IMPLANT_3_v1


Description

X-Agent/CHOPSTICK Implant by APT28

Query · yara

strings:
      $STR1 = ">process isn't exist<" ascii wide
      $STR2 = "shell\\open\\command=\"System Volume Information\\USBGuard.exe\" install" ascii wide
      $STR3 = "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0" ascii wide
      $STR4 = "webhp?rel=psy&hl=7&ai=" ascii wide
      $STR5 = {0f b6 14 31 88 55 ?? 33 d2 8b c1 f7 75 ?? 8b 45 ?? 41 0f b6 14
         02 8a 45 ?? 03 fa}
   condition:
      any of them
Raw source IMPLANT_3_v1 · YARA
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rule IMPLANT_3_v1 {
   meta:
      description = "X-Agent/CHOPSTICK Implant by APT28"
      author = "US CERT"
      reference = "https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/02/10/Enhanced-Analysis-GRIZZLY-STEPPE"
      date = "2017-02-10"
      score = 85
      id = "d539bb31-18b2-5cf5-b994-daecd5f8c771"
   strings:
      $STR1 = ">process isn't exist<" ascii wide
      $STR2 = "shell\\open\\command=\"System Volume Information\\USBGuard.exe\" install" ascii wide
      $STR3 = "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0" ascii wide
      $STR4 = "webhp?rel=psy&hl=7&ai=" ascii wide
      $STR5 = {0f b6 14 31 88 55 ?? 33 d2 8b c1 f7 75 ?? 8b 45 ?? 41 0f b6 14
         02 8a 45 ?? 03 fa}
   condition:
      any of them
}

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