Detection rules › Sigma

WFP Filter Added via Registry

Severity
medium
Author
Frack113
Source
upstream

Detects registry modifications that add Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) filters, which may be used to block security tools and EDR agents from reporting events.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1569.002 System Services: Service Execution
Defense EvasionT1562 Impair Defenses

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetObject|contains: '\BFE\Parameters\Policy\Persistent\Filter\'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_svchost

Image: ['C:\Windows\SysWOW64\svchost.exe', 'C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe']

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
Imageeq
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\svchost.exe corpus 3 (sigma 3)
  • C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe corpus 4 (sigma 4)
TargetObjectmatch
  • \BFE\Parameters\Policy\Persistent\Filter\