Detection rules › Sigma

UAC Disabled

Severity
medium
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects when an attacker tries to disable User Account Control (UAC) by setting the registry value "EnableLUA" to 0.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control
Defense EvasionT1548.002 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Bypass User Account Control

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details: 'DWORD (0x00000000)'
TargetObject|contains: '\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA'

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)
TargetObjectmatch
  • \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA