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PowerShell Script Execution Policy Enabled

Severity
low
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Thurein Oo
Source
upstream

Detects the enabling of the PowerShell script execution policy. Once enabled, this policy allows scripts to be executed.

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
TargetObject|endswith: '\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\EnableScripts'

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
  • \Policies\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\EnableScripts