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🔔 THIS MODULE IS DEPRECATED. 💗 Please use the new Harden System Security app, available on Microsoft Store, that has 100% of the features of the module, plus so much more. It's open source as well. ➡️ https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/wiki/Harden-System-Security 💞 Microsoft Store link: ➡️ https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P7GGFL7DX57 💜 GitHub post regarding the transition from module to app: https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/discussions/778 💚 Harden System Security app's First release: https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/releases/tag/HardenSystemSecurity-v.1.0.1.0 ❤️‍🔥 Additional Distinguished Features of the Harden System Security Application: ✅ Minimal Memory Footprint: The application is engineered for lightweight efficiency, ensuring negligible system resource consumption. Architecturally, no application pages maintain navigation cache, strictly adhering to the MVVM pattern. ✅ Native Performance: Compiled ahead-of-time for instantaneous launch responsiveness. This approach shifts computational workload to compile-time rather than runtime (user's system), delivering an exceptionally responsive user experience. ✅ Static Code Implementation: The application avoids dynamic code generation, enhancing security posture and reducing vulnerability exposure. This design ensures compatibility with advanced OS-level exploit mitigations including Control Flow Guard (CFG). ✅ Methodical Architecture: The application employs systematic, modular design principles, facilitating seamless extensibility and maintainability. Future security measures can be integrated while preserving established patterns and design philosophies. ✅ Modern User Interface: Utilizing cutting-edge WinUI 3 components, the application delivers a contemporary, responsive, accessible, and intuitive interface. Full touch input compatibility is comprehensively supported. ✅ Internationalization Support: The application accommodates localization, enabling users to operate in their preferred language. Currently available in English, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Malayalam, Polish, Spanish, and Arabic. ✅ Open Source Transparency: The application maintains open source availability, permitting code inspection, community contributions, and ensuring complete functional transparency. ✅ Native API Preference and Low-Level Programming: The application prioritizes native APIs and low-level programming methodologies, optimizing performance and security. This approach enables exploitation of latest Windows capabilities without third-party component dependencies. ✅ High-Performance Language Utilization: The application is primarily developed in C#, strategically incorporating C++ and Rust components for specialized tasks. Performance optimization and security enhancement constitute the primary objectives of this design strategy. ✅ Complete Reversibility: Every modification applied to your system through the new Harden System Security application can be undone with precision. The application provides surgical accuracy in applying, verifying, and removing security measures. Individual security measures can be targeted for verification, application, or removal without affecting other security measures. ✅ For the Microsoft Defender category where the module used to add all git executables to the ASLR exclusions list because some of them were incompatible and wouldn't allow Git or GitHub desktop to work when the mitigation was on, this no longer happens like this. The new app is capable of identifying which files are incompatible with the Mandatory ASLR exploit mitigation and only adds those to the exclusion list. ➡️➡️ https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P7GGFL7DX57 ⬅️⬅️ ➡️➡️ https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/wiki/Harden-System-Security ⬅️⬅️
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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:

Popularity

263.15k
Total Downloads
4
Contributors
0
Declared Dependencies
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Dependents

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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
87 packages
found in
Top 1k
724 packages
found in
Top 10k
1272 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

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing services URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverages the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

7 packages
found in
Top 100
389 packages
found in
Top 1k
1464 packages
found in
Top 10k
2513 packages
in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.
If the software should not include these network references, 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 an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

Problem

Software components contain executable code that performs actions implemented during its development. These actions are called behaviors. In the analysis report, behaviors are presented as human-readable descriptions that best match the underlying code intent. While most behaviors are benign, some are commonly abused by malicious software with the intent to cause harm. When a software package shares behavior traits with malicious software, it may become flagged by security solutions. Any detection from security solutions can cause friction for the end-users during software deployment. While the behavior is likely intended by the developer, there is a small chance this detection is true positive, and an early indication of a software supply chain attack.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

13 packages
found in
Top 100
179 packages
found in
Top 1k
969 packages
found in
Top 10k
1540 packages
in community

Next steps

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

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures verify the origin and the integrity of the object they apply to. The integrity validation relies on the cryptographic strength of the encryption and the hash verification algorithm. If either of the two is considered weak by current standards, there is a chance the signed object could be maliciously modified, without triggering the integrity failure check.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

85 packages
found in
Top 100
354 packages
found in
Top 1k
1054 packages
found in
Top 10k
1674 packages
in community

Next steps

Create signatures with strong ECC key-length of at least 224 bits, or RSA key-length of at least 2048 bits, and use SHA256 as the hashing algorithm. While encryption key-length upgrade does require you to obtain a new certificate, the hashing algorithm can freely be selected during signing.
With Microsoft SignTool, you can specify the hashing algorithm using the /fd SHA256 parameter.

Problem

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures are made using digital certificates, which can either be purchased from certificate authorities or be self-issued. When a certificate is purchased from a certificate authority, the subject that requests it goes through an identity validation process. Depending on the certificate type, those checks can be basic or extended. Confirming the subject identity is a multi-step process, and the requesting subject can be mapped to its legal entity name only through extended validation of submitted documents. Extended identity validation typically costs more, and it takes longer for a certificate to be issued when this process is correctly followed.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

86 packages
found in
Top 100
259 packages
found in
Top 1k
991 packages
found in
Top 10k
1561 packages
in community

Next steps

Consider the benefits of acquiring extended validation certificates. Operating systems tend to be more trusting of software packages signed in this way. Certain security warnings and prompts might also be automatically suppressed. This reduces the number of support tickets for organizations that opt to use extended validation certificates.

Top behaviors

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Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
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8 packages
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Top 1k
54 packages
found in
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85 packages
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Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
1 packages
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Top 100
32 packages
found in
Top 1k
280 packages
found in
Top 10k
422 packages
in community

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
Behavior commonly used by malicious software (Important)
0 packages
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24 packages
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Top 1k
183 packages
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309 packages
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Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
1 packages
found in
Top 100
37 packages
found in
Top 1k
251 packages
found in
Top 10k
440 packages
in community

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
12 packages
found in
Top 100
172 packages
found in
Top 1k
803 packages
found in
Top 10k
1281 packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for Harden-Windows-Security-Module

What is Harden-Windows-Security-Module?

🔔 THIS MODULE IS DEPRECATED. 💗 Please use the new Harden System Security app, available on Microsoft Store, that has 100% of the features of the module, plus so much more. It's open source as well. ➡️ https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/wiki/Harden-System-Security 💞 Microsoft Store link: ➡️ https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P7GGFL7DX57 💜 GitHub post regarding the transition from module to app: https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/discussions/778 💚 Harden System Security app's First release: https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/releases/tag/HardenSystemSecurity-v.1.0.1.0 ❤️‍🔥 Additional Distinguished Features of the Harden System Security Application: ✅ Minimal Memory Footprint: The application is engineered for lightweight efficiency, ensuring negligible system resource consumption. Architecturally, no application pages maintain navigation cache, strictly adhering to the MVVM pattern. ✅ Native Performance: Compiled ahead-of-time for instantaneous launch responsiveness. This approach shifts computational workload to compile-time rather than runtime (user's system), delivering an exceptionally responsive user experience. ✅ Static Code Implementation: The application avoids dynamic code generation, enhancing security posture and reducing vulnerability exposure. This design ensures compatibility with advanced OS-level exploit mitigations including Control Flow Guard (CFG). ✅ Methodical Architecture: The application employs systematic, modular design principles, facilitating seamless extensibility and maintainability. Future security measures can be integrated while preserving established patterns and design philosophies. ✅ Modern User Interface: Utilizing cutting-edge WinUI 3 components, the application delivers a contemporary, responsive, accessible, and intuitive interface. Full touch input compatibility is comprehensively supported. ✅ Internationalization Support: The application accommodates localization, enabling users to operate in their preferred language. Currently available in English, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Malayalam, Polish, Spanish, and Arabic. ✅ Open Source Transparency: The application maintains open source availability, permitting code inspection, community contributions, and ensuring complete functional transparency. ✅ Native API Preference and Low-Level Programming: The application prioritizes native APIs and low-level programming methodologies, optimizing performance and security. This approach enables exploitation of latest Windows capabilities without third-party component dependencies. ✅ High-Performance Language Utilization: The application is primarily developed in C#, strategically incorporating C++ and Rust components for specialized tasks. Performance optimization and security enhancement constitute the primary objectives of this design strategy. ✅ Complete Reversibility: Every modification applied to your system through the new Harden System Security application can be undone with precision. The application provides surgical accuracy in applying, verifying, and removing security measures. Individual security measures can be targeted for verification, application, or removal without affecting other security measures. ✅ For the Microsoft Defender category where the module used to add all git executables to the ASLR exclusions list because some of them were incompatible and wouldn't allow Git or GitHub desktop to work when the mitigation was on, this no longer happens like this. The new app is capable of identifying which files are incompatible with the Mandatory ASLR exploit mitigation and only adds those to the exclusion list. ➡️➡️ https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P7GGFL7DX57 ⬅️⬅️ ➡️➡️ https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/wiki/Harden-System-Security ⬅️⬅️. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is Harden-Windows-Security-Module malicious or is it safe to use?

The PS Gallery package Harden-Windows-Security-Module 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 Harden-Windows-Security-Module popular?

The PS Gallery package Harden-Windows-Security-Module ranks among the top 1000 projects in this community. It has 263K 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 Harden-Windows-Security-Module once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how Harden-Windows-Security-Module behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a Harden-Windows-Security-Module 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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