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Detects EquationGroup Tool - April Leak

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Retrieved: 2026-06-09T23:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The hypothesis is that the detection of EquationGroup Tool - April Leak indicates potential adversary activity leveraging stolen malware components to execute persistent, stealthy attacks within the network. A SOC team should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate advanced threats that may have already established a foothold in the environment.

YARA Rule

rule EquationGroup_Toolset_Apr17_Shares_Target {
   meta:
      description = "Detects EquationGroup Tool - April Leak"
      author = "Florian Roth"
      reference = "https://steemit.com/shadowbrokers/@theshadowbrokers/lost-in-translation"
      date = "2017-04-15"
      hash1 = "6c57fb33c5e7d2dee415ae6168c9c3e0decca41ffe023ff13056ff37609235cb"
   strings:
      $s1 = "Select * from Win32_Share" fullword ascii
      $s2 = "slocalhost" fullword wide
      $s3 = "\\\\%ls\\root\\cimv2" fullword wide
      $s4 = "\\\\%ls\\%ls" fullword ascii
   condition:
      ( uint16(0) == 0x5a4d and filesize < 200KB and all of them )
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 4 string patterns in its detection logic.

References

False Positive Guidance

Original source: https://github.com/Yara-Rules/rules/blob/main/malware/APT_eqgrp_apr17.yar