Disable Windows Firewall by Registry

Severity: medium
Author: frack113
Source: upstream

Detect set EnableFirewall to 0 to disable the Windows firewall

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Defense Evasion	`T1562.004` Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify System Firewall

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	13	RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

or:
TargetObject|endswith: '\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall'
TargetObject|endswith: '\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall'
Details: 'DWORD (0x00000000)'

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.