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 = "2026-05-04" 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 = "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 = { f048ff08 750d 488b45f8 488d4828 e8???????? 488b45f8 488b4818 } // n = 7, score = 100 // f048ff08 | dec eax // 750d | lea ecx, [eax + 0x20] // 488b45f8 | dec eax // 488d4828 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 8] // e8???????? | // 488b45f8 | dec eax // 488b4818 | mov eax, dword ptr [eax + 0x30] $sequence_1 = { e8???????? 488d8e70030000 e8???????? 90 4883c428 5b 5f } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 488d8e70030000 | dec esp // e8???????? | // 90 | lea eax, [0x4c68f1] // 4883c428 | dec eax // 5b | lea ecx, [0x44f6f0] // 5f | dec eax $sequence_2 = { ff5018 41b907000000 488d8dd0070000 488d95a0030000 4c8d05afbd5100 e8???????? 80bdf007000002 } // n = 7, score = 100 // ff5018 | inc eax // 41b907000000 | test bh, 2 // 488d8dd0070000 | je 0xe6 // 488d95a0030000 | dec ecx // 4c8d05afbd5100 | lea edx, [esi + 0x38] // e8???????? | // 80bdf007000002 | dec eax $sequence_3 = { eb03 4c89ca 89d0 4429c8 0402 0fb6c8 4989d3 } // n = 7, score = 100 // eb03 | xor eax, eax // 4c89ca | dec eax // 89d0 | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x50], eax // 4429c8 | dec eax // 0402 | lea ecx, [esp + 0x30] // 0fb6c8 | dec esp // 4989d3 | lea ecx, [esp + 0x48] $sequence_4 = { f686d101000001 0f8451010000 48ff86a0010000 4c8b8ec0010000 4983f903 0f87b7000000 440fb61a } // n = 7, score = 100 // f686d101000001 | test byte ptr [ebp + 0xe8], 1 // 0f8451010000 | dec ecx // 48ff86a0010000 | mov esi, ebx // 4c8b8ec0010000 | dec eax // 4983f903 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0x20] // 0f87b7000000 | dec esp // 440fb61a | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x28] $sequence_5 = { e8???????? eb54 c6858600000000 488d0de0631100 4c8d0501641100 ba28000000 e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // eb54 | mov ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0xb0] // c6858600000000 | dec eax // 488d0de0631100 | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp + 0xa8] // 4c8d0501641100 | jmp 0x45d // ba28000000 | mov byte ptr [ebp + 0x6f], 1 // e8???????? | $sequence_6 = { e9???????? 050000efff 83f808 b902000000 0f42c8 488d05587e4100 48630c88 } // n = 7, score = 100 // e9???????? | // 050000efff | jne 0x421 // 83f808 | dec eax // b902000000 | mov edx, dword ptr [ebp - 0x38] // 0f42c8 | dec esp // 488d05587e4100 | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x30] // 48630c88 | dec eax $sequence_7 = { b80a000000 4881f9ffc99a3b 776b b809000000 4881f9ffe0f505 775d b808000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // b80a000000 | mov eax, 8 // 4881f9ffc99a3b | inc ecx // 776b | mov esi, edx // b809000000 | dec eax // 4881f9ffe0f505 | lea ecx, [0x40e72f] // 775d | dec esp // b808000000 | lea eax, [0x40e750] $sequence_8 = { e8???????? e9???????? 488d0d4c4f3700 e8???????? e9???????? 488d0d234f3700 e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // e8???????? | // e9???????? | // 488d0d4c4f3700 | test eax, eax // e8???????? | // e9???????? | // 488d0d234f3700 | je 0x2f1 // e8???????? | $sequence_9 = { ba80000000 e8???????? eb69 48895378 488d4378 48898338010000 488d0556243700 } // n = 7, score = 100 // ba80000000 | dec esp // e8???????? | // eb69 | lea eax, [0x291c67] // 48895378 | mov edx, 0x3a // 488d4378 | mov edx, 0x39 // 48898338010000 | jmp 0xe45 // 488d0556243700 | dec eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 20177920 }
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