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CommentCrew-threat-apt1

yara LOW Yara-Rules
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Retrieved: 2026-05-17T11:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

CommentCrew-threat-apt1 detects potential adversary behavior involving suspicious comment creation or modification in Azure resources, which may indicate reconnaissance or initial compromise activities. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior to identify early-stage threats and prevent lateral movement within the Azure environment.

YARA Rule

rule KURTON_APT1
{

    meta:
        author = "AlienVault Labs"
        info = "CommentCrew-threat-apt1"
        
    strings:
        $s1 = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE8.0; Windows NT 5.1)" wide ascii
        $s2 = "!(*@)(!@PORT!(*@)(!@URL" wide ascii
        $s3 = "MyTmpFile.Dat" wide ascii
        $s4 = "SvcHost.DLL.log" wide ascii

    condition:
        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.

False Positive Guidance

Original source: https://github.com/Yara-Rules/rules/blob/main/malware/APT_APT1.yar