LoFP LoFP / false positives may be present based on common applications adding new drivers, however, filter as needed.

Techniques

Sample rules

Windows Service Create Kernel Mode Driver

Description

The following analytic identifes a new kernel driver being added to Windows using sc.exe. Adding a Kernel driver is not common day to day and should be investigated to further understand the source.

Detection logic


| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name=sc.exe Processes.process="*kernel*" by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process_name Processes.process_name Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id 
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)` 
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)` 
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)` 
| `windows_service_create_kernel_mode_driver_filter`