Actor(s): Turla
Talos describes this as a malware family with very scoped functionality and thus a small code footprint, likely used as a second chance backdoor.
rule win_tiny_turla_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-05-04" version = "1" description = "Detects win.tiny_turla." 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.tiny_turla" 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 = { 4053 4883ec20 488b1a 488d15e0ffffff 488bcb ff15???????? } // n = 6, score = 300 // 4053 | dec eax // 4883ec20 | mov ecx, edi // 488b1a | dec eax // 488d15e0ffffff | inc edx // 488bcb | test eax, eax // ff15???????? | $sequence_1 = { c705????????04000000 488bc8 ff15???????? 85c0 742c 488bcb e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 300 // c705????????04000000 | // 488bc8 | dec eax // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | test edi, edi // 742c | je 0x1f53 // 488bcb | inc ebp // e8???????? | $sequence_2 = { 488bcb ff15???????? 488905???????? 4885c0 744a } // n = 5, score = 300 // 488bcb | inc ebp // ff15???????? | // 488905???????? | // 4885c0 | xor ecx, ecx // 744a | jne 0x4a1 $sequence_3 = { c705????????04000000 488bc8 ff15???????? 85c0 742c 488bcb } // n = 6, score = 300 // c705????????04000000 | // 488bc8 | dec ebp // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | add eax, eax // 742c | inc ebx // 488bcb | mov eax, dword ptr [edi + eax*8 + 8] $sequence_4 = { c705????????01000000 4883c420 5b 48ff25???????? 4883c420 } // n = 5, score = 300 // c705????????01000000 | // 4883c420 | lea ebx, [esp + 0x110] // 5b | dec ecx // 48ff25???????? | // 4883c420 | mov ebx, dword ptr [ebx + 0x30] $sequence_5 = { 488b1a 488d15e0ffffff 488bcb ff15???????? 488905???????? 4885c0 } // n = 6, score = 300 // 488b1a | mov dword ptr [esp], ecx // 488d15e0ffffff | mov edi, dword ptr [esi + 8] // 488bcb | dec esp // ff15???????? | // 488905???????? | // 4885c0 | mov eax, dword ptr [esi] $sequence_6 = { 488b1a 488d15e0ffffff 488bcb ff15???????? 488905???????? } // n = 5, score = 300 // 488b1a | inc esp // 488d15e0ffffff | lea edx, [ebx + 1] // 488bcb | inc ebp // ff15???????? | // 488905???????? | $sequence_7 = { 488d15e0ffffff 488bcb ff15???????? 488905???????? } // n = 4, score = 300 // 488d15e0ffffff | mov dword ptr [ebx + 8], edi // 488bcb | dec eax // ff15???????? | // 488905???????? | $sequence_8 = { ff15???????? 85c0 742c 488bcb e8???????? } // n = 5, score = 300 // ff15???????? | // 85c0 | dec eax // 742c | cmp ecx, eax // 488bcb | je 0x5f9 // e8???????? | $sequence_9 = { 488b1a 488d15e0ffffff 488bcb ff15???????? } // n = 4, score = 300 // 488b1a | xor ecx, ecx // 488d15e0ffffff | inc ebp // 488bcb | test eax, eax // ff15???????? | condition: 7 of them and filesize < 217088 }
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