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[Rule Tuning] Tuning Process Termination followed by Deletion #4173

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@terrancedejesus terrancedejesus commented Oct 18, 2024

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Summary - What I changed

Adding process and file exclusions from this rule as listed below. Potentially more to come pending review from @Samirbous and @w0rk3r.

  • Postillion Office by ACI Worldwide --> Ignoring this process executable deletion in file and process events
  • Chocolatey --> Ignoring executables managed by Chocolatey

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  • Added a label for the type of pr: bug, enhancement, schema, Rule: New, Rule: Deprecation, Rule: Tuning, Hunt: New, or Hunt: Tuning so guidelines can be generated
  • Added the meta:rapid-merge label if planning to merge within 24 hours
  • Secret and sensitive material has been managed correctly
  • Automated testing was updated or added to match the most common scenarios
  • Documentation and comments were added for features that require explanation

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@terrancedejesus terrancedejesus added Rule: Tuning tweaking or tuning an existing rule OS: Windows windows related rules labels Oct 18, 2024
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Rule: Tuning - Guidelines

These guidelines serve as a reminder set of considerations when tuning an existing rule.

Documentation and Context

  • Detailed description of the suggested changes.
  • Provide example JSON data or screenshots.
  • Provide evidence of reducing benign events mistakenly identified as threats (False Positives).
  • Provide evidence of enhancing detection of true threats that were previously missed (False Negatives).
  • Provide evidence of optimizing resource consumption and execution time of detection rules (Performance).
  • Provide evidence of specific environment factors influencing customized rule tuning (Contextual Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements made by modifying sensitivity by changing alert triggering thresholds (Threshold Adjustments).
  • Provide evidence of refining rules to better detect deviations from typical behavior (Behavioral Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements of adjusting rules based on time-based patterns (Temporal Tuning).
  • Provide reasoning of adjusting priority or severity levels of alerts (Severity Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improving quality integrity of our data used by detection rules (Data Quality).
  • Ensure the tuning includes necessary updates to the release documentation and versioning.

Rule Metadata Checks

  • updated_date matches the date of tuning PR merged.
  • min_stack_version should support the widest stack versions.
  • name and description should be descriptive and not include typos.
  • query should be inclusive, not overly exclusive. Review to ensure the original intent of the rule is maintained.

Testing and Validation

  • Validate that the tuned rule's performance is satisfactory and does not negatively impact the stack.
  • Ensure that the tuned rule has a low false positive rate.

] by process.executable
[file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "deletion" and file.extension : ("exe", "scr", "com") and
not process.executable :
[file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "deletion" and file.extension in ("exe", "scr", "com") and
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[file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "deletion" and file.extension in ("exe", "scr", "com") and
[file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "deletion" and file.extension in~ ("exe", "scr", "com") and

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