Process Monitor Driver Creation By Non-Sysinternals Binary

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects creation of the Process Monitor driver by processes other than Process Monitor (procmon) itself.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "File Created or Modified" AND ((FILENAME contains "\procmon" OR OBJECTNAME contains "\procmon") AND (FILENAME endswith ".sys" OR OBJECTNAME endswith ".sys")) AND PROCESSNAME notendswith "\procmon.exe,\procmon64.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.FILENAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)