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Windows Defender Definition Files Removed

Severity
high
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Adversaries may disable security tools to avoid possible detection of their tools and activities by removing Windows Defender Definition Files

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1562.001 Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\MpCmdRun.exe'
OriginalFileName: MpCmdRun.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

CommandLine|contains: ' -All'
CommandLine|contains: ' -RemoveDefinitions'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
CommandLinematch
  • -All
  • -RemoveDefinitions
Imageends_with
  • \MpCmdRun.exe corpus 5 (sigma 5)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • MpCmdRun.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)