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Testing Windows Hybrid Hardening (new hardening application).
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<blockquote data-quote="wat0114" data-source="post: 1063013" data-attributes="member: 91306"><p>[USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER]</p><p></p><p>thank you for providing this Windows hardening tool. I've set it up on Windows 11, version: 21H2 with all options "On" in WHHL and Firewall hardening LolBins, MS Office and Recommended H_C rules applied. So far no issues, seems to be working fine.</p><p></p><p>For fun I tried launching two different, digitally signed and confirmed safe executables from my Downloads folder from my Standard account. Both were blocked as expected, although in different ways:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]279417[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]279418[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Application Control and Device Guard. <u>Both</u> of these blocked events were logged in the WDAC-> EXE/DLL logs</p><p></p><p>Because I also use NVT OSArmor, in the process of installing it and setting it up, I created the following Exclusions so nothing will be blocked:</p><p></p><p>[code]</p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\explorer.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: Microsoft Windows] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Medium]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*=C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskkill.exe /f /im WindowsHybridHardening*.exe] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: *]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\FirewallHardening*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\FirewallHardening*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: Open Source Developer, Andrzej Pluta] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\explorer.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: Microsoft Windows] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Medium]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Unknown]</p><p></p><p>[%PROCESS%: C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*_*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*.exe" *C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLightUnins*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Unknown][/code]</p><p></p><p>These rules should work for anyone else who uses OSArmor, because I've incorporated some wildcard usage in the rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wat0114, post: 1063013, member: 91306"] [USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER] thank you for providing this Windows hardening tool. I've set it up on Windows 11, version: 21H2 with all options "On" in WHHL and Firewall hardening LolBins, MS Office and Recommended H_C rules applied. So far no issues, seems to be working fine. For fun I tried launching two different, digitally signed and confirmed safe executables from my Downloads folder from my Standard account. Both were blocked as expected, although in different ways: [ATTACH alt="Application Control Block.png"]279417[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="Device Guard.png"]279418[/ATTACH] Application Control and Device Guard. [U]Both[/U] of these blocked events were logged in the WDAC-> EXE/DLL logs Because I also use NVT OSArmor, in the process of installing it and setting it up, I created the following Exclusions so nothing will be blocked: [code] [%PROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\explorer.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: Microsoft Windows] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Medium] [%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High] [%PROCESS%: C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*=C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High] [%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: High] [%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskkill.exe /f /im WindowsHybridHardening*.exe] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WDAC\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: *] [%PROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\FirewallHardening*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\FirewallHardening*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: Open Source Developer, Andrzej Pluta] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\explorer.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: Microsoft Windows] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Medium] [%PROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLight*.exe"] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\ProgramData\WindowsHybridHardening_Tools\WindowsHybridHardeningLight*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Unknown] [%PROCESS%: C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*_*.exe] [%PROCESSCMDLINE%: "C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp\*.tmp\*.exe" *C:\WINDOWS\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\] [%SIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PARENTPROCESS%: C:\Windows\Hard_ConfiguratorTemp\WHHLightUnins*.exe] [%PARENTSIGNER%: <NULL>] [%PROCESSINTEGRITY%: High] [%PARENTINTEGRITY%: Unknown][/code] These rules should work for anyone else who uses OSArmor, because I've incorporated some wildcard usage in the rules. [/QUOTE]
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