Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled

Detects changes to the "DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" registry value. Where the it is set to "1" in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation feature.

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 1title: Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled
 2id: 7f2954d2-99c2-4d42-a065-ca36740f187b
 3status: experimental
 4description: |
 5        Detects changes to the "DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" registry value. Where the it is set to "1" in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation feature.
 6references:
 7    - https://twitter.com/standa_t/status/1808868985678803222
 8    - https://github.com/AaLl86/WindowsInternals/blob/070dc4f317726dfb6ffd2b7a7c121a33a8659b5e/Slides/Hypervisor-enforced%20Paging%20Translation%20-%20The%20end%20of%20non%20data-driven%20Kernel%20Exploits%20(Recon2024).pdf
 9author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
10date: 2024-07-05
11tags:
12    - attack.defense-evasion
13    - attack.t1562.001
14logsource:
15    category: registry_set
16    product: windows
17detection:
18    selection:
19        TargetObject|endswith: '\DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation'
20        Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
21    condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23    - Unknown
24level: high

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