Clearing Windows Event Logs with wevtutil

Identifies attempts to clear Windows event logs with the command wevtutil.

id:5b223758-07d6-4100-9e11-238cfdd0fe97
categories:detect
confidence:low
os:windows
created:11/30/2018
updated:11/30/2018

MITRE ATT&CK™ Mapping

tactics:Defense Evasion
techniques:T1070 Indicator Removal on Host

Query

process where subtype.create and
  process_name == "wevtutil.exe" and command_line == "* cl *"

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