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Naikon

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Retrieved: 2026-06-26T23:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The Naikon rule detects potential adversary behavior involving suspicious file execution or persistence mechanisms that may indicate a low-severity threat. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate early-stage threats that could escalate into more severe incidents.

YARA Rule

rule Naikon : Family
{
    meta:
        description = "Naikon"
        author = "Seth Hardy"
        last_modified = "2014-06-25"
        
    condition:
        NaikonCode or NaikonStrings
}

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_Naikon.yar