Disable or Modify Windows Defender

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This detection watches the commandline logs for known commands that are used to disable the Defender AV. This is based on research performed by @olafhartong on a large sample of malware for varying purposes. Note that this detection is imperfect and is only meant to serve as basis for building a more resilient detection rule. Make the detection more resilient, currently the order of parameters matters. You don't want that for a production rule. See blogpost (https://medium.com/falconforce/falc

Attribute Value
Type Analytic Rule
Solution FalconFriday
ID 20d52a04-b5d8-402d-88e2-7929d12cbdcd
Severity Medium
Status Available
Kind Scheduled
Tactics DefenseEvasion
Techniques T1562.001
Required Connectors MicrosoftThreatProtection
Source View on GitHub

Tables Used

This content item queries data from the following tables:

Table Transformations Ingestion API Lake-Only
DeviceProcessEvents ?

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