Sysmon

Logging endpoints and environment on Windows

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log. It provides detailed information about:

  • process creations

  • network connections

  • changes to files

Events within Sysmon are stored in Applications and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Sysmon/Operational.

Here is a list of some important Sysmon events:

Event ID
Event Description

1

Process Creation

3

Network Connection

7

Image Loaded

8

CreateRemoteThread

11

File Created

12/13/14

Registry Event

15

FileCreateStreamHash

22

DNS Event

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