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The Windows Defender Firewall Service Failed To Load Group Policy

Detects activity when The Windows Defender Firewall service failed to load Group Policy

MITRE ATT&CK

defense-evasion

Detection Query

selection:
  EventID: 2009
condition: selection

Author

frack113

Created

2022-02-19

Data Sources

windowsfirewall-as

Platforms

windows

References

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-r2-and-2008/dd364427(v=ws.10)

Tags

attack.defense-evasionattack.t1562.004

Raw Content

title: The Windows Defender Firewall Service Failed To Load Group Policy
id: 7ec15688-fd24-4177-ba43-1a950537ee39
status: test
description: Detects activity when The Windows Defender Firewall service failed to load Group Policy
references:
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-r2-and-2008/dd364427(v=ws.10)
author: frack113
date: 2022-02-19
modified: 2023-01-17
tags:
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.t1562.004
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: firewall-as
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 2009 # The Windows Defender Firewall service failed to load Group Policy
    condition: selection
level: low