According to Trend Micro, this is a backdoor abusing the Dropbox API, used by threat actor Earth Yako.
rule win_transbox_auto { meta: author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com" date = "2026-09-17" version = "1" description = "Detects win.transbox." 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.transbox" 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 = { 57 e8???????? 8bbde0faffff 8d8dd4faffff 33db 53 51 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 57 | push edi // e8???????? | // 8bbde0faffff | mov edi, dword ptr [ebp - 0x520] // 8d8dd4faffff | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x52c] // 33db | xor ebx, ebx // 53 | push ebx // 51 | push ecx $sequence_1 = { 895dec e8???????? 59 59 895dfc 8b7e10 c745ec01000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 895dec | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], ebx // e8???????? | // 59 | pop ecx // 59 | pop ecx // 895dfc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], ebx // 8b7e10 | mov edi, dword ptr [esi + 0x10] // c745ec01000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], 1 $sequence_2 = { 56 e8???????? 59 56 e8???????? 8b85c0fdffff 83c008 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 56 | push esi // e8???????? | // 59 | pop ecx // 56 | push esi // e8???????? | // 8b85c0fdffff | mov eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x240] // 83c008 | add eax, 8 $sequence_3 = { 0f850dfdffff 83bde4fdffff08 8d85d0fdffff 899de0fdffff 0f4385d0fdffff 33c9 668908 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 0f850dfdffff | jne 0xfffffd13 // 83bde4fdffff08 | cmp dword ptr [ebp - 0x21c], 8 // 8d85d0fdffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x230] // 899de0fdffff | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x220], ebx // 0f4385d0fdffff | cmovae eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x230] // 33c9 | xor ecx, ecx // 668908 | mov word ptr [eax], cx $sequence_4 = { 0f84f8020000 e9???????? 56 8d8db8fdffff e8???????? 68???????? c645fc19 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 0f84f8020000 | je 0x2fe // e9???????? | // 56 | push esi // 8d8db8fdffff | lea ecx, [ebp - 0x248] // e8???????? | // 68???????? | // c645fc19 | mov byte ptr [ebp - 4], 0x19 $sequence_5 = { 51 8d45fc 8955fc 50 51 8bcb e8???????? } // n = 7, score = 100 // 51 | push ecx // 8d45fc | lea eax, [ebp - 4] // 8955fc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 4], edx // 50 | push eax // 51 | push ecx // 8bcb | mov ecx, ebx // e8???????? | $sequence_6 = { 85c0 7407 50 ff15???????? 6a00 6a00 ffb5b0fdffff } // n = 7, score = 100 // 85c0 | test eax, eax // 7407 | je 9 // 50 | push eax // ff15???????? | // 6a00 | push 0 // 6a00 | push 0 // ffb5b0fdffff | push dword ptr [ebp - 0x250] $sequence_7 = { 8bfb 8974241c 50 897c241c e8???????? 83c40c 8d842488000000 } // n = 7, score = 100 // 8bfb | mov edi, ebx // 8974241c | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x1c], esi // 50 | push eax // 897c241c | mov dword ptr [esp + 0x1c], edi // e8???????? | // 83c40c | add esp, 0xc // 8d842488000000 | lea eax, [esp + 0x88] $sequence_8 = { 8d4dfa ff7508 8975cc e8???????? 83c404 8d4dfa } // n = 6, score = 100 // 8d4dfa | lea ecx, [ebp - 6] // ff7508 | push dword ptr [ebp + 8] // 8975cc | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x34], esi // e8???????? | // 83c404 | add esp, 4 // 8d4dfa | lea ecx, [ebp - 6] $sequence_9 = { c785f8fbffffc8000000 ff15???????? 8d85f4fbffff c785f4fbffff00040000 50 } // n = 5, score = 100 // c785f8fbffffc8000000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x408], 0xc8 // ff15???????? | // 8d85f4fbffff | lea eax, [ebp - 0x40c] // c785f4fbffff00040000 | mov dword ptr [ebp - 0x40c], 0x400 // 50 | push eax condition: 7 of them and filesize < 288768 }
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