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
 9modified: 2026-06-29
10tags:
11    - attack.persistence
12    - attack.privilege-escalation
13    - attack.t1068
14logsource:
15    product: windows
16    category: file_event
17detection:
18    selection:
19        TargetFilename|contains: '\procmon'
20        TargetFilename|endswith: '.sys'
21    filter_main_process_explorer:
22        Image|endswith:
23            - '\procmon.exe'
24            - '\procmon64.exe'
25            - '\procmon64a.exe'
26    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
27falsepositives:
28    - Some false positives may occur with legitimate renamed process monitor binaries
29level: medium