Attempt To Tamper the Audit Policy

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the use of auditpol binary to change audit policy configuration to impair the detection capability.

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "/disable" OR COMMANDLINE contains "/clear" OR COMMANDLINE contains "/remove" OR COMMANDLINE contains "/restore") AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "auditpol.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME contains "auditpol")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows