Detection rules › Sigma

Registry Disable System Restore

Severity
high
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects the modification of the registry to disable a system restore on the computer

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ImpactT1490 Inhibit System Recovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
TargetObject|endswith: DisableConfig
TargetObject|endswith: DisableSR
or:
TargetObject|contains: '\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore'
TargetObject|contains: '\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore'
Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'

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
Detailseq
  • DWORD (0x00000001) corpus 37 (sigma 37)
TargetObjectends_with
  • DisableConfig
  • DisableSR
TargetObjectmatch
  • \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
  • \Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore