Kernel Memory Dump Via LiveKD

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

Detects execution of LiveKD with the "-m" flag to potentially dump the kernel memory

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `all of selection_img`

or:
Image|endswith: '\livekd.exe'
Image|endswith: '\livekd64.exe'
OriginalFileName: livekd.exe

Stage 2: `all of selection_cli`

CommandLine|contains: ' -m'

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
`CommandLine`	match	`-m` corpus 3 (sigma 3)
`Image`	ends_with	`\livekd.exe` corpus 7 (sigma 7) `\livekd64.exe` corpus 5 (sigma 5)
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`livekd.exe` corpus 2 (sigma 2)