← Back to SOC feed Coverage →

Identify Athena HTTP

yara LOW Yara-Rules
community
This rule was pulled from an open-source repository and enriched with AI. Validate in a test environment before deploying to production.
View original rule at Yara-Rules →
Retrieved: 2026-06-12T23:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The detection rule identifies potential unauthorized HTTP traffic to an Athena service, which could indicate data exfiltration or command and control activity. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to detect early signs of lateral movement or data compromise in cloud environments.

YARA Rule

rule AthenaHTTP
{
    
    meta:
        author = "Brian Wallace @botnet_hunter"
        author_email = "[email protected]"
        date = "2014-08-09"
        description = "Identify Athena HTTP"
    
    strings:
        $s1 = "%s(%s)"
        $s2 = "type:on_exec"
        $s3 = "uid:%s"
        $s4 = "priv:%s"
        $s5 = "arch:x%s"
        $s6 = "gend:%s"
        $s7 = "cores:%i"
        $s8 = "ver:%s"
        $s9 = "net:%s"
    
    condition:
        all of them
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 9 string patterns in its detection logic.

False Positive Guidance

Original source: https://github.com/Yara-Rules/rules/blob/main/malware/MALW_Athena.yar