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Anthem Hack Deep Panda - Trojan.Kakfum sqlsrv32.dll

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Retrieved: 2026-05-21T11:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

The hypothesis is that the presence of the sqlsrv32.dll file associated with the Trojan.Kakfum malware indicates potential lateral movement or persistence by the Deep Panda group within the network. SOC teams should proactively hunt for this behavior in Azure Sentinel to identify and mitigate early-stage compromise by advanced persistent threats.

YARA Rule

rule Anthem_DeepPanda_Trojan_Kakfum
{

    meta:
        description = "Anthem Hack Deep Panda - Trojan.Kakfum sqlsrv32.dll"
        author = "Florian Roth"
        date = "2015/02/08"
        hash1 = "ab58b6aa7dcc25d8f6e4b70a24e0ccede0d5f6129df02a9e61293c1d7d7640a2"
        hash2 = "c6c3bb72896f8f0b9a5351614fd94e889864cf924b40a318c79560bbbcfa372f"

    strings:
        $s0 = "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\svchost.exe -k sqlserver" fullword ascii
        $s1 = "%s\\sqlsrv32.dll" fullword ascii
        $s2 = "%s\\sqlsrv64.dll" fullword ascii
        $s3 = "%s\\%d.tmp" fullword ascii
        $s4 = "ServiceMaix" fullword ascii
        $s15 = "sqlserver" fullword ascii

    condition:
        all of them
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 6 string patterns in its detection logic.

False Positive Guidance

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