SMARTEIO64.SYS
Windows Vista64 Smart IO Device 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
5.13.01.2008-1.00 · its entry
3c95ebf3f1a87f67d2861dbd1c85dc26c118610af0c9fbf4180428e653ac3e50From 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 SMARTEIO64.SYS?
ProductWindows Vista64 Smart IO Device, EVGA Technology Inc.
DescriptionWindows Vista64 Smart IO Device
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 SMARTEIO64.SYS in 1 rule, for every kind of event; none is a process creation rule CmdID evaluates, so none is listed.