McAfee ePO - Unable to clean or delete infected file

Status: available
Severity: high
Time window: 1h
Source: github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel

Detects when McAfee failed to clean or delete infected file.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Stealth	`T1070` Indicator Removal
Defense Impairment	`T1685` Disable or Modify Tools

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 1026: Unable to clean infected file
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 1028: Unable to delete infected file
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 1055: Unable to delete infected file
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 1298: File infected: clean, delete, and quarantine all failed
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 1310: Multiple-extension heuristic detection: delete and quarantine failed
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 2002: Unable to clean infected file
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 2004: Unable to delete infected file
McAfee-ePolicy-Orchestrator	Event ID 2009: Unable to move infected file to quarantine

Rule body

id: 9860e89f-72c8-425e-bac9-4a170798d3ea
name: McAfee ePO - Unable to clean or delete infected file
description: |
  'Detects when McAfee failed to clean or delete infected file.'
severity: High
requiredDataConnectors:
  - connectorId: SyslogAma
    datatypes:
      - Syslog
queryFrequency: 1h
queryPeriod: 1h
triggerOperator: gt
triggerThreshold: 0
status: Available
tactics:
  - DefenseEvasion
relevantTechniques:
  - T1562
  - T1070
query: |
  McAfeeEPOEvent
  | where EventId in ('1026', '1028', '1298', '1310', '1055', '2002', '2004', '2009')
  | extend EventMessage = case(EventId == '1026', 'Unable to clean infected file',
                                EventId == '1028', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                                EventId == '1298', 'File infected. Delete failed, quarantine failed',
                                EventId == '1310', 'Multiple extension heuristic detection - delete failed, quarantine failed',
                                EventId == '1055', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                                EventId == '2002', 'Unable to clean infected file',
                                EventId == '2004', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                                'Unable to move infected file to quarantine')
  | project DvcIpAddr, EventId, EventMessage, DstFileName
  | extend IPCustomEntity = DvcIpAddr
entityMappings:
  - entityType: IP
    fieldMappings:
      - identifier: Address
        columnName: IPCustomEntity
version: 1.0.2
kind: Scheduled

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `source`

McAfeeEPOEvent

Stage 2: `where`

| where EventId in ('1026', '1028', '1298', '1310', '1055', '2002', '2004', '2009')

Stage 3: `extend`

| extend EventMessage = case(EventId == '1026', 'Unable to clean infected file',
                              EventId == '1028', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                              EventId == '1298', 'File infected. Delete failed, quarantine failed',
                              EventId == '1310', 'Multiple extension heuristic detection - delete failed, quarantine failed',
                              EventId == '1055', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                              EventId == '2002', 'Unable to clean infected file',
                              EventId == '2004', 'Unable to delete infected file',
                              'Unable to move infected file to quarantine')

EventMessage =

ifEventId == 1026'Unable to clean infected file'

elifEventId == 1028'Unable to delete infected file'

elifEventId == 1298'File infected. Delete failed, quarantine failed'

elifEventId == 1310'Multiple extension heuristic detection - delete failed, quarantine failed'

elifEventId == 1055'Unable to delete infected file'

elifEventId == 2002'Unable to clean infected file'

elifEventId == 2004'Unable to delete infected file'

else'Unable to move infected file to quarantine'

Stage 4: `project`

| project DvcIpAddr, EventId, EventMessage, DstFileName

Stage 5: `extend`

| extend IPCustomEntity = DvcIpAddr

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`EventId`	in	`1026` `1028` `1055` `1298` `1310` `2002` `2004` `2009`	`field:"EventId" kind:in`

Output fields

These fields are emitted when the rule matches.

Field	Source
`DstFileName`	`project`
`DvcIpAddr`	`project`
`EventId`	`project`
`EventMessage`	`project`
`IPCustomEntity`	`extend`