Disable or Modify System Firewall: Cloud Firewall T1686.001

Adversaries may disable or modify a firewall within a cloud environment to bypass controls that limit access to cloud resources.

Events covered

2 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (3 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
CommandLine2contains 2firewall, enable, enable=yes, group=\"file and printer sharing\", group=\"network discovery\"
OriginalFileName2eq 2netsh.exe
process_name2eq 2netsh.exe

Top indicator values (8 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
CommandLinecontains
firewall
213
CommandLinecontains
enable
13
CommandLinecontains
enable=yes
12
CommandLinecontains
group=\"file and printer sharing\"
1
CommandLinecontains
group=\"network discovery\"
1
CommandLinecontains
yes
12
OriginalFileNameeq
netsh.exe
223
process_nameeq
netsh.exe
218

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Splunk 2 rules