HighSigmaHQ B.Talebi

Sysmon Driver Altitude Change

Detects changes in Sysmon driver altitude value. If the Sysmon driver is configured to load at an altitude of another registered service, it will fail to load at boot.

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Detection requirements

Platform: Containers ESXi IaaS Linux macOS Network Devices Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: registry_set

Known benign triggers

Legitimate driver altitude change to hide sysmon

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
posts.specterops.io/shhmon-silencing-sysmon-via-driver-unload-682b5be57650	Security research	Only this detection cites it
youtu.be/zSihR3lTf7g	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Sysmon Driver Altitude Change

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

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Detection rules