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Sysmon

Channel: Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Host type
Windows (workstation, member server, domain controller)
Cost class
Free tool
Techniques
424
Rules listed
600 of 3,579
Events
31

Licensing

License or service
Sysinternals Sysmon
What is free
Download and use
What costs
Nothing
Notes
Free Sysinternals tool; Linux port MIT-licensed
As read on
2026-11-01

A vendor statement as read on the date shown; the cost class is the durable part.

Standards and guidance naming this source

RequirementRelationBasis
OMB M-26-14: Identity usedSupports an activityour analysis: Sysmon 1 carries the user for every process
OMB M-26-14: Anomalous activitySupports an activityour analysis: unusual process lineage and network behavior
ASD ACSC / CISA et al.: Priority enterprise log sourcespriority_sourcequoted: administrative workstations; user computers (our analysis: Sysmon is the usual way to capture process detail there)

Techniques

Rules

600 of 3,579 rules are listed here: the dataset names at most this many per entry. The counts by vendor are complete.

Sigma 217
Elastic 349
Microsoft Sentinel 34

Events

Minimum (14)

  • 1Process creation
  • 10ProcessAccess
  • 11FileCreate
  • 12RegistryEvent (Object create and delete)
  • 13RegistryEvent (Value Set)
  • 14RegistryEvent (Key and Value Rename)
  • 15FileCreateStreamHash
  • 17PipeEvent (Pipe Created)
  • 22DNSEvent (DNS query)
  • 23FileDelete (File Delete archived)
  • 3Network connection
  • 6Driver loaded
  • 7Image loaded
  • 8CreateRemoteThread

Recommended (6)

  • 18PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)
  • 2A process changed a file creation time
  • 25ProcessTampering (Process image change)
  • 4Sysmon service state changed
  • 5Process terminated
  • 9RawAccessRead

Listed (11)

  • 16ServiceConfigurationChange
  • 19WmiEvent (WmiEventFilter activity detected)
  • 20WmiEvent (WmiEventConsumer activity detected)
  • 21WmiEvent (WmiEventConsumerToFilter activity detected)
  • 24ClipboardChange (New content in the clipboard)
  • 255Error
  • 26FileDeleteDetected (File Delete logged)
  • 27FileBlockExecutable
  • 28FileBlockShredding
  • 29FileExecutableDetected
  • 4688

Dataset version 0.5.3, built 2026-11-08, from public sources only. Vendor rule names, requirement text and ATT&CK content are reproduced as published; the links between them are the authors' analysis. See the references for each source, its version and its license.