Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled — Sigma Rule

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Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems). Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2024-07-05 / not supplied.

{
  "category": "registry_set",
  "product": "windows"
}

Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1

Source SHA-256: a61352f3535ac022bdb613f1de4836ca86078b79f7d0f5f8166820e727010cd2

Detection logic

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title: Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled
id: 7f2954d2-99c2-4d42-a065-ca36740f187b
status: test
description: |
    Detects changes to the "DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" registry value. Where the it is set to "1" in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation feature.
references:
    - https://twitter.com/standa_t/status/1808868985678803222
    - https://github.com/AaLl86/WindowsInternals/blob/070dc4f317726dfb6ffd2b7a7c121a33a8659b5e/Slides/Hypervisor-enforced%20Paging%20Translation%20-%20The%20end%20of%20non%20data-driven%20Kernel%20Exploits%20(Recon2024).pdf
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2024-07-05
tags:
    - attack.defense-impairment
    - attack.t1685
logsource:
    category: registry_set
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        TargetObject|endswith: '\DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation'
        Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

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False positives

• Unknown

Source references

• https://twitter.com/standa_t/status/1808868985678803222
• https://github.com/AaLl86/WindowsInternals/blob/070dc4f317726dfb6ffd2b7a7c121a33a8659b5e/Slides/Hypervisor-enforced%20Paging%20Translation%20-%20The%20end%20of%20non%20data-driven%20Kernel%20Exploits%20(Recon2024).pdf