Detection rules › Sigma

Winget Admin Settings Modification

Severity
low
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects changes to the AppInstaller (winget) admin settings. Such as enabling local manifest installations or disabling installer hash checks

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image|endswith: '\winget.exe'
TargetObject|endswith: '\LocalState\admin_settings'
TargetObject|startswith: '\REGISTRY\A\'

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
Imageends_with
  • \winget.exe corpus 5 (sigma 5)
TargetObjectends_with
  • \LocalState\admin_settings
TargetObjectstarts_with
  • \REGISTRY\A\