YARA rules for Supernova
3 rules from 2 sources detect Supernova. Rules are ranked by YARA-X compatibility, licence (full text first), score and quality. Mostly: APT / threat actor, Malware.
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This rule is looking for specific strings related to SUPERNOVA. SUPERNOVA is a .NET web shell backdoor masquerading as a legitimate SolarWinds web service handler. SUPERNOVA inspects and responds to HTTP requests with the appropriate HTTP query strings, Cookies, and/or HTML form values (e.g. named codes, class, method, and args).
APT / threat actorSignature Base (Florian Roth / Nextron)· FireEye· 2020-12-14SUPERNOVA is a .NET web shell backdoor masquerading as a legitimate SolarWinds web service handler. SUPERNOVA inspects and responds to HTTP requests with the appropriate HTTP query strings, Cookies, and/or HTML form values (e.g. named codes, class, method, and args). This rule is looking for specific strings and attributes related to SUPERNOVA.
APT / threat actorSignature Base (Florian Roth / Nextron)· FireEye· 2020-12-14autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator
MalwareMalpedia signator rules· Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com· 2026-05-04