Suspicious Application Allowed Through Exploit Guard

 1title: Suspicious Application Allowed Through Exploit Guard
 2id: 42205c73-75c8-4a63-9db1-e3782e06fda0
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects applications being added to the "allowed applications" list of exploit guard in order to bypass controlled folder settings
 5references:
 6    - https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2017/10/23/windows-defender-exploit-guard-reduce-the-attack-surface-against-next-generation-malware/
 7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2022/08/05
 9modified: 2023/08/17
10tags:
11    - attack.defense_evasion
12    - attack.t1562.001
13logsource:
14    category: registry_set
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    selection_key:
18        TargetObject|contains: 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Exploit Guard\Controlled Folder Access\AllowedApplications'
19    selection_paths:
20        TargetObject|contains:
21            # Add more paths you don't allow in your org
22            - '\Users\Public\'
23            - '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
24            - '\Desktop\'
25            - '\PerfLogs\'
26            - '\Windows\Temp\'
27    condition: all of selection_*
28falsepositives:
29    - Unlikely
30level: high