MediumSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Enable Local Manifest Installation With Winget

Detects changes to the AppInstaller (winget) policy. Specifically the activation of the local manifest installation, which allows a user to install new packages via custom manifests.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Log source product: windows
Log source category: registry_set

Known benign triggers

Administrators or developers might enable this for testing purposes or to install custom private packages

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
github.com/nasbench/Misc-Research/tree/b9596e8109dcdb16ec353f316678927e507a5b8d/LOLBINs/Winget	Tool	7

Detection rules

Enable Local Manifest Installation With Winget

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules