Suspicious Windows Defender Folder Exclusion Added Via Reg.EXE

sigmaDRL-1.1from SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects the usage of "reg.exe" to add Defender folder exclusions. Qbot has been seen using this technique to add exclusions for folders within AppData and ProgramData.

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ATT&CK techniques

T1562.001

rule sourcelocked

title: ████████████████████████
id: ████████-████-████-████-████████████
status: ██████████
description: ██████████████████████████████████████████
             ████████████████████████████████████████
author: ████████
tags:
  - attack.████
  - attack.████
logsource:
  product: ████████
  category: ████████████
detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith: '████████████████'
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '████████████████████████'
      - '████████████████████████'
      - '██████████████████'
  condition: selection
level: ████████
falsepositives:
  - ████████████████████

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