title: Wdigest CredGuard Registry Modification id: 1a2d6c47-75b0-45bd-b133-2c0be75349fd status: test description: | Detects potential malicious modification of the property value of IsCredGuardEnabled from HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest to disable Cred Guard on a system. This is usually used with UseLogonCredential to manipulate the caching credentials. references: - https://teamhydra.blog/2020/08/25/bypassing-credential-guard/ author: Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research) date: 2019-08-25 modified: 2021-11-27 tags: - attack.persistence - attack.defense-impairment - attack.t1112 logsource: category: registry_event product: windows detection: selection: TargetObject|endswith: '\IsCredGuardEnabled' condition: selection falsepositives: - Unknown level: high