Debugger Evasion T1622

Tactics: Stealth, Discovery

Adversaries may employ various means to detect and avoid debuggers. Debuggers are typically used by defenders to trace and/or analyze the execution of potential malware payloads.

Events covered

1 catalog event is tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEventTitle
SysmonEvent ID 1Process creation

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 2 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (6 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
Description1eq 1Process Hacker
Hashes1contains 1imphash=04de0ad9c37eb7bd52043d2ecac958df, imphash=3695333c60dedecdcaff1590409aa462, md5=68f9b52895f4d34e74112f3129b3b00d
Image1contains 1, ends_with 1\processhacker.exe, \processhacker_
OriginalFileName1eq 1process hacker, processhacker.exe
Product1eq 1Process Hacker
pusher1is_not_null 1

Top indicator values (14 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
Descriptioneq
Process Hacker
1
Hashescontains
imphash=04de0ad9c37eb7bd52043d2ecac958df
1
Hashescontains
imphash=3695333c60dedecdcaff1590409aa462
1
Hashescontains
md5=68f9b52895f4d34e74112f3129b3b00d
1
Hashescontains
md5=b365af317ae730a67c936f21432b9c71
1
Hashescontains
sha1=a0bdfac3ce1880b32ff9b696458327ce352e3b1d
1
Hashescontains
sha1=c5e2018bf7c0f314fed4fd7fe7e69fa2e648359e
1
Hashescontains
sha256=bd2c2cf0631d881ed382817afcce2b093f4e412ffb170a719e2762f250abfea4
1
Hashescontains
sha256=d4a0fe56316a2c45b9ba9ac1005363309a3edc7acf9e4df64d326a0ff273e80f
1
Imagecontains
\processhacker_
1
Imageends_with
\processhacker.exe
1
OriginalFileNameeq
process hacker
1
OriginalFileNameeq
processhacker.exe
1
Producteq
Process Hacker
1

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 1 rule

Panther 1 rule