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Disable Privacy Settings Experience in Registry

Detects registry modifications that disable Privacy Settings Experience

MITRE ATT&CK

defense-evasion

Detection Query

selection:
  TargetObject|endswith: \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience
  Details: DWORD (0x00000000)
condition: selection

Author

frack113

Created

2022-10-02

Data Sources

windowsRegistry Set Events

Platforms

windows

References

https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/9e5b12c4912c07562aec7500447b11fa3e17e254/atomics/T1562.001/T1562.001.md

Tags

attack.defense-evasionattack.t1562.001

Raw Content

title: Disable Privacy Settings Experience in Registry
id: 0372e1f9-0fd2-40f7-be1b-a7b2b848fa7b
status: test
description: Detects registry modifications that disable Privacy Settings Experience
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/9e5b12c4912c07562aec7500447b11fa3e17e254/atomics/T1562.001/T1562.001.md
author: frack113
date: 2022-10-02
modified: 2023-08-17
tags:
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.t1562.001
logsource:
    category: registry_set
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        TargetObject|endswith: '\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OOBE\DisablePrivacyExperience'
        Details: 'DWORD (0x00000000)'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate admin script
level: medium