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Retrieved: 2026-06-17T23:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The rule detects potential reconnaissance activity by adversaries leveraging the malwared.ru domain, which is associated with malicious infrastructure. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify early-stage threats and prevent lateral movement or data exfiltration.

YARA Rule

rule KelihosHlux
{
  meta:
	author = "@malpush"
	maltype = "KelihosHlux"
	description = "http://malwared.ru"
	date = "22/02/2014"
  strings:
    $KelihosHlux_HexString = {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}
   
  condition:
    $KelihosHlux_HexString
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 1 string patterns in its detection logic.

False Positive Guidance

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