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HackTool - NoFilter Execution

Severity
high
Author
Stamatis Chatzimangou (st0pp3r)
Source
upstream

Detects execution of NoFilter, a tool for abusing the Windows Filtering Platform for privilege escalation via hardcoded policy name indicators

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1134 Access Token Manipulation, T1134.001 Access Token Manipulation: Token Impersonation/Theft
Defense EvasionT1134 Access Token Manipulation, T1134.001 Access Token Manipulation: Token Impersonation/Theft

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Auditing5447A Windows Filtering Platform filter has been changed.
Security-Auditing5449A Windows Filtering Platform provider context has been changed.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: 1 of selection_5447

FilterName|contains: RonPolicy

Stage 2: 1 of selection_5449

ProviderContextName|contains: RonPolicy

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
FilterNamematch
  • RonPolicy
ProviderContextNamematch
  • RonPolicy

Neighbors

Often fire together

Rules that target events appearing in the same incident timelines. They pattern-match on adjacent steps of the same TTP, so an alert from one is often paired with alerts from these. Useful for triage context and for assembling chained-detection rules.