Potential Memory Dumping Activity Via LiveKD

Status: test
Severity: medium
Log source: category process_creation, product windows
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects execution of LiveKD based on PE metadata or image name

Known false positives

Administration and debugging activity (must be investigated)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Stealth	No specific technique

Telemetry coverage

Provider	Record / event type
Sysmon	Event ID 1: Process creation

Rule body

title: Potential Memory Dumping Activity Via LiveKD
id: a85f7765-698a-4088-afa0-ecfbf8d01fa4
status: test
description: Detects execution of LiveKD based on PE metadata or image name
references:
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/livekd
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-05-15
tags:
    - attack.stealth
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        - Image|endswith:
              - '\livekd.exe'
              - '\livekd64.exe'
        - OriginalFileName: 'livekd.exe'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Administration and debugging activity (must be investigated)
level: medium

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: `condition`

selection

Stage 1: `selection`

selection:
    - Image|endswith:
          - '\livekd.exe'
          - '\livekd64.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'livekd.exe'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

Field	Kind	Values	Search
`Image`	ends_with	`\livekd.exe` corpus 4 (sigma 4) `\livekd64.exe` corpus 3 (sigma 3)	`field:"Image" kind:ends_with`
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`livekd.exe` corpus 2 (sigma 2)	`field:"OriginalFileName" kind:eq value:"livekd.exe"`

Potential Memory Dumping Activity Via LiveKD

Known false positives

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

Stage 1: selection

Indicators

Stage 0: `condition`

Stage 1: `selection`