Sysmon

Recommended Sysmon EventIDs worth monitoring:

  • Event ID 1: Process Creation

  • Event ID 3: Network Connection

  • Event ID 7: Image Loaded

  • Event ID 8: CreateRemoteThread

  • Event ID 11: File Created

  • Event ID 12 / 13 / 14: Registry Event

  • Event ID 15: FileCreateStreamHash

  • Event ID 22: DNS Event

Filtering syntax:

  • Filter by Event ID: */System/EventID=<ID>

  • Filter by XML Attribute/Name: */EventData/Data[@Name="<XML Attribute/Name>"]

  • Filter by Event Data: */EventData/Data=<Data>