Wdigest Enable UseLogonCredential

Severity: high
Author: Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
Source: upstream

Detects potential malicious modification of the property value of UseLogonCredential from HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest to enable clear-text credentials

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1112` Modify Registry
Defense Evasion	`T1112` Modify Registry

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	13	RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
TargetObject|endswith: 'WDigest\UseLogonCredential'

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.