MITRE ATT&CK CoA - T1562.001 - Disable or Modify Tools

This Playbook is part of the MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action Pack.

Supported versions

Supported Cortex XSOAR versions: 6.5.0 and later.

This playbook Remediates the Disable or Modify Tools technique using intelligence-driven Courses of Action (COA) defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team.

***Disclaimer: This playbook does not simulate an attack using the specified technique, but follows the steps to remediation as defined by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team’s Actionable Threat Objects and Mitigations (ATOMs). Techniques Handled:

• T1562.001: Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Kill Chain phases:

• Defense Evasion

MITRE ATT&CK Description: Adversaries may disable security tools to avoid possible detection of their tools and activities. This can take the form of killing security software or event logging processes, deleting Registry keys so that tools do not start at run time, or other methods to interfere with security tools scanning or reporting information.

Possible playbook uses:

• The playbook can be used independently to handle and remediate the specific technique.
• The playbook can be used as a part of the “Courses of Action - Defense Evasion” playbook to remediate techniques based on the kill chain phase.
• The playbook can be used as a part of the “MITRE ATT&CK - Courses of Action” playbook, which can be triggered by different sources and accepts the technique MITRE ATT&CK ID as an input.

Dependencies

This playbook uses the following sub-playbooks, integrations, and scripts.

Sub-playbooks

This playbook does not use any sub-playbooks.

Integrations

This playbook does not use any integrations.

Scripts

• IsIntegrationAvailable
• Set
• SetGridField

Commands

This playbook does not use any commands.

Playbook Inputs

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There are no inputs for this playbook.

Playbook Outputs

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Path	Description	Type
Handled.Techniques	The techniques handled in this playbook	unknown

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