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API Reference: Detecting Evasion Techniques in Endpoint Logs

Key Windows Event IDs for Evasion

Event ID Source Evasion Technique
1102 Security Audit log cleared (T1070.001)
Sysmon 2 Sysmon Timestomping (T1070.006)
Sysmon 8 Sysmon CreateRemoteThread (T1055)
Sysmon 10 Sysmon Process Access / LSASS (T1003)
4688 Security Process creation with cmdline

python-evtx Usage

import Evtx.Evtx as evtx
with evtx.Evtx("Sysmon.evtx") as log:
    for record in log.records():
        xml = record.xml()
        # Parse EventID, CommandLine, SourceImage, TargetImage

Evasion Detection Patterns

# Log clearing
r"wevtutil\s+(cl|clear-log)"
r"Clear-EventLog"
# Security tool disable
r"Set-MpPreference\s+-DisableRealtimeMonitoring\s+\$true"
r"sc\s+(stop|delete)\s+WinDefend"
# AMSI bypass
r"[Ref].Assembly.GetType.*AMSI"
r"amsiInitFailed"

MITRE ATT&CK TA0005 Techniques

Technique ID Detection
Indicator Removal T1070 Log clearing, file deletion
Timestomping T1070.006 Sysmon Event ID 2
Process Injection T1055 Sysmon Event ID 8
Impair Defenses T1562.001 AV/EDR disabling commands
AMSI Bypass T1562.001 PowerShell AMSI patching

Splunk SPL Detection

index=sysmon (EventCode=2 OR EventCode=8 OR EventCode=10)
| eval technique=case(
    EventCode=2, "Timestomping",
    EventCode=8, "Process Injection",
    EventCode=10, "Process Access")
| stats count by technique, SourceImage, Computer

CLI Usage

python agent.py --evtx-file Sysmon.evtx
python agent.py --evtx-file Security.evtx