MT.1171 - Sample Submission should send safe samples automatically.

Contributed by Boris Drogja with Olugbenro OgundipeAll contributors →

Overview

Verify that sample submission consent is configured to send safe samples automatically.

Restricted sample submission reduces threat intelligence and protection quality.

Remediation action:

1. Open Microsoft Endpoint Manager > Endpoint Security > Antivirus
2. Edit the relevant Microsoft Defender Antivirus policy
3. Set Submit Samples Consent to send safe samples automatically

If your antivirus settings are split across several policies, this setting only needs to be set in one of them, as long as that policy is assigned to every device that needs it. No other assigned policy should set a different value: Intune does not merge this setting, so a device that receives both values may end up with either one, or none.

Related links

• Policy merge and conflicts for Antivirus policy settings
• Configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus
• Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Test Metadata

Field	Value
Test ID	MT.1171
Severity	Medium
Suite	Maester
Product	Defender
Related products	Intune
Feature	Endpoint antivirus
Area	Devices and endpoints
Resource type	Policy
User impact	Low
Implementation cost	Low
MITRE ATT&CK	T1204.002 Malicious File
PowerShell test	Test-MtMdeSubmitSamplesConsent
Services	Graph

Source

• Test: tests/maester/defender/Test.MT.1171.ps1
• Documentation: tests/maester/defender/Test.MT.1171.md