Hypervisor Enforced Code Integrity Disabled

 1title: Hypervisor Enforced Code Integrity Disabled
 2id: 8b7273a4-ba5d-4d8a-b04f-11f2900d043a
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5        Detects changes to the HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity registry key and the "Enabled" value being set to 0 in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Code Integrity feature. This allows an attacker to load unsigned and untrusted code to be run in the kernel
 6references:
 7    - https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/03/01/blacklotus-uefi-bootkit-myth-confirmed/
 8    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/04e487c1828d76df3e834621f4f893ea756d5232/atomics/T1562.001/T1562.001.md#atomic-test-43---disable-hypervisor-enforced-code-integrity-hvci
 9author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Anish Bogati
10date: 2023-03-14
11modified: 2024-07-05
12tags:
13    - attack.defense-evasion
14    - attack.t1562.001
15logsource:
16    category: registry_set
17    product: windows
18detection:
19    selection:
20        TargetObject|endswith:
21            - '\Control\DeviceGuard\HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity'
22            - '\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity\Enabled'
23            - '\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceGuard\HypervisorEnforcedCodeIntegrity'
24        Details: 'DWORD (0x00000000)'
25    condition: selection
26falsepositives:
27    - Unknown
28level: high
29regression_tests_path: regression_data/rules/windows/registry/registry_set/registry_set_deviceguard_hypervisorenforcedcodeintegrity_disabled/info.yml
30simulation:
31    - type: atomic-red-team
32      name: Disable Hypervisor-Enforced Code Integrity (HVCI)
33      technique: T1562.001
34      atomic_guid: 70bd71e6-eba4-4e00-92f7-617911dbe020