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
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
d82eb796-d1eb-43c8-a813-325ce3417cef
Additional source files 1
Detections/MultipleDataSources/Dev-0530_FileExtRename.yamlsource ↗GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC