Actor(s): Anunak, TA505
TinyMet is a meterpreter stager.
rule win_tinymet_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-05-04" version = "1" description = "Detects win.tinymet." 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.tinymet" 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 = { 33c9 6a5f 56 668908 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 33c9 | xor ecx, ecx // 6a5f | push 0x5f // 56 | push esi // 668908 | mov word ptr [eax], cx $sequence_1 = { 2bf0 75e7 a1???????? 5f 5e } // n = 5, score = 100 // 2bf0 | sub esi, eax // 75e7 | jne 0xffffffe9 // a1???????? | // 5f | pop edi // 5e | pop esi $sequence_2 = { 75e4 8d45e8 68???????? 50 e8???????? 8d45f0 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 75e4 | jne 0xffffffe6 // 8d45e8 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x18] // 68???????? | // 50 | push eax // e8???????? | // 8d45f0 | lea eax, [ebp - 0x10] $sequence_3 = { 68???????? e9???????? 8d45ec 6a10 50 56 } // n = 6, score = 100 // 68???????? | // e9???????? | // 8d45ec | lea eax, [ebp - 0x14] // 6a10 | push 0x10 // 50 | push eax // 56 | push esi $sequence_4 = { e8???????? 83c410 b80033a084 385d10 be00022084 } // n = 5, score = 100 // e8???????? | // 83c410 | add esp, 0x10 // b80033a084 | mov eax, 0x84a03300 // 385d10 | cmp byte ptr [ebp + 0x10], bl // be00022084 | mov esi, 0x84200200 $sequence_5 = { 68???????? ff15???????? 8bf8 85ff 0f84c0000000 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 68???????? | // ff15???????? | // 8bf8 | mov edi, eax // 85ff | test edi, edi // 0f84c0000000 | je 0xc6 $sequence_6 = { 6a04 6800100000 8d7801 8d0c3f 51 } // n = 5, score = 100 // 6a04 | push 4 // 6800100000 | push 0x1000 // 8d7801 | lea edi, [eax + 1] // 8d0c3f | lea ecx, [edi + edi] // 51 | push ecx $sequence_7 = { 50 6800100000 8d043b 50 } // n = 4, score = 100 // 50 | push eax // 6800100000 | push 0x1000 // 8d043b | lea eax, [ebx + edi] // 50 | push eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 57344 }
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