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

These 2 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (6 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

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 (15 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

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
pusheris_not_null
1

Exclusions (2 distinct)

These values appear most often in top-level exclusions.

FieldKindValueRules excluding
repository.allow_forkingis_null
1
repository.privateis_not_null
1

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 1 rule

Panther 1 rule