According to Cisco Talos, this is a customized shellcode loader that has been observed to stage Mimikatz and CobaltStrike.
rule win_soundbill_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-01-05" version = "1" description = "Detects win.soundbill." 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.soundbill" 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 = { 55 56 4881ecb0030000 488b05???????? 4833c4 4889842470030000 488b8424f0030000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 55 | dec ecx // 56 | mov edi, eax // 4881ecb0030000 | dec eax // 488b05???????? | // 4833c4 | sub esp, 0xd0 // 4889842470030000 | dec eax // 488b8424f0030000 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x20], 0xfffffffe $sequence_1 = { 488b8da0000000 e8???????? 4883c420 5d c3 488d8a70000000 e9???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // 488b8da0000000 | xor ebx, ebx // e8???????? | // 4883c420 | cmp byte ptr [ecx + 0x24], 0 // 5d | je 0x1c9 // c3 | dec eax // 488d8a70000000 | cmp edi, dword ptr [eax + 0x18] // e9???????? | $sequence_2 = { 750e 85c9 0f95c0 8806 83f901 760c eb03 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 750e | mov eax, dword ptr [0x30] // 85c9 | dec eax // 0f95c0 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ecx + 0x98] // 8806 | dec eax // 83f901 | cmp ecx, dword ptr [eax + 0x10] // 760c | dec esp // eb03 | lea eax, [0x3a67d] $sequence_3 = { 48894a08 488d4808 e8???????? 488d0579b00200 488903 488bc3 4883c420 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 48894a08 | mov dword ptr [ebx], 0 // 488d4808 | mov byte ptr [ebx + 8], 1 // e8???????? | // 488d0579b00200 | cmp cl, byte ptr [ebp + 0xb] // 488903 | jne 0x2144 // 488bc3 | inc ecx // 4883c420 | mov byte ptr [ebp], 0x65 $sequence_4 = { f20f5ce9 f2410f1004c1 488d15562b0100 f20f1014c2 } // n = 4, score = 100 // f20f5ce9 | jne 0x110a // f2410f1004c1 | dec esp // 488d15562b0100 | mov dword ptr [esi], esi // f20f1014c2 | xor eax, eax $sequence_5 = { c644243001 44397c2440 7f10 ff442434 4885c9 7426 c644243c01 } // n = 7, score = 100 // c644243001 | lea ecx, [0xfffce7bd] // 44397c2440 | dec eax // 7f10 | shl esi, 2 // ff442434 | movzx eax, word ptr [ecx + edi*4 + 0x3d750] // 4885c9 | dec eax // 7426 | lea edx, [ecx + 0x3ce40] // c644243c01 | dec eax $sequence_6 = { 483305???????? 488d1516b70200 488bcb 488905???????? ff15???????? 483305???????? } // n = 6, score = 100 // 483305???????? | // 488d1516b70200 | mov word ptr [esp + 0x48], 1 // 488bcb | mov byte ptr [ebp + 0x22], al // 488905???????? | // ff15???????? | // 483305???????? | $sequence_7 = { ffd7 4c8bf0 4885c0 751e 498bcf ff15???????? 488bce } // n = 7, score = 100 // ffd7 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebx + edx*8 + 0x50660] // 4c8bf0 | inc edx // 4885c0 | movzx ecx, byte ptr [eax + edi*8 + 0x3e] // 751e | inc esi // 498bcf | movsx esp, byte ptr [ecx + ebx + 0x4e430] // ff15???????? | // 488bce | inc ecx $sequence_8 = { 418d542416 488d0d3f4b0100 e8???????? 488b0b 66443921 488bcb 744d } // n = 7, score = 100 // 418d542416 | dec eax // 488d0d3f4b0100 | sar ecx, 6 // e8???????? | // 488b0b | dec eax // 66443921 | lea edx, [edx + edx*8] // 488bcb | dec ecx // 744d | mov ecx, dword ptr [eax + ecx*8] $sequence_9 = { 8b4018 25c0010000 83f840 0f84e7010000 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 8b4018 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x51] // 25c0010000 | dec ecx // 83f840 | cmp edi, 0x10 // 0f84e7010000 | dec ecx condition: 7 of them and filesize < 973824 }
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