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Builds a secure ESAE Forest from which to manage other AD Forests. Can also be used to build a standalone secure forest. Includes all DISA STIGs as GPOs for Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2, and more.

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

Overview issues7 vulnerabilities0 malware0 behaviors48 dependencies4 contributors3 versions22

FAQ for ESAE

What is ESAE?

Builds a secure ESAE Forest from which to manage other AD Forests. Can also be used to build a standalone secure forest. Includes all DISA STIGs as GPOs for Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2, and more. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is ESAE malicious or is it safe to use?

The PS Gallery package ESAE was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. No risks were detected, therefore, this version of the package is currently considered as safe to use.

Is ESAE popular?

The PS Gallery package ESAE ranks among the top 10000 projects in this community. It has 3K recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure ESAE once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how ESAE behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a ESAE version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

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Popularity

3.32k

Total Downloads

Contributors

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Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with higher privilege parts of the operating system, often requiring administrative access to accomplish a task. System security settings are the first line of defense against the most common attack vectors. For that reason, attackers often aim to tamper with system security settings. Disabling User Access Controls (UAC) and other security settings enables malicious code to execute without being blocked. While the presence of code that tampers with system security settings does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select applications should consider using functions that interact with system security settings. One example of acceptable use for such functions is allowing specialized applications to install as services that monitor the operating system events.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

5 packages

found in

Top 100

86 packages

found in

Top 1k

726 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.29k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1562.001 - Disable or Modify Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community, it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of being the first to try out a new project lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

2 packages

found in

Top 1k

6 packages

found in

Top 10k

18 packages

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Attackers commonly hide their malicious payloads in layers of packing and code obfuscation. Base-encoding is a common data transformation technique used to convert binary payloads into text. Detected software behaviors indicate that the code has the ability to decode and execute Base-encoded data. While presence of dynamic code execution does not imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. When a software package has behavior traits similar to malicious software, it may become flagged by security solutions. One example of acceptable use for dynamic Base-encoded data execution is transfer of software components over the network.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

15 packages

found in

Top 1k

137 packages

found in

Top 10k

200 packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1027 - Obfuscated Files or Information.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with higher privilege parts of the operating system, often requiring administrative access to accomplish a task. Operating systems include a complete network stack with many services that allow the machine to connect to the internet. Some of these services are used to secure network access. For that reason, attackers often aim to tamper with system network settings. Disabling firewalls and other network security features enable the malicious code to execute without being blocked. While the presence of code that tampers with system network settings does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select applications should consider using functions that interact with system network settings. One example of acceptable use for such functions is allowing specialized applications to use non-standard network ports by updating the firewall allowlist.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

3 packages

found in

Top 100

99 packages

found in

Top 1k

805 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.27k packages

in community

Next steps

12 packages

found in

Top 10k

17 packages

in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

ESAE

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

IMPORTANT: This package had 5 removal incidents in versions published within 2 years prior to the latestLatest version with removal incident detected: about 10 years agoVersion: 0.0.0.6

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

FAQ for ESAE

What is ESAE?

Is ESAE malicious or is it safe to use?

Is ESAE popular?

How do I secure ESAE once it is in my app?

Did you know...

Popularity

Top issues

TH16114Detected presence of software components that can tamper with the system security settings.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

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TH15103Detected presence of files with behaviors commonly used by malicious software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

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TH16103Detected presence of files that dynamically execute Base-encoded data.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

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TH16113Detected presence of software components that can tamper with the system network settings.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Prevents loading profile scripts during execution of some commands.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Prevents creating an interactive prompt for the user during execution.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Hides all signs of execution by using different PowerShell command line flags.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Hides a window during execution of the code.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Tampers with Key Distribution Service (KDS) settings.settings

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

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