Disable Windows Firewall by Registry

Detect set EnableFirewall to 0 to disable the Windows firewall

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 1title: Disable Windows Firewall by Registry
 2id: e78c408a-e2ea-43cd-b5ea-51975cf358c0
 3status: test
 4description: Detect set EnableFirewall to 0 to disable the Windows firewall
 5references:
 6    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/40b77d63808dd4f4eafb83949805636735a1fd15/atomics/T1562.004/T1562.004.md
 7author: frack113
 8date: 2022-08-19
 9modified: 2023-08-17
10tags:
11    - attack.defense-evasion
12    - attack.t1562.004
13logsource:
14    category: registry_set
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    selection:
18        TargetObject|endswith:
19            - \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile\EnableFirewall
20            - \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile\EnableFirewall
21        Details: DWORD (0x00000000)
22    condition: selection
23falsepositives:
24    - Unknown
25level: medium

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