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: test
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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