Potential Evasion via Filter Manager

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The Filter Manager Control Program (fltMC.exe) binary may be abused by adversaries to unload a filter driver and evade defenses.

Rule indices:

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

Rule version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

event.code:1 and process.name:fltMC.exe

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: File and Directory Permissions Modification
- ID: T1222
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1222/