Actor(s): Lazarus Group
REDSHAWL is a session hijacking utility that starts a new process as another user currently logged on to the same system via command-line.
rule win_redshawl_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-01-05" version = "1" description = "Detects win.redshawl." 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.redshawl" 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 = { 4889442438 895c2430 4489642428 4c89642420 4533c9 4c8bc6 488d942430010000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 4889442438 | mov ecx, esi // 895c2430 | dec eax // 4489642428 | mov ecx, eax // 4c89642420 | dec eax // 4533c9 | lea edx, [0xa2c1] // 4c8bc6 | dec ecx // 488d942430010000 | mov ecx, esp $sequence_1 = { 488b4c2448 e8???????? 90 90 e9???????? 488d542450 418bcc } // n = 7, score = 100 // 488b4c2448 | inc ebx // e8???????? | // 90 | dec eax // 90 | inc ecx // e9???????? | // 488d542450 | test al, al // 418bcc | jne 0x83 $sequence_2 = { 7329 4863d1 488d0d90770000 488bc2 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 7329 | dec eax // 4863d1 | mov dword ptr [esp + 8], ebx // 488d0d90770000 | push edi // 488bc2 | dec eax $sequence_3 = { 488d8c2431010000 e8???????? ba04010000 488d8c2440020000 ff15???????? 4c8bde 488d8c2430010000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 488d8c2431010000 | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x48] // e8???????? | // ba04010000 | dec eax // 488d8c2440020000 | lea edx, [esp + 0x6c] // ff15???????? | // 4c8bde | dec eax // 488d8c2430010000 | lea ecx, [0x9f96] $sequence_4 = { 3b3d???????? 737d 488bdf 488bf7 48c1fe05 4c8d25ea7e0000 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 3b3d???????? | // 737d | lea edx, [0x7deb] // 488bdf | dec eax // 488bf7 | sar eax, 5 // 48c1fe05 | and ecx, 0x1f // 4c8d25ea7e0000 | dec eax $sequence_5 = { 4c8be9 488b05???????? 4885c0 0f8436010000 48833d????????00 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 4c8be9 | mov ecx, 0x1100 // 488b05???????? | // 4885c0 | dec esp // 0f8436010000 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0xb8] // 48833d????????00 | $sequence_6 = { 48895c2408 57 4883ec20 488d1d0b6d0000 488d3d046d0000 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 48895c2408 | dec esp // 57 | lea esp, [0x9455] // 4883ec20 | mov dword ptr [eax - 0x58], 0 // 488d1d0b6d0000 | or esi, 0xffffffff // 488d3d046d0000 | mov dword ptr [eax + 8], esi $sequence_7 = { 7532 488d0d239d0000 e8???????? ff15???????? 89442460 488d150c000000 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 7532 | dec eax // 488d0d239d0000 | test eax, eax // e8???????? | // ff15???????? | // 89442460 | je 0x542 // 488d150c000000 | dec eax $sequence_8 = { 8364242800 41b803000000 488d0d6c320000 4533c9 ba00000040 4489442420 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 8364242800 | dec eax // 41b803000000 | dec esi // 488d0d6c320000 | jne 0x159 // 4533c9 | dec eax // ba00000040 | lea ebx, [0x98d7] // 4489442420 | dec eax $sequence_9 = { 418bcc e8???????? 8bd8 89442440 85c0 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 418bcc | inc ebp // e8???????? | // 8bd8 | test esp, esp // 89442440 | jne 0xa23 // 85c0 | dec eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 174080 }
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