | jmp 4 // 8bc6 | mov eax, esi // c60000 | mov byte ptr [eax], 0 // c745fc00000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], 0 // 8bce | mov ecx, esi // a1???????? | $sequence_3 = { 7406 8a740608 eb03 8a76fc 85c0 752f } // n = 6, score = 100 // 7406 | je 8 // 8a740608 | mov dh, byte ptr [esi + eax + 8] // eb03 | jmp 5 // 8a76fc | mov dh, byte ptr [esi - 4] // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 752f | jne 0x31 $sequence_4 = { 88442433 8d7808 0f1f440000 53 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 88442433 | mov byte ptr [esp + 0x33], al // 8d7808 | lea edi, [eax + 8] // 0f1f440000 | nop dword ptr [eax + eax] // 53 | push ebx $sequence_5 = { 50 e8???????? ff75fc 8d45fc ff75f8 50 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // e8???????? | // ff75fc | push dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 8d45fc | lea eax, [ebp - 4] // ff75f8 | push dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 50 | push eax $sequence_6 = { 8b85f4feffff 33f6 3930 7446 33db } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8b85f4feffff | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x10c] // 33f6 | xor esi, esi // 3930 | cmp dword ptr [eax], esi // 7446 | je 0x48 // 33db | xor ebx, ebx $sequence_7 = { 56 ff15???????? 5f 5e c7430400000000 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 56 | push esi // ff15???????? | // 5f | pop edi // 5e | pop esi // c7430400000000 | mov dword ptr [ebx + 4], 0 $sequence_8 = { 32d3 2503000080 7905 48 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 32d3 | xor dl, bl // 2503000080 | and eax, 0x80000003 // 7905 | jns 7 // 48 | dec eax $sequence_9 = { 85c0 7405 8a0c06 eb03 8a4ef4 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 7405 | je 7 // 8a0c06 | mov cl, byte ptr [esi + eax] // eb03 | jmp 5 // 8a4ef4 | mov cl, byte ptr [esi - 0xc] condition: 7 of them and filesize < 117760 }
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