Windows Filtering Platform: Persistent state under the hood

Published

2016-03-03 23:00

Collected

2026-07-08 12:40

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id: 4547
title: "Windows Filtering Platform: Persistent state under the hood"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/windows-filtering-platform-persistent-state-under-the-hood.html"
published_at: "2016-03-03T23:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "reverse-engineering", "kernel", "firewall", "registry", "wfp"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4547"
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---

# Windows Filtering Platform: Persistent state under the hood

## Summary

How the Windows Filtering Platform persists its firewall state: decoding the GUID-named registry blobs of the BFE service and the interplay between user-mode and kernel-mode filter engines.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2016-03-03T23:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/windows-filtering-platform-persistent-state-under-the-hood.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4547