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 (14 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

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 1 rule

Panther 1 rule