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Dev-0530 File Extension Rename

Description

'Dev-0530 actors are known to encrypt the contents of the victims device as well as renaming the file extensions. This query looks for the creation of files with .h0lyenc extension or presence of ransom note.'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.1
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

union isfuzzy=true
    (DeviceFileEvents
    | where ActionType == "FileCreated"
    | where FileName endswith ".h0lyenc" or FolderPath == "C:\\FOR_DECRYPT.html"
    | summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated)
        by
        AccountName = InitiatingProcessAccountName, AccountDomain = InitiatingProcessAccountDomain,
        DeviceName,
        Type,
        InitiatingProcessId,
        FileName,
        FolderPath,
        EventType = ActionType,
        Commandline = InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
        InitiatingProcessFileName,
        InitiatingProcessSHA256,
        FileHashCustomEntity = SHA256,
        AlgorithmCustomEntity = "SHA256"
    | extend HostName = tostring(split(DeviceName, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(DeviceName, '.'))
    | extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(DeviceName, DomainIndex + 1), DeviceName)
    ),
    (imFileEvent
    | where EventType == "FileCreated"
    | where TargetFilePath endswith ".h0lyenc" or TargetFilePath == "C:\\FOR_DECRYPT.html"
    | summarize StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated)
        by
        ActorUsername,
        DvcHostname,
        DvcDomain,
        DvcId,
        Type,
        EventType,
        FileHashCustomEntity = TargetFileSHA256,
        Hash,
        TargetFilePath,
        Commandline = ActingProcessCommandLine,
        AlgorithmCustomEntity = "SHA256"
    | extend AccountName = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[1]), AccountDomain = tostring(split(ActorUsername, @'\')[0])
    | extend HostName = DvcHostname, HostNameDomain = DvcDomain
    | extend DeviceName = strcat(DvcHostname, ".", DvcDomain )
    )

Declared entities

AccountHostFileHash

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Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
d82eb796-d1eb-43c8-a813-325ce3417cef
Additional source files 1Detections/MultipleDataSources/Dev-0530_FileExtRename.yamlsource ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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