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Potao

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Retrieved: 2026-06-01T11:00:01Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The Potao YARA rule detects potential malicious artifacts linked to the name ‘Potao’, which may indicate targeted attacks by specific threat actors. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate early-stage threats associated with this campaign.

YARA Rule

rule Potao
{

    meta:
        Author      = "Anton Cherepanov"
        Date        = "2015/07/29"
        Description = "Operation Potao"
        Reference   = "http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Operation-Potao-Express_final_v2.pdf"
        Source = "https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/"
        Contact = "[email protected]"
        License = "BSD 2-Clause"
    
    condition:
        PotaoDecoy or PotaoDll or PotaoUSB or PotaoSecondStage
}

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/APT_OpPotao.yar