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Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Crash - WER

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

This rule detects a suspicious crash of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion, T1562.001 Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Windows-Error-Reporting1001

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Data|contains: MsMpEng.exe
Data|contains: mpengine.dll
Provider_Name: 'Windows Error Reporting'

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
Datamatch
  • MsMpEng.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • mpengine.dll corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Provider_Nameeq
  • Windows Error Reporting