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Bangat

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Retrieved: 2026-06-13T11:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The Bangat rule detects potential lateral movement by identifying unusual process creation events that may indicate an adversary attempting to move within the network. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate early-stage compromise attempts that could escalate into more severe threats.

YARA Rule

rule Bangat
{
    meta:
        description = "Bangat"
        author = "Seth Hardy"
        last_modified = "2014-07-10"
        
    condition:
        BangatCode or BangatStrings
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

False Positive Guidance

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