Wdigest CredGuard Registry Modification
Detects potential malicious modification of the property value of IsCredGuardEnabled from HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest to disable Cred Guard on a system. This is usually used with UseLogonCredential to manipulate the caching credentials.
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1title: Wdigest CredGuard Registry Modification
2id: 1a2d6c47-75b0-45bd-b133-2c0be75349fd
3status: test
4description: |
5 Detects potential malicious modification of the property value of IsCredGuardEnabled from
6 HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest to disable Cred Guard on a system.
7 This is usually used with UseLogonCredential to manipulate the caching credentials.
8references:
9 - https://teamhydra.blog/2020/08/25/bypassing-credential-guard/
10author: Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
11date: 2019/08/25
12modified: 2021/11/27
13tags:
14 - attack.defense_evasion
15 - attack.t1112
16logsource:
17 category: registry_event
18 product: windows
19detection:
20 selection:
21 TargetObject|endswith: '\IsCredGuardEnabled'
22 condition: selection
23falsepositives:
24 - Unknown
25level: high
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