Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled

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.

Query · sigma

selection:
  TargetObject|endswith: \DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation
  Details: DWORD (0x00000001)
condition: selection

Known false positives

  • Unknown
Raw source Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled · Sigma
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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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