Ransomware. Identical samples (apart from note) operated by Morpheus and HellCat ransomware groups.
rule win_morpheus_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.morpheus." 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.morpheus" 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 = { 488d8c2470030000 ff15???????? 488d15f90b0000 488d8c2470030000 ff15???????? 488d8c2470030000 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 488d8c2470030000 | lea edx, [esp + 0x134] // ff15???????? | // 488d15f90b0000 | dec eax // 488d8c2470030000 | mov ecx, dword ptr [esp + 0x58] // ff15???????? | // 488d8c2470030000 | mov edx, 0x10000 $sequence_1 = { eb7d c744244802000000 488b842490000000 4889442440 8b442450 } // n = 5, score = 200 // eb7d | dec esp // c744244802000000 | mov eax, eax // 488b842490000000 | dec eax // 4889442440 | mov ecx, dword ptr [esp + 0x38] // 8b442450 | dec eax $sequence_2 = { 85c0 7426 c644242801 4c8b442430 ba00000100 488b0d???????? } // n = 6, score = 200 // 85c0 | inc ecx // 7426 | mov ecx, 2 // c644242801 | mov eax, 0x5f // 4c8b442430 | mov word ptr [esp + 0xc0], ax // ba00000100 | mov eax, 0x2d // 488b0d???????? | $sequence_3 = { b902000000 486bc900 488b542458 6689040a b802000000 486bc001 } // n = 6, score = 200 // b902000000 | dec eax // 486bc900 | cmp dword ptr [esp + 0x110], 0 // 488b542458 | je 0x158 // 6689040a | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x44] // b802000000 | xor ecx, ecx // 486bc001 | dec eax $sequence_4 = { 4883c002 4889842468010000 83bc241401000000 740c 8b442444 ffc0 89442444 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 4883c002 | dec eax // 4889842468010000 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x68] // 83bc241401000000 | movzx eax, word ptr [eax] // 740c | dec eax // 8b442444 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x70] // ffc0 | movzx eax, word ptr [eax] // 89442444 | test eax, eax $sequence_5 = { c744246000000000 eb14 8b442460 ffc0 89442460 } // n = 5, score = 200 // c744246000000000 | dec eax // eb14 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x60] // 8b442460 | dec eax // ffc0 | add eax, 2 // 89442460 | dec eax $sequence_6 = { 85c0 7412 488b842488000000 4889842490010000 eb25 488b842488000000 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 85c0 | mov eax, eax // 7412 | mov edx, 8 // 488b842488000000 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x30] // 4889842490010000 | inc eax // eb25 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x30], eax // 488b842488000000 | jmp 0x1761 $sequence_7 = { 750a c744245801000000 eb08 c744245800000000 0fb6442458 88442422 } // n = 6, score = 200 // 750a | jmp 0x1382 // c744245801000000 | movzx eax, byte ptr [esp + 0x28] // eb08 | test eax, eax // c744245800000000 | jne 0x1388 // 0fb6442458 | dec eax // 88442422 | mov ecx, dword ptr [esp + 0x420] $sequence_8 = { 88442422 0fb6442422 85c0 7405 e9???????? 488b842420040000 4889842458010000 } // n = 7, score = 200 // 88442422 | dec eax // 0fb6442422 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x100], eax // 85c0 | dec eax // 7405 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x108] // e9???????? | // 488b842420040000 | dec eax // 4889842458010000 | add eax, 2 $sequence_9 = { 488b842480010000 4883c002 4889842480010000 83bc243001000000 740c } // n = 5, score = 200 // 488b842480010000 | dec eax // 4883c002 | sub eax, 0xd // 4889842480010000 | dec eax // 83bc243001000000 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x100], eax // 740c | inc ebp condition: 7 of them and filesize < 74752 }
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