This is a stealer used by LockBit 2.0.
rule win_stealbit_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.stealbit." 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.stealbit" 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 = { 6a73 668985eafcffff 58 6a75 668985ecfcffff 58 668985eefcffff } // n = 7, score = 300 // 6a73 | push 0x73 // 668985eafcffff | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x316], ax // 58 | pop eax // 6a75 | push 0x75 // 668985ecfcffff | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x314], ax // 58 | pop eax // 668985eefcffff | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x312], ax $sequence_1 = { 6a2e 668945ee 668975e4 66894de8 668975ea 58 } // n = 6, score = 300 // 6a2e | push 0x2e // 668945ee | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x12], ax // 668975e4 | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x1c], si // 66894de8 | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x18], cx // 668975ea | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x16], si // 58 | pop eax $sequence_2 = { 6683fe20 740a 6683fe2e 7506 8bd1 eb02 } // n = 6, score = 300 // 6683fe20 | cmp si, 0x20 // 740a | je 0xc // 6683fe2e | cmp si, 0x2e // 7506 | jne 8 // 8bd1 | mov edx, ecx // eb02 | jmp 4 $sequence_3 = { 6a70 668985f0fdffff 668995eefdffff 5a 6a6c 58 } // n = 6, score = 300 // 6a70 | push 0x70 // 668985f0fdffff | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x210], ax // 668995eefdffff | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x212], dx // 5a | pop edx // 6a6c | push 0x6c // 58 | pop eax $sequence_4 = { 8bc6 5e c3 6a25 e8???????? } // n = 5, score = 300 // 8bc6 | mov eax, esi // 5e | pop esi // c3 | ret // 6a25 | push 0x25 // e8???????? | $sequence_5 = { 668945a8 58 6a6f 668945aa 58 6a73 59 } // n = 7, score = 300 // 668945a8 | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x58], ax // 58 | pop eax // 6a6f | push 0x6f // 668945aa | mov word ptr [ebp - 0x56], ax // 58 | pop eax // 6a73 | push 0x73 // 59 | pop ecx $sequence_6 = { 8901 8bc1 c3 e8???????? 8901 c3 8bd1 } // n = 7, score = 300 // 8901 | mov dword ptr [ecx], eax // 8bc1 | mov eax, ecx // c3 | ret // e8???????? | // 8901 | mov dword ptr [ecx], eax // c3 | ret // 8bd1 | mov edx, ecx $sequence_7 = { 83e0f0 660f6f08 660f74c8 660fd7d1 d3ea d3e2 0fbcd2 } // n = 7, score = 300 // 83e0f0 | and eax, 0xfffffff0 // 660f6f08 | movdqa xmm1, xmmword ptr [eax] // 660f74c8 | pcmpeqb xmm1, xmm0 // 660fd7d1 | pmovmskb edx, xmm1 // d3ea | shr edx, cl // d3e2 | shl edx, cl // 0fbcd2 | bsf edx, edx $sequence_8 = { 8945f8 e8???????? 03c0 8bce 8bd0 e8???????? 6a0c } // n = 7, score = 300 // 8945f8 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 8], eax // e8???????? | // 03c0 | add eax, eax // 8bce | mov ecx, esi // 8bd0 | mov edx, eax // e8???????? | // 6a0c | push 0xc $sequence_9 = { 0f850e020000 2bcf 69c9ff000000 8d8114faffff 2b450c 03f0 8d8114faffff } // n = 7, score = 300 // 0f850e020000 | jne 0x214 // 2bcf | sub ecx, edi // 69c9ff000000 | imul ecx, ecx, 0xff // 8d8114faffff | lea eax, [ecx - 0x5ec] // 2b450c | sub eax, dword ptr [ebp + 0xc] // 03f0 | add esi, eax // 8d8114faffff | lea eax, [ecx - 0x5ec] condition: 7 of them and filesize < 131072 }
rule win_stealbit_w0 { meta: description = "Detects Stealbit used by Lockbit 2.0 Ransomware Gang" author = "Frank Boldewin (@r3c0nst)" reference = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fboldewin/YARA-rules/master/Lockbit2.Stealbit.yar" date = "2021-08-12" hash1 = "3407f26b3d69f1dfce76782fee1256274cf92f744c65aa1ff2d3eaaaf61b0b1d" hash2 = "bd14872dd9fdead89fc074fdc5832caea4ceac02983ec41f814278130b3f943e" malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.stealbit" malpedia_rule_date = "20210818" malpedia_hash = "" malpedia_version = "20210818" malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0" malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE" strings: $C2Decryption = {33 C9 8B C1 83 E0 0F 8A 80 ?? ?? ?? ?? 30 81 ?? ?? ?? ?? 41 83 F9 7C 72 E9 E8} condition: uint16(0) == 0x5A4D and filesize < 100KB and $C2Decryption }
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