Suspicious Process Monitor Driver Creation By Non-Sysinternals Binary (via file_event)

title: Suspicious Process Monitor Driver Creation By Non-Sysinternals Binary (via file_event)
id: e406026f-746b-54ab-8032-bc7e69241000
status: stable
description: This rule detects creation of the Process Monitor driver by processes other than Process Monitor (procmon) itself.
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/
    - Internal Research
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-06-14
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1068
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: file_event
detection:
    selection:
        TargetFilename|contains: '\procmon'
        TargetFilename|endswith: '.sys'
    filter_main_process_explorer:
        Image|endswith:
            - '\procmon.exe'
            - '\procmon64.exe'
            - '\procmon64a.exe'
    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium