LiveKD Driver Creation By Uncommon Process

Severity: high
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects the creation of the LiveKD driver by a process image other than "livekd.exe".

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	11	FileCreate

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

TargetFilename: 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\LiveKdD.SYS'

Stage 2: `not 1 of filter_main_legit_name`

or:
Image|endswith: '\livek64.exe'
Image|endswith: '\livekd.exe'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

Field	Kind	Values
`Image`	ends_with	`\livek64.exe` corpus 2 (sigma 2) `\livekd.exe` corpus 7 (sigma 7)
`TargetFilename`	eq	`C:\Windows\System32\drivers\LiveKdD.SYS` corpus 2 (sigma 2)

Neighbors

Stricter alternatives (narrower than this rule)

The rules below may be useful if you find the current rule is too noisy / lacks specificity.

LiveKD Driver Creation [sigma] (adds 1 filter) (first-stage match only; downstream stages may differ)