Sysmon 8 — CreateRemoteThread

Source and collection

Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational; native XML export, not an EVTX binary file.

Install Sysmon and review the installed schema and filtering configuration. Use sysmon64 -s to inspect supported fields; preserve the deployed configuration version.

Native example and provenance

upstream test fixture. Published example; no independent capture provenance claimed.

Original publisher / pinned upstream fixture — events[211].event.original

Decoded event.original string; retained the complete Event XML element, excluding any appended rendered message; native XML values unchanged.

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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon" Guid="{5770385F-C22A-43E0-BF4C-06F5698FFBD9}" /><EventID>8</EventID><Version>2</Version><Level>4</Level><Task>8</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-05-13T22:53:43.214864300Z" /><EventRecordID>739823</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="2848" ThreadID="3520" /><Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational</Channel><Computer>rfsH.lab.local</Computer><Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /></System><EventData><Data Name="UtcTime">2017-05-13 22:53:43.214</Data><Data Name="SourceProcessGuid">{A23EAE89-8E6D-5917-0000-0010DFAF5004}</Data><Data Name="SourceProcessId">8804</Data><Data Name="SourceImage">C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64\msvsmon.exe</Data><Data Name="TargetProcessGuid">{A23EAE89-8E5A-5917-0000-00100E3E4D04}</Data><Data Name="TargetProcessId">2024</Data><Data Name="TargetImage">C:\repos\Supercharger\Mtg.Supercharger.ControllerService\bin\x64\Debug\Mtg.Supercharger.ControllerService.exe</Data><Data Name="NewThreadId">20532</Data><Data Name="StartAddress">0x00007FFB09321970</Data><Data Name="StartModule">C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll</Data><Data Name="StartFunction">DbgUiRemoteBreakin</Data></EventData></Event>

Structure and field interpretation

EventID

8 in Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon.

UtcTime

Producer-supplied event time.

ProcessGuid

Process correlation identifier where present; case-sensitive field names vary by event.

Relevant fields

SourceProcessGuid, TargetProcessGuid, StartAddress

Investigation uses

• Investigate cross-process thread creation with module and process context.
• Correlate ProcessGuid across Sysmon events; keep the host identity and time interval with every join.

Validation boundaries

Not every injection method creates a remote thread; a record is not proof of malicious injection.

This sample passed byte-integrity and JSON/XML parsing checks, including the catalogue’s specified event discriminators. This is not a complete vendor-schema validation or a tested detection.

For a simulation, first parse this fixture offline, then create a separately labelled synthetic variant and test it against the intended collector in an isolated lab. Never replay public example identities or destinations into production.

Related sources

• Windows Security 4688 — Process creation
• Sysmon 1 — Process creation
• Sysmon 3 — Network connection
• Sysmon 7 — Image loaded
• Sysmon 13 — Registry value set
• Sysmon 22 — DNS query

Ecosystem connections

• Telemetry Library — ATT&CK data components
• Detection Rules — candidate detection content
• Threat hunting — from intelligence to validated defense
• Practical security learning paths
• AdversaryGraph — evidence-led investigation

References

• Sysmon - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn
• Sysmon events | Microsoft Learn

Sample provenance is linked above. Field availability and product behavior must be checked against the deployed version.