Installing a endpoint security system extension with MDM results in application code signing being modified

I am posting here as I am a loss for what to try next.

I want to remotely install an application with an endpoint security system extension using my MDM (MicroMDM). To do this, I am sending an InstallEnterpriseApplication command to my MDM server to install an application containing a system extension with an endpoint security entitlement.

The application installs without error according to install.log. However, when I inspect the app that was installed, its contents have been modified. This breaks codesigning and the application cannot load the endpoint security system extension anymore.

HOWEVER, when I take the exact same installer.pkg and double click it from Finder to manually install it by hand, the resulting application is unmodified and as expected! I know the MDM server isn't modifying the application because when I download the installer from the URL that's in my manifest and hash it, the hash matches the original installer file I had before I uploaded it to my MDM.

Is there an issue with MDMs installing applications with system extensions/endpoint security entitlement?

I know this is not an issue with my codesigning or packaging because everything works fine when I double click the package installer and install it by hand.

Has anyone run into this?

Here is my manifest.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>items</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>assets</key>
        <array>
          <dict>
            <key>kind</key>
            <string>software-package</string>
            <key>md5-size</key>
            <integer>10485760</integer>
            <key>md5s</key>
            <array>
              <string>HASH1</string>
              <string>HASH2</string>
              <string>HASH3</string>
            </array>
            <key>url</key>
            <string>https://mdm-testing.sys/repo/installer.pkg</string>
          </dict>
        </array>
      </dict>
    </array>
  </dict>
</plist>

Does it matter that in the MDM scenario, it's appstored that's installing the package? The install.log I see for manual install (GUI or sudo installer -pkg) vs MDM install looks substantially different. I've attached the two different logs.

Installing a endpoint security system extension with MDM results in application code signing being modified
 
 
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