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Event ID 5001 — Product Name Real-time Protection scanning for malware and other potentially unwanted software was disabled.

Provider
Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender
Channel
Operational
Level
Informational
Collection Priority
Recommended (Microsoft-Defender)

Description

Product Name Real-time Protection scanning for malware and other potentially unwanted software was disabled.

Message #

%1 Real-time Protection scanning for malware and other potentially unwanted software was disabled.

Fields #

NameDescription
Product Name UnicodeString—
Product Version UnicodeString—

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender",
    "guid": "11CD958A-C507-4EF3-B3F2-5FD9DFBD2C78",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 5001,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 4,
    "task": 0,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 9223372036854775808,
    "time_created": "2023-11-06T00:11:26.945147+00:00",
    "event_record_id": 150,
    "correlation": {},
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 3332,
      "thread_id": 9444
    },
    "channel": "Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational",
    "computer": "WinDev2310Eval",
    "security": {
      "user_id": "S-1-5-18"
    }
  },
  "event_data": {
    "Product Name": "Microsoft Defender Antivirus",
    "Product Version": "4.18.23090.2008"
  },
  "message": ""
}

Detection Rules #

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Sigma # view in reference

  • Windows Defender Real-time Protection Disabled source high: Detects disabling of Windows Defender Real-time Protection. As this event doesn't contain a lot of information on who initiated this action you might want to reduce it to a "medium" level if this occurs too many times in your environment

References #