Windows Defender: Antimalware platform failed performing an action to protect you from potentially unwanted software () · win.system.eventID = 1118

Description

Windows Defender: Antimalware platform failed performing an action to protect you from potentially unwanted software ($(win.eventdata.processName))

Query · wazuh

field win.system.eventID="^1118$"

Fires when

Wazuh evaluates a chain top-down. Every rule above this one must match on the same event before this rule is tested at all.

  1. 60000 Group of windows rules. anchor level 0
    decoded_as=windows_eventchannel AND field win.system.providerName="\.+"
  2. 60005 Group of Windows rules for the system channel. anchor level 0
    field win.system.channel="^Microsoft-Windows-Windows Defender/Operational$"
  3. 62101 Windows Defender warning event anchor level 0
    field win.system.severityValue="^WARNING$"
  4. 62125 Windows Defender: Antimalware platform failed performing an action to protect you from potentially unwanted software () · win.system.eventID = 1118 refinement level 8 this rule
    field win.system.eventID="^1118$"

Rule dependencies

Depends on

Raw source Windows Defender: Antimalware platform failed performing an action to protect you from potentially unwanted software () · win.system.eventID = 1118 · Wazuh XML
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<rule id="62125" level="8">
    <if_sid>62101</if_sid>
    <field name="win.system.eventID">^1118$</field>
    <description>Windows Defender: Antimalware platform failed performing an action to protect you from potentially unwanted software ($(win.eventdata.processName))</description>
    <options>no_full_log</options>
    <group>pci_dss_5.1,pci_dss_5.2,pci_dss_10.6.1,pci_dss_11.4,gpg13_4.2,gdpr_IV_35.7.d,hipaa_164.312.b,nist_800_53_SI.3,nist_800_53_AU.6,nist_800_53_SI.4,tsc_A1.2,tsc_CC7.2,tsc_CC7.3,tsc_CC6.1,tsc_CC6.8,</group>
  </rule>

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