A malware of the gozi group, developed on the base of isfb. It uses Office Macros and PowerShell in documents distributed in e-mail messages.
rule win_powersniff_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-01-05" version = "1" description = "Detects win.powersniff." 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.powersniff" 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 = { 8b5dec ff75fc e8???????? 8bd8 3bde } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8b5dec | mov ebx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x14] // ff75fc | push dword ptr [ebp - 4] // e8???????? | // 8bd8 | mov ebx, eax // 3bde | cmp ebx, esi $sequence_1 = { 894df4 33ff eb08 3c0d 7408 47 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 894df4 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0xc], ecx // 33ff | xor edi, edi // eb08 | jmp 0xa // 3c0d | cmp al, 0xd // 7408 | je 0xa // 47 | inc edi $sequence_2 = { c745e04d9b0010 c745e46f910010 c745e8a2910010 c745ec549b0010 c745f0c2910010 } // n = 5, score = 100 // c745e04d9b0010 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x20], 0x10009b4d // c745e46f910010 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x1c], 0x1000916f // c745e8a2910010 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x18], 0x100091a2 // c745ec549b0010 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], 0x10009b54 // c745f0c2910010 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x10], 0x100091c2 $sequence_3 = { 8b4508 56 be???????? 57 8908 8a03 894dfc } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8b4508 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 56 | push esi // be???????? | // 57 | push edi // 8908 | mov dword ptr [eax], ecx // 8a03 | mov al, byte ptr [ebx] // 894dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], ecx $sequence_4 = { 8975ec 8b75f4 c1ee18 8b34b590740010 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 8975ec | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], esi // 8b75f4 | mov esi, dword ptr [ebp - 0xc] // c1ee18 | shr esi, 0x18 // 8b34b590740010 | mov esi, dword ptr [esi*4 + 0x10007490] $sequence_5 = { eb12 c745fc08000000 eb09 ff15???????? 8945fc 8b45fc 5f } // n = 7, score = 100 // eb12 | jmp 0x14 // c745fc08000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], 8 // eb09 | jmp 0xb // ff15???????? | // 8945fc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], eax // 8b45fc | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 4] // 5f | pop edi $sequence_6 = { 33db 43 5e 5f ff75fc ff15???????? ff75f0 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 33db | xor ebx, ebx // 43 | inc ebx // 5e | pop esi // 5f | pop edi // ff75fc | push dword ptr [ebp - 4] // ff15???????? | // ff75f0 | push dword ptr [ebp - 0x10] $sequence_7 = { 750f ff15???????? 3de5030000 750d eb09 ff7610 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 750f | jne 0x11 // ff15???????? | // 3de5030000 | cmp eax, 0x3e5 // 750d | jne 0xf // eb09 | jmp 0xb // ff7610 | push dword ptr [esi + 0x10] $sequence_8 = { ff15???????? 8bf8 897df0 3bfb 7435 8d4508 50 } // n = 7, score = 100 // ff15???????? | // 8bf8 | mov edi, eax // 897df0 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x10], edi // 3bfb | cmp edi, ebx // 7435 | je 0x37 // 8d4508 | lea eax, [ebp + 8] // 50 | push eax $sequence_9 = { 331cb590840010 c1ea18 8b349590780010 8b55f4 335808 c1ea08 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 331cb590840010 | xor ebx, dword ptr [esi*4 + 0x10008490] // c1ea18 | shr edx, 0x18 // 8b349590780010 | mov esi, dword ptr [edx*4 + 0x10007890] // 8b55f4 | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp - 0xc] // 335808 | xor ebx, dword ptr [eax + 8] // c1ea08 | shr edx, 8 condition: 7 of them and filesize < 90112 }
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