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Dev-0270 Registry IOC - September 2022

Description

'The query below identifies modification of registry by Dev-0270 actor to disable security feature as well as to add ransom notes'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.3
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
6h
Query period
6h
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

(union isfuzzy=true
(SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4688
| where (CommandLine has_all  ('reg', 'add', 'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\', '/v','/t', 'REG_DWORD', '/d', '/f') and CommandLine has_any('DisableRealtimeMonitoring', 'UseTPMKey', 'UseTPMKeyPIN', 'UseAdvancedStartup', 'EnableBDEWithNoTPM', 'RecoveryKeyMessageSource'))
  or CommandLine has_all ('reg', 'add', 'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\', '/v','/t', 'REG_DWORD', '/d', '/f', 'RecoveryKeyMessage', 'Your drives are Encrypted!', '@')
| project TimeGenerated, Computer, Account, AccountDomain, ProcessName, ProcessNameFullPath = NewProcessName, EventID, Activity, CommandLine, EventSourceName, Type
),
(DeviceProcessEvents 
| where (InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_all(@'"reg"', 'add', @'"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\', '/v','/t', 'REG_DWORD', '/d', '/f') 
   and InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any('DisableRealtimeMonitoring', 'UseTPMKey', 'UseTPMKeyPIN', 'UseAdvancedStartup', 'EnableBDEWithNoTPM', 'RecoveryKeyMessageSource') ) 
   or InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_all('"reg"', 'add', @'"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\', '/v','/t', 'REG_DWORD', '/d', '/f', 'RecoveryKeyMessage', 'Your drives are Encrypted!', '@')
| extend Account = strcat(InitiatingProcessAccountDomain, @'\', InitiatingProcessAccountName), Computer = DeviceName
 )
 )
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(Account, @'\')[1]), AccountNTDomain = tostring(split(Account, @'\')[0])

Declared entities

AccountHost

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
2566e99f-ad0f-472a-b9ac-d3899c9283e6
Additional source files 3Solutions/Dev 0270 Detection and Hunting/Analytic Rules/Dev-0270RegistryIOCSep2022.yamlsource ↗Detections/MultipleDataSources/Dev-0270RegistryIOCSep2022.yamlmigration-note ↗Solutions/Dev 0270 Detection and Hunting/Data/Solution_DEV0270.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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