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Windows Recall Feature Enabled - Registry

Severity
medium
Author
Sajid Nawaz Khan
Source
upstream

Detects the enabling of the Windows Recall feature via registry manipulation. Windows Recall can be enabled by setting the value of "DisableAIDataAnalysis" to "0". Adversaries may enable Windows Recall as part of post-exploitation discovery and collection activities. This rule assumes that Recall is already explicitly disabled on the host, and subsequently enabled by the adversary.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
CollectionT1113 Screen Capture

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details: 'DWORD (0x00000000)'
TargetObject|endswith: '\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis'

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 (0x00000000) corpus 38 (sigma 38)
TargetObjectends_with
  • \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis