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@w0rk3r w0rk3r commented Aug 13, 2025

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Resolves #4968

Summary

Revert the changes made to the exceptions in #4555. A fix for the Python tooling bug that caused this will be handled in a separate PR.

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Rule: Tuning - Guidelines

These guidelines serve as a reminder set of considerations when tuning an existing rule.

Documentation and Context

  • Detailed description of the suggested changes.
  • Provide example JSON data or screenshots.
  • Provide evidence of reducing benign events mistakenly identified as threats (False Positives).
  • Provide evidence of enhancing detection of true threats that were previously missed (False Negatives).
  • Provide evidence of optimizing resource consumption and execution time of detection rules (Performance).
  • Provide evidence of specific environment factors influencing customized rule tuning (Contextual Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements made by modifying sensitivity by changing alert triggering thresholds (Threshold Adjustments).
  • Provide evidence of refining rules to better detect deviations from typical behavior (Behavioral Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improvements of adjusting rules based on time-based patterns (Temporal Tuning).
  • Provide reasoning of adjusting priority or severity levels of alerts (Severity Tuning).
  • Provide evidence of improving quality integrity of our data used by detection rules (Data Quality).
  • Ensure the tuning includes necessary updates to the release documentation and versioning.

Rule Metadata Checks

  • updated_date matches the date of tuning PR merged.
  • min_stack_version should support the widest stack versions.
  • name and description should be descriptive and not include typos.
  • query should be inclusive, not overly exclusive. Review to ensure the original intent of the rule is maintained.

Testing and Validation

  • Validate that the tuned rule's performance is satisfactory and does not negatively impact the stack.
  • Ensure that the tuned rule has a low false positive rate.

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tradebot-elastic commented Aug 13, 2025

⛔️ Test failed

Results
  • ❌ Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creation (kuery)
    • coverage_issue: no_rta
    • stack_validation_failed: no_rta

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eric-forte-elastic commented Aug 14, 2025

Python tooling fix PR for reference: #4978

We may want to merge the tooling fix first, otherwise this PR could be reverted on next release.

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tradebot-elastic commented Aug 15, 2025

⛔️ Test failed

Results
  • ❌ Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creation (kuery)
    • coverage_issue: no_rta
    • stack_validation_failed: no_rta

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tradebot-elastic commented Aug 18, 2025

⛔️ Test failed

Results
  • ❌ Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creation (kuery)
    • coverage_issue: no_rta
    • stack_validation_failed: no_rta

@w0rk3r w0rk3r merged commit 5f7b821 into main Aug 18, 2025
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@w0rk3r w0rk3r deleted the rt_4 branch August 18, 2025 13:29
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[Rule Tuning] Suspicious PrintSpooler Service Executable File Creation - alerts about a Windows dll

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