Disable UAC Using Registry

 1title: Disable UAC Using Registry
 2id: 48437c39-9e5f-47fb-af95-3d663c3f2919
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects when an attacker tries to disable User Account Control (UAC) by changing its registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA from 1 to 0
 5references:
 6    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1548.002/T1548.002.md#atomic-test-8---disable-uac-using-regexe
 7author: frack113
 8date: 2022/01/05
 9modified: 2023/08/17
10tags:
11    - attack.privilege_escalation
12    - attack.defense_evasion
13    - attack.t1548.002
14logsource:
15    category: registry_set
16    product: windows
17detection:
18    selection:
19        TargetObject|contains: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA
20        Details: DWORD (0x00000000)
21    condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23    - Unknown
24level: medium