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Sysmon64.exe

System activity monitor file version info

Program on Windows 2 known copies with hashes 9 Sigma rules name it

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Is it the real Sysmon64.exe?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\SysinternalsSuite\
C:\WINDOWS\
Signed byMicrosoft Corporation
ProductSysinternals Sysmon, Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
DescriptionSystem activity monitor

2 known copies

12.0 · C:\SysinternalsSuite\Sysmon64.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

55bad23d049a2fd801b8decdc5d960d4e27d7f92541e8b37557b7495ca5561a2

7.02 · C:\WINDOWS\Sysmon64.exe · signed by Microsoft Corporation

c8477524849148ffb52b1b597fc891b4833142dcb9aca7947730f734e241e001

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 Sysmon64.exe
highSuspicious Sysmon as Execution ParentFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tim Shelton (fp werfault)
highUninstall Sysinternals Sysmonfrack113
mediumPotential Binary Impersonating Sysinternals Toolsfrack113, Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)
mediumSysmon Configuration UpdateNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Sigma names Sysmon64.exe in 9 rules in all, for every kind of event; these are the process creation rules CmdID evaluates.