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 = "2026-01-05" 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 = "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 = { f048ff08 7510 488b4df0 4881c120020000 e8???????? 90 4883c420 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f048ff08 | dec eax // 7510 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp - 8] // 488b4df0 | // 4881c120020000 | // e8???????? | // 90 | jne 0x12 // 4883c420 | dec eax $sequence_1 = { f048ff08 0f855dfeffff 4883c178 e8???????? e9???????? 488b8558010000 48894530 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f048ff08 | dec eax // 0f855dfeffff | mov dword ptr [ebp + 0x90], 0 // 4883c178 | nop dword ptr [eax] // e8???????? | // e9???????? | // 488b8558010000 | dec eax // 48894530 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x90] $sequence_2 = { 741b 4c39c0 0f847c000000 420fb61c02 80c3d0 49ffc0 80fb0a } // n = 7, score = 100 // 741b | lea edx, [0x40fdd] // 4c39c0 | dec eax // 0f847c000000 | mov ecx, eax // 420fb61c02 | dec eax // 80c3d0 | mov ebx, eax // 49ffc0 | dec eax // 80fb0a | mov eax, ebx $sequence_3 = { e9???????? 4c8d0547ba2d00 4889c2 e8???????? 4c8d0538ba2d00 4889c1 e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // e9???????? | // 4c8d0547ba2d00 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x90], eax // 4889c2 | dec eax // e8???????? | // 4c8d0538ba2d00 | lea eax, [0x426c32] // 4889c1 | dec eax // e8???????? | $sequence_4 = { e9???????? 8b05???????? 65488b0c2558000000 488b34c1 488d8e38020000 488d15c6f10000 e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // e9???????? | // 8b05???????? | // 65488b0c2558000000 | push ebp // 488b34c1 | push esi // 488d8e38020000 | dec eax // 488d15c6f10000 | sub esp, 0x38 // e8???????? | $sequence_5 = { f30f7f06 488b9de0030000 4885db 0f8411010000 488db550010000 488d95b0000000 41b898000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f30f7f06 | movdqu xmmword ptr [ecx + 0x30], xmm3 // 488b9de0030000 | movdqu xmmword ptr [ecx + 0x20], xmm2 // 4885db | movdqu xmmword ptr [ecx + 0x10], xmm1 // 0f8411010000 | movdqu xmmword ptr [ecx], xmm0 // 488db550010000 | movdqu xmm1, xmmword ptr [esi + 0x6c0] // 488d95b0000000 | movdqu xmm2, xmmword ptr [esi + 0x6d0] // 41b898000000 | movdqu xmm3, xmmword ptr [esi + 0x6e0] $sequence_6 = { e8???????? 84c0 488bbd08040000 743b 8b05???????? 65488b0c2558000000 488b04c1 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 84c0 | movzx ebx, byte ptr [esp + 0x25] // 488bbd08040000 | dec esp // 743b | mov ecx, dword ptr [esp + 0x28] // 8b05???????? | // 65488b0c2558000000 | je 0xfffffc56 // 488b04c1 | jmp 0x58 $sequence_7 = { e8???????? eb17 4c8955e8 4c894df0 4c8d05cc034500 4889c1 e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // eb17 | dec eax // 4c8955e8 | mov ecx, ebx // 4c894df0 | dec eax // 4c8d05cc034500 | mov edx, edi // 4889c1 | ud2 // e8???????? | $sequence_8 = { f30f7f8910020000 488b4c2448 4c89ea e8???????? 4889f1 4821c1 f30f6f040f } // n = 7, score = 100 // f30f7f8910020000 | mov dword ptr [esi + 0x70], eax // 488b4c2448 | inc esp // 4c89ea | mov byte ptr [esi + 0x78], ch // e8???????? | // 4889f1 | dec eax // 4821c1 | mov eax, esi // f30f6f040f | dec eax $sequence_9 = { e8???????? eb2e c685c700000001 4c8d050b894c00 4c89f9 e8???????? eb16 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // eb2e | dec eax // c685c700000001 | mov ecx, edx // 4c8d050b894c00 | jmp 0x1f5 // 4c89f9 | jmp 0x207 // e8???????? | // eb16 | dec eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 20177920 }
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