According to Unit 42, Splinter is a post-exploitation red team tool, written in Rust.
rule win_splinter_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.splinter." 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.splinter" 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 = { e8???????? 488d8fa0010000 e8???????? 4889fe 488b9790000000 488d045500000000 4885c0 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 488d8fa0010000 | dec esp // e8???????? | // 4889fe | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0x7d8] // 488b9790000000 | dec eax // 488d045500000000 | lea ecx, [ebp + 0x7f8] // 4885c0 | jmp 0x235 $sequence_1 = { e8???????? e9???????? 48894d68 48894db8 488d45c0 488945e8 488d05d3070000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // e9???????? | // 48894d68 | pop edi // 48894db8 | pop esi // 488d45c0 | inc ecx // 488945e8 | pop esp // 488d05d3070000 | mov byte ptr [ebp + 0x7aa], 1 $sequence_2 = { e8???????? e9???????? 48c745f800000000 c6455f01 488d05e4713b00 4889442420 488d55dc } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // e9???????? | // 48c745f800000000 | dec cx // c6455f01 | movd mm1, ecx // 488d05e4713b00 | inc esp // 4889442420 | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0x28], ebx // 488d55dc | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0xc0], ecx $sequence_3 = { e9???????? 488b4708 488b4f10 4885c9 0f84f1000000 488d14cd00000000 488d1492 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e9???????? | // 488b4708 | jne 0x947 // 488b4f10 | dec eax // 4885c9 | mov dword ptr [ebx + 0x10], edx // 0f84f1000000 | dec ecx // 488d14cd00000000 | mov edx, dword ptr [eax] // 488d1492 | dec eax $sequence_4 = { f048ff08 0f8485000000 e9???????? 49833900 0f8482000000 498b4108 488945f0 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f048ff08 | jne 0xfffffbd9 // 0f8485000000 | // e9???????? | // 49833900 | je 0x8b // 0f8482000000 | dec ecx // 498b4108 | cmp dword ptr [ecx], 0 // 488945f0 | je 0x88 $sequence_5 = { f048ff09 7510 488b45f8 488b90a0000000 e8???????? 48b80200000000000080 488b4df8 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f048ff09 | add esp, 0x20 // 7510 | pop esi // 488b45f8 | nop // 488b90a0000000 | dec eax // e8???????? | // 48b80200000000000080 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 488b4df8 | dec eax $sequence_6 = { f6c301 7418 488d4d40 e8???????? 889d58040000 4883c428 5b } // n = 7, score = 100 // f6c301 | dec eax // 7418 | mov ecx, dword ptr [edi + 0x20] // 488d4d40 | dec esp // e8???????? | // 889d58040000 | mov eax, esi // 4883c428 | dec eax // 5b | sub eax, ecx $sequence_7 = { ff5028 89c7 488b5518 4889d0 48f7d8 7011 730f } // n = 7, score = 100 // ff5028 | dec eax // 89c7 | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0x450], ecx // 488b5518 | dec esp // 4889d0 | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0x458], esi // 48f7d8 | dec eax // 7011 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x10], 0 // 730f | call dword ptr [eax + 0x18] $sequence_8 = { eb4b c685a703000001 488d0d95fa4000 e8???????? eb36 c685a703000001 488d0d68fa4000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // eb4b | mov byte ptr [ecx], al // c685a703000001 | dec eax // 488d0d95fa4000 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0x1a38] // e8???????? | // eb36 | movzx eax, byte ptr [eax + 0x61] // c685a703000001 | jmp 0x230 // 488d0d68fa4000 | mov ecx, 8 $sequence_9 = { 7f24 488d05aaf83600 4889442420 4c89f1 4889da 4989f8 4989d9 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 7f24 | dec eax // 488d05aaf83600 | mov ecx, ebx // 4889442420 | dec eax // 4c89f1 | mov edx, edi // 4889da | jl 0x399 // 4989f8 | dec ebp // 4989d9 | test edi, edi condition: 7 of them and filesize < 20177920 }
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