hwdetectng.sys
HWDetectNG file version info
Driver on Windows LOLDrivers vulnerable driver 1 Sigma rule names it
A known vulnerable driver
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
3 known samples
2.8 built by: WinDDK · its entry
2f8b68de1e541093f2d4525a0d02f36d361cd69ee8b1db18e6dd064af3856f4f2.8 built by: WinDDK · its entry
43136de6b77ef85bc661d401723f38624e93c4408d758bc9f27987f2b4511fee2.8 built by: WinDDK · its entry
d45600f3015a54fa2c9baa7897edbd821aeea2532e6aadb8065415ed0a23d0c2From 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 hwdetectng.sys?
Producthwdetectng.sys, iNFERRE
DescriptionHWDetectNG
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 hwdetectng.sys in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.