Detection rules › Sigma

Sysmon Driver Altitude Change

Severity
high
Author
B.Talebi
Source
upstream

Detects changes in Sysmon driver altitude value. If the Sysmon driver is configured to load at an altitude of another registered service, it will fail to load at boot.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1562.001 Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetObject|endswith: '\Instances\Sysmon Instance\Altitude'
TargetObject|contains: '\Services\'

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.

FieldKindValues
TargetObjectends_with
  • \Instances\Sysmon Instance\Altitude
TargetObjectmatch
  • \Services\ corpus 3 (sigma 3)