Suspicious Deployment Of The AppX Package Was Blocked By The Policy (via appxdeployment-server)

title: Suspicious Deployment Of The AppX Package Was Blocked By The Policy (via appxdeployment-server)
id: 20fd4a3b-e548-513f-9f3e-c0c5ce0a58ac
status: stable
description: 'This rule detects an appx package deployment that was blocked by the local computer policy. The following events indicate that an AppX package deployment was blocked by a policy: - Event ID 441: The package deployment operation is blocked by the "Allow deployment operations in special profiles" policy - Event ID 442: Deployments to non-system volumes are blocked by the "Disable deployment of Windows Store apps to non-system volumes" policy." - Event ID 453: Package blocked by a platform policy. - Event ID 454: Package blocked by a platform policy.'
references:
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/appxpkg/troubleshooting
    - https://github.com/nasbench/EVTX-ETW-Resources/blob/7a806a148b3d9d381193d4a80356016e6e8b1ee8/ETWEventsList/CSV/Windows11/22H2/W11_22H2_Pro_20220920_22621.382/Providers/Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeployment-Server.csv
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-04-05
tags:
    - attack.defense-impairment
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1204.002
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: appxdeployment-server
detection:
    selection:
        EventID:
            - 441
            - 442
            - 453
            - 454
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium