Potential Uninstall Entry Concealment

Identifies execution of the Hide From Uninstall List utility or a registry change that marks an installed application as a system component, causing Windows to omit it from Programs and Features. Adversaries may use…

Description

Detection logic

Its licence does not clear it for publishing here

Sunturai publishes a detection's own text where the licence it arrived under has been reviewed and permits it, and Elastic License 2.0 has not. The query as its source wrote it, its canonical form and the hash that pins this revision are in the workspace record.

Detection requirements

Platform: ESXi Linux macOS Office Suite Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
Log source category: event_index

Known benign triggers

Application installers, software-management systems, and administrators may legitimately set SystemComponent during deployment, updates, packaging, or shared-device and kiosk hardening. Confirm the matched branch, binary or uninstall target, initiating identity, host, parent process, and change window against the change record before adding a narrow exception.

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
cofense.com/blog/the-evolution-of-remote-access-tool-abuse	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/arpsystemcomponent	Product documentation	Only this detection cites it
www.huntress.com/blog/daisy-chaining-rogue-rmm-tools	Security research	2
www.huntress.com/blog/phishing-bitb-rmm-attacks	Security research	Only this detection cites it
www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/29/phishing-abuses-rmm-tools-persistent-access	Threat report	3
www.safebreach.com/blog/ragnarlocker-ransomware-lokilocker-threat-coverage/	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it
www.sordum.org/11081/hide-from-uninstall-list-v1-1/	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it
www.sygnia.co/blog/threat-actor-spotlight-ragnarlocker-ransomware/	Security research	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Potential Uninstall Entry Concealment

Description

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules