#100DaysofYARA 2024 – Day 25 – BlackSuit Ransomware Note

A quarter of the way through #100DaysofYARA! Today’s rule is essentially the same as yesterday, but tuned to catch the ransom note that BlackSuit drops post-encryption.

rule MAL_BlackSuit_ransomnote {
	meta:
		description = "Matches strings found in open-source reporting of BlackSuit ransom notes."
		last_modified = "2024-01-25"
        author = "@petermstewart"
        DaysofYara = "25/100"
        ref = "https://twitter.com/siri_urz/status/1653692714750279681"
        ref = "https://twitter.com/Unit42_Intel/status/1653760405792014336"
        ref = "https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/e/investigating-blacksuit-ransomwares-similarities-to-royal.html"

	strings:
		$a = "weg7sdx54bevnvulapqu6bpzwztryeflq3s23tegbmnhkbpqz637f2yd.onion"
    	$b1 = "Good whatever time of day it is!"
    	$b2 = "Your safety service did a really poor job of protecting your files against our professionals."
    	$b3 = "Extortioner named  BlackSuit has attacked your system."
    	$b4 = "As a result all your essential files were encrypted and saved at a secure server for further use and publishing on the Web into the public realm."
    	$b5 = "Now we have all your files like: financial reports, intellectual property, accounting, law actionsand complaints, personal files and so on and so forth."
    	$b6 = "We are able to solve this problem in one touch."
    	$b7 = "We (BlackSuit) are ready to give you an opportunity to get all the things back if you agree to makea deal with us."
    	$b8 = "You have a chance to get rid of all possible financial, legal, insurance and many others risks and problems for a quite small compensation."
    	$b9 = "You can have a safety review of your systems."
    	$b10 = "All your files will be decrypted, your data will be reset, your systems will stay in safe."
    	$b11 = "Contact us through TOR browser using the link:"

	condition:
		filesize < 5KB and
		$a and
		8 of ($b*)
}

Find the rest of my 100DaysofYARA posts here, and the rules themselves on my Github repository.

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