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Reverse, Reveal, Recover: Windows Defender Quarantine Forensics

Max Groot & Erik Schamper TL;DR Introduction During incident response engagements we often encounter antivirus applications that have rightfully triggered on malicious software that was deployed by threat actors. Most commonly we encounter this for Windows Defender, the antivirus solution that is shipped by default with Microsoft Windows. Windows Defender places malicious files in quarantine … Con

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Reverse, Reveal, Recover: Windows Defender Quarantine Forensics
First reported
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Last reported
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:45 UTC
Record ID
a82b0c2fd08dcdaa2d4dd4a02dd05d9a8b6713ea7c9574e56d890ad4c8a1c1ab

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_6df1fb5096a2991dbd

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Dec 14, 2023 05:13 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:45 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

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