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win.rombertik (Back to overview)

Rombertik

aka: CarbonGrabber
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References
2015-05-04 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Alex Chiu, Ben Baker
Threat Spotlight: Rombertik – Gazing Past the Smoke, Mirrors, and Trapdoors
Rombertik
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_auto (20260917 | Detects win.rombertik.)
rule win_rombertik_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2026-09-17"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.rombertik."
        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.rombertik"
        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 = { 57 ff15???????? 8bf0 85f6 742c 8b4508 }
            // n = 6, score = 200
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   8bf0                 | mov                 esi, eax
            //   85f6                 | test                esi, esi
            //   742c                 | je                  0x2e
            //   8b4508               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8]

        $sequence_1 = { 75f8 8b15???????? 8910 668b0d???????? 66894804 b8???????? }
            // n = 6, score = 200
            //   75f8                 | jne                 0xfffffffa
            //   8b15????????         |                     
            //   8910                 | mov                 dword ptr [eax], edx
            //   668b0d????????       |                     
            //   66894804             | mov                 word ptr [eax + 4], cx
            //   b8????????           |                     

        $sequence_2 = { 57 50 8b4514 51 8b4d10 52 8b5508 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8b4514               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0x14]
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   8b4d10               | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x10]
            //   52                   | push                edx
            //   8b5508               | mov                 edx, dword ptr [ebp + 8]

        $sequence_3 = { ff15???????? 8d8ddcfdffff 8bf0 51 56 }
            // n = 5, score = 200
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   8d8ddcfdffff         | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x224]
            //   8bf0                 | mov                 esi, eax
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   56                   | push                esi

        $sequence_4 = { 56 ff15???????? 33db 8bcf e8???????? 50 8d8dfcfeffff }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   33db                 | xor                 ebx, ebx
            //   8bcf                 | mov                 ecx, edi
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8d8dfcfeffff         | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x104]

        $sequence_5 = { 57 ffd6 85c0 0f843f010000 68???????? 57 ffd6 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   ffd6                 | call                esi
            //   85c0                 | test                eax, eax
            //   0f843f010000         | je                  0x145
            //   68????????           |                     
            //   57                   | push                edi
            //   ffd6                 | call                esi

        $sequence_6 = { ff15???????? 8bf0 85f6 742c 8b4508 8d5001 8da42400000000 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   8bf0                 | mov                 esi, eax
            //   85f6                 | test                esi, esi
            //   742c                 | je                  0x2e
            //   8b4508               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp + 8]
            //   8d5001               | lea                 edx, [eax + 1]
            //   8da42400000000       | lea                 esp, [esp]

        $sequence_7 = { 50 51 e8???????? 83c414 8bc7 }
            // n = 5, score = 200
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   83c414               | add                 esp, 0x14
            //   8bc7                 | mov                 eax, edi

        $sequence_8 = { 55 8bec 83ec08 56 8b35???????? 6a00 6a01 }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   55                   | push                ebp
            //   8bec                 | mov                 ebp, esp
            //   83ec08               | sub                 esp, 8
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   8b35????????         |                     
            //   6a00                 | push                0
            //   6a01                 | push                1

        $sequence_9 = { 8b75fc 56 6a00 ff15???????? 50 ff15???????? 5e }
            // n = 7, score = 200
            //   8b75fc               | mov                 esi, dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   6a00                 | push                0
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   5e                   | pop                 esi

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 73728
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_w0   (20170521 | Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik - file Copy#064046.scr)
rule win_rombertik_w0 {
	meta:
		author = "Florian Roth"
		description = "Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik - file Copy#064046.scr"
		reference = "http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik"
		date = "2015-05-05"
		hash = "2f9b26b90311e62662c5946a1ac600d2996d3758"
		hash = "aeb94064af2a6107a14fd32f39cb502e704cd0ab"
		hash = "c2005c8d1a79da5e02e6a15d00151018658c264c" 
		hash = "98223d4ec272d3a631498b621618d875dd32161d" 	
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.rombertik"
        malpedia_version = "20170521"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
        
	strings:
		$x1 = "ZwGetWriteWatch" fullword ascii
		$x2 = "OutputDebugStringA" fullword ascii
		$x3 = "malwar" fullword ascii
		$x4 = "sampl" fullword ascii
		$x5 = "viru" fullword ascii
		$x6 = "sandb" fullword ascii
		
	condition:
		uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 5MB and all of them
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_w1   (20170521 | Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik panel install script - file install.php)
rule win_rombertik_w1 {
	meta:
		description = "Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik panel install script - file install.php"
		author = "Florian Roth"
		reference = "http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik"
		date = "2015-05-05"
		hash = "cd6c152dd1e0689e0bede30a8bd07fef465fbcfa"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.rombertik"
        malpedia_version = "20170521"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
        
	strings:
		$s0 = "$insert = \"INSERT INTO `logs` (`id`, `ip`, `name`, `host`, `post`, `time`, `bro" ascii
		$s3 = "`post` text NOT NULL," fullword ascii
		$s4 = "`host` text NOT NULL," fullword ascii
		$s5 = ") ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 ;\" ;" fullword ascii
		$s6 = "$db->exec($columns); //or die(print_r($db->errorInfo(), true));;" fullword ascii
		$s9 = "$db->exec($insert);" fullword ascii
		$s10 = "`browser` text NOT NULL," fullword ascii
		$s13 = "`ip` text NOT NULL," fullword ascii
		
	condition:
		filesize < 3KB and all of them
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_w2   (20170521 | Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Panel - file index.php)
rule win_rombertik_w2 {
	meta:
		description = "Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Panel - file index.php"
		author = "Florian Roth"
		reference = "http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik"
		date = "2015-05-05"
		hash = "e6e9e4fc3772ff33bbeeda51f217e9149db60082"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.rombertik"
        malpedia_version = "20170521"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
        
	strings:
		$s0 = "echo '<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=index.php?a=login\">';" fullword ascii
		$s1 = "echo '<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"2;url='.$website.'/index.php?a=login" ascii
		$s2 = "header(\"location: $website/index.php?a=login\");" fullword ascii
		$s3 = "$insertLogSQL -> execute(array(':id' => NULL, ':ip' => $ip, ':name' => $name, ':" ascii
		$s16 = "if($_POST['username'] == $username && $_POST['password'] == $password){" fullword ascii
		$s17 = "$SQL = $db -> prepare(\"TRUNCATE TABLE `logs`\");" fullword ascii
		
	condition:
		filesize < 46KB and all of them
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_w3   (20170521 | Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Builder - file Builder.exe)
rule win_rombertik_w3 {
	meta:
		description = "Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Builder - file Builder.exe"
		author = "Florian Roth"
		reference = "http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik"
		date = "2015-05-05"
		hash = "b50ecc0ba3d6ec19b53efe505d14276e9e71285f"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.rombertik"
        malpedia_version = "20170521"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
        
	strings:
		$s0 = "c:\\users\\iden\\documents\\visual studio 2010\\Projects\\FormGrabberBuilderC++" ascii
		$s1 = "Host(www.panel.com): " fullword ascii
		$s2 = "Path(/form/index.php?a=insert): " fullword ascii
		$s3 = "FileName: " fullword ascii
		$s4 = "~Rich8" fullword ascii
		
	condition:
		uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 35KB and all of them
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_rombertik_w4   (20170521 | Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Builder Server - file Server.exe)
rule win_rombertik_w4 {
	meta:
		description = "Detects CarbonGrabber alias Rombertik Builder Server - file Server.exe"
		author = "Florian Roth"
		reference = "http://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/rombertik"
		date = "2015-05-05"
		hash = "895fab8d55882eac51d4b27a188aa67205ff0ae5"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.rombertik"
        malpedia_version = "20170521"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"
        
	strings:
		$s0 = "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\svchost.exe" fullword ascii
		$s3 = "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Currentversion\\RunOnce" fullword ascii
		$s4 = "chrome.exe" fullword ascii
		$s5 = "firefox.exe" fullword ascii
		$s6 = "chrome.dll" fullword ascii
		$s7 = "@KERNEL32.DLL" fullword wide
		$s8 = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome" ascii
		$s10 = "&post=" fullword ascii
		$s11 = "&host=" fullword ascii
		$s12 = "Ws2_32.dll" fullword ascii
		$s16 = "&browser=" fullword ascii
		
	condition:
		uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 250KB and 8 of them
}
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