Windows_Ransomware_Maze_20caee5b


Description

Identifies MAZE ransomware

Query · yara

strings:
        $a1 = "Win32_ShadowCopy.id='%s'" wide fullword
        $a2 = "\"%s\" shadowcopy delete" wide fullword
        $a3 = "%spagefile.sys" wide fullword
        $a4 = "%sswapfile.sys" wide fullword
        $a5 = "Global\\%s" wide fullword
        $a6 = "DECRYPT-FILES.txt" wide fullword
        $a7 = "process call create \"cmd /c start %s\"" wide fullword
    condition:
        4 of ($a*)
Raw source Windows_Ransomware_Maze_20caee5b · YARA
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Published by elastic/protections-artifacts ↗, licensed under Elastic License 2.0 ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
rule Windows_Ransomware_Maze_20caee5b : beta {
    meta:
        author = "Elastic Security"
        id = "20caee5b-cf7f-4db7-8c3b-67baf63bfc32"
        fingerprint = "47525839e0800f6edec6ad4580682a336e36f7d13bd9e7214eca0f16941016b8"
        creation_date = "2020-04-18"
        last_modified = "2021-08-23"
        description = "Identifies MAZE ransomware"
        threat_name = "Windows.Ransomware.Maze"
        reference = "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/it-services-giant-cognizant-suffers-maze-ransomware-cyber-attack/"
        severity = 100
        arch_context = "x86, arm64"
        scan_context = "file, memory"
        license = "Elastic License v2"
        os = "windows"
    strings:
        $a1 = "Win32_ShadowCopy.id='%s'" wide fullword
        $a2 = "\"%s\" shadowcopy delete" wide fullword
        $a3 = "%spagefile.sys" wide fullword
        $a4 = "%sswapfile.sys" wide fullword
        $a5 = "Global\\%s" wide fullword
        $a6 = "DECRYPT-FILES.txt" wide fullword
        $a7 = "process call create \"cmd /c start %s\"" wide fullword
    condition:
        4 of ($a*)
}

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