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RUSSIANPANDA_Obfuscation_Powershell_Special_Chars

Detects PowerShell special character obfuscation

Suspicious / huntingRussianPandaNo licence (all rights reserved)Compiles with YARA-X (with warnings)
Author
RussianPanda
Date
2024-01-12
Modified
2024-02-02
Score / Quality
75 / 81

What this rule detects

Detects PowerShell special character obfuscation

It defines 4 patterns (0 text, 4 hex, 0 regex).

YARA-X says: warning[text_as_hex]: hex pattern could be written as text literal

Summary generated from the rule's metadata and condition.

Rule source

Rule text not reproduced

This rule comes from RussianPanda, which does not grant a licence to redistribute its rules (No licence (all rights reserved)). We show its metadata only. Read the original rule upstream:

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References

Sample hashes

Hashes of samples the author lists in the rule's meta (look them up in your threat-intelligence platform).

  • d77efad78ef3afc5426432597ba129141952719846bc5ccd058249bb23d8a905

Licence & attribution

Author: RussianPanda

Source repository: RussianPanda @ acb504b67b

Licence: No licence (all rights reserved) (repository licence)

Original rule

Mirrored via YARA Forge 20260927, which prefixes rule names with the source and adds normalised meta fields.

Rule id: dd2d41d4-3431-5252-adf1-d537f3b8db7e

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