The Chinese threat actor has used a custom backdoor dubbed "Scieron" over years in several campaigns according to SentinelLABS.
rule win_scieron_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.scieron." 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.scieron" 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 = { 5f c9 c3 55 8bec 81ec68060000 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 5f | pop edi // c9 | leave // c3 | ret // 55 | push ebp // 8bec | mov ebp, esp // 81ec68060000 | sub esp, 0x668 $sequence_1 = { 8b35???????? ffd6 ff75f0 ffd6 33c0 eb06 ff15???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8b35???????? | // ffd6 | call esi // ff75f0 | push dword ptr [ebp - 0x10] // ffd6 | call esi // 33c0 | xor eax, eax // eb06 | jmp 8 // ff15???????? | $sequence_2 = { 8974242c 8944241c ff15???????? 85c0 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 8974242c | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x2c], esi // 8944241c | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x1c], eax // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | test eax, eax $sequence_3 = { 50 8d45f8 50 8d45f7 50 8d45fc 8bce } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // 8d45f8 | lea eax, [ebp - 8] // 50 | push eax // 8d45f7 | lea eax, [ebp - 9] // 50 | push eax // 8d45fc | lea eax, [ebp - 4] // 8bce | mov ecx, esi $sequence_4 = { c3 8b44240c 668b08 40 40 6685c9 75f6 } // n = 7, score = 100 // c3 | ret // 8b44240c | mov eax, dword ptr [esp + 0xc] // 668b08 | mov cx, word ptr [eax] // 40 | inc eax // 40 | inc eax // 6685c9 | test cx, cx // 75f6 | jne 0xfffffff8 $sequence_5 = { 6bf61c 8b88c0410010 ff742414 898e08400010 8b88dc410010 898e00400010 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 6bf61c | imul esi, esi, 0x1c // 8b88c0410010 | mov ecx, dword ptr [eax + 0x100041c0] // ff742414 | push dword ptr [esp + 0x14] // 898e08400010 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x10004008], ecx // 8b88dc410010 | mov ecx, dword ptr [eax + 0x100041dc] // 898e00400010 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x10004000], ecx $sequence_6 = { 50 68???????? ffb618020000 68???????? 55 ffd3 50 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // 68???????? | // ffb618020000 | push dword ptr [esi + 0x218] // 68???????? | // 55 | push ebp // ffd3 | call ebx // 50 | push eax $sequence_7 = { ff15???????? 8b3d???????? 8b75e8 bb24020000 } // n = 4, score = 100 // ff15???????? | // 8b3d???????? | // 8b75e8 | mov esi, dword ptr [ebp - 0x18] // bb24020000 | mov ebx, 0x224 $sequence_8 = { ffd7 ffd0 83a61c02000000 83be1c02000000 0f8556010000 ffb610020000 8d84249c000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // ffd7 | call edi // ffd0 | call eax // 83a61c02000000 | and dword ptr [esi + 0x21c], 0 // 83be1c02000000 | cmp dword ptr [esi + 0x21c], 0 // 0f8556010000 | jne 0x15c // ffb610020000 | push dword ptr [esi + 0x210] // 8d84249c000000 | lea eax, [esp + 0x9c] $sequence_9 = { 8bec 56 8d470c 50 6a40 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8bec | mov ebp, esp // 56 | push esi // 8d470c | lea eax, [edi + 0xc] // 50 | push eax // 6a40 | push 0x40 condition: 7 of them and filesize < 100352 }
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