CmdID

CmdID / Files

livekd.exe

livekd file version info

Program on Windows 1 known copy with hashes 8 Sigma rules name it

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Is it the real livekd.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals LiveKd, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
Descriptionlivekd

1 known copy

5.63 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\livekd.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

d705f0c95b37e801afe698df5f56833099f55f6563713e3b318499f579a5d1cf

From the file’s version info and the copies 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. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules that name livekd.exe
highKernel Memory Dump Via LiveKDNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)
mediumPotential Memory Dumping Activity Via LiveKDNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names livekd.exe in 8 rules in all, for every kind of event; these are the process creation rules CmdID evaluates.