Sysmon Blocked Executable

 1title: Sysmon Blocked Executable
 2id: 23b71bc5-953e-4971-be4c-c896cda73fc2
 3status: test
 4description: Triggers on any Sysmon "FileBlockExecutable" event, which indicates a violation of the configured block policy
 5references:
 6    - https://medium.com/@olafhartong/sysmon-14-0-fileblockexecutable-13d7ba3dff3e
 7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2022-08-16
 9modified: 2023-09-16
10tags:
11    - attack.defense-evasion
12logsource:
13    product: windows
14    service: sysmon
15detection:
16    selection:
17        EventID: 27  # this is fine, we want to match any FileBlockExecutable event
18    condition: selection
19falsepositives:
20    - Unlikely
21level: high

References

• Sysmon 14.0 — FileBlockExecutable

  

  The Sysinternals team has released a new version of Sysmon. This brings the version number to 14.0 and raises the schema to 4.82.

  
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