LiveKD Driver Creation By Uncommon Process
Detects the creation of the LiveKD driver by a process image other than "livekd.exe".
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- file_event
Known benign triggers
- Administrators might rename LiveKD before its usage which could trigger this. Add additional names you use to the filter
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
- 059c5af9-5131-4d8d-92b2-de4ad6146712
- 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