Process Monitor Driver Creation By Non-Sysinternals Binary

 1title: Process Monitor Driver Creation By Non-Sysinternals Binary
 2id: a05baa88-e922-4001-bc4d-8738135f27de
 3status: test
 4description: Detects creation of the Process Monitor driver by processes other than Process Monitor (procmon) itself.
 5references:
 6    - Internal Research
 7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2023/05/05
 9tags:
10    - attack.persistence
11    - attack.privilege_escalation
12    - attack.t1068
13logsource:
14    product: windows
15    category: file_event
16detection:
17    selection:
18        TargetFilename|contains: '\procmon'
19        TargetFilename|endswith: '.sys'
20    filter_main_process_explorer:
21        Image|endswith:
22            - '\procmon.exe'
23            - '\procmon64.exe'
24    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
25falsepositives:
26    - Some false positives may occur with legitimate renamed process monitor binaries
27level: medium