LiveKD Driver Creation
Detects the creation of the LiveKD driver, which is used for live kernel debugging
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- file_event
Known benign triggers
- Legitimate usage of LiveKD for debugging purposes will also trigger this
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
Not mapped to ATT&CK.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 16fe46bb-4f64-46aa-817d-ff7bec4a2352
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.privilege-escalationattack.stealth
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1