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Retrieved: 2026-07-14T23:00:00Z · Confidence: medium

Hunt Hypothesis

This detection identifies potentially malicious or unauthorized code execution patterns defined by the ShadowTech YARA signature within Azure Sentinel workloads. Proactively hunting for these indicators allows the SOC team to uncover stealthy adversary activities that may bypass standard alerting thresholds due to their low severity classification.

YARA Rule

rule ShadowTech
{
	meta:
		author = " Kevin Breen <kevin@techanarchy.net>"
		date = "2014/04"
		ref = "http://malwareconfig.com/stats/ShadowTech"
		maltype = "Remote Access Trojan"
		filetype = "exe"

	strings:
		$a = "ShadowTech" nocase
		$b = "DownloadContainer"
		$c = "MySettings"
		$d = "System.Configuration"
		$newline = "#-@NewLine@-#" wide
		$split = "pSIL" wide
		$key = "ESIL" wide

	condition:
		4 of them
}

Deployment Notes

This YARA rule can be deployed in the following contexts:

This rule contains 7 string patterns in its detection logic.

False Positive Guidance

Here are 5 specific false positive scenarios for the ShadowTech detection rule in an enterprise environment, including suggested filters and exclusions:

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