HOSTNT.sys
Hostnt 64-bit driver file version info
Driver on Windows LOLDrivers vulnerable driver 1 Sigma rule names it
A known vulnerable driver
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
1 known sample
4, 0, 16, 0 · its entry
07b6d69bafcfd767f1b63a490a8843c3bb1f8e1bbea56176109b5743c8f7d357From LOLDrivers (Apache 2.0). A driver is known by its hash: a sample under another name is the same driver. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which sample a hash is.
Is it the real HOSTNT.sys?
ProductHostnt, SafeNet, Inc.
DescriptionHostnt 64-bit driver
From the file’s version info, as recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look.
What detects it
Sigma names HOSTNT.sys in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.