Sysmon

Sysmon Overview:

Critical tool for hunting on Windows machines and should be installed. Documentation that includes each event type detail provided below.

Alert Types:

ID
Tag
Event

1

ProcessCreate

Process Create

2

FileCreateTime

File creation time

3

NetworkConnect

Network connection detected

4

n/a

Sysmon service state change (cannot be filtered)

5

ProcessTerminate

Process terminated

6

DriverLoad

Driver Loaded

7

ImageLoad

Image loaded

8

CreateRemoteThread

CreateRemoteThread detected

9

RawAccessRead

RawAccessRead detected

10

ProcessAccess

Process accessed

11

FileCreate

File created

12

RegistryEvent

Registry object added or deleted

13

RegistryEvent

Registry value set

14

RegistryEvent

Registry object renamed

15

FileCreateStreamHash

File stream created

16

n/a

Sysmon configuration change (cannot be filtered)

17

PipeEvent

Named pipe created

18

PipeEvent

Named pipe connected

19

WmiEvent

WMI filter

20

WmiEvent

WMI consumer

21

WmiEvent

WMI consumer filter

22

DNSQuery

DNS query

23

FileDelete

File Delete archived

24

ClipboardChange

New content in the clipboard

25

ProcessTampering

Process image change

26

FileDeleteDetected

File Delete logged

27

FileBlockExecutable

File Block Executable

28

FileBlockShredding

File Block Shredding

29

FileExecutableDetected

File Executable Detected

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