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 = "2026-05-04" 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 = "20260422" malpedia_hash = "a182e35da64e6d71cb55f125c4d4225196523f14" malpedia_version = "20260504" 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 = { ff742418 ff15???????? 85c0 0f8472020000 f686????????10 7415 } // n = 6, score = 100 // ff742418 | push dword ptr [esp + 0x18] // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 0f8472020000 | je 0x278 // f686????????10 | // 7415 | je 0x17 $sequence_1 = { 55 6a01 6800000080 83c008 50 ff15???????? 8bf8 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 55 | push ebp // 6a01 | push 1 // 6800000080 | push 0x80000000 // 83c008 | add eax, 8 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 8bf8 | mov edi, eax $sequence_2 = { 57 33ff 397d10 742e } // n = 4, score = 100 // 57 | push edi // 33ff | xor edi, edi // 397d10 | cmp dword ptr [ebp + 0x10], edi // 742e | je 0x30 $sequence_3 = { 685cee0000 8935???????? ff15???????? 68???????? 8d85e0feffff } // n = 5, score = 100 // 685cee0000 | push 0xee5c // 8935???????? | // ff15???????? | // 68???????? | // 8d85e0feffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x120] $sequence_4 = { 817c2410c8000000 756b 33c0 40 5f } // n = 5, score = 100 // 817c2410c8000000 | cmp dword ptr [esp + 0x10], 0xc8 // 756b | jne 0x6d // 33c0 | xor eax, eax // 40 | inc eax // 5f | pop edi $sequence_5 = { 85c0 75b2 57 ff15???????? } // n = 4, score = 100 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 75b2 | jne 0xffffffb4 // 57 | push edi // ff15???????? | $sequence_6 = { 6a02 56 6a01 894df4 8b5804 83c008 6800000040 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 6a02 | push 2 // 56 | push esi // 6a01 | push 1 // 894df4 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0xc], ecx // 8b5804 | mov ebx, dword ptr [eax + 4] // 83c008 | add eax, 8 // 6800000040 | push 0x40000000 $sequence_7 = { 8bf0 e8???????? 83c40c 8bf0 eb02 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 8bf0 | mov esi, eax // e8???????? | // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // 8bf0 | mov esi, eax // eb02 | jmp 4 $sequence_8 = { 3bfe 7419 8d4574 50 57 56 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 3bfe | cmp edi, esi // 7419 | je 0x1b // 8d4574 | lea eax, [ebp + 0x74] // 50 | push eax // 57 | push edi // 56 | push esi $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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