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Sysmon Event IDs

ID Event Hunt value
1 Process Create Lineage, command line, hash, Process GUID
2 File creation time changed Timestomping lead
3 Network Connection Process-to-destination correlation
4 / 5 Sysmon state / process terminated Collection and process lifecycle
6 / 7 Driver / Image loaded Driver and DLL provenance
8 CreateRemoteThread Injection lead; correlate, do not convict
9 RawAccessRead Raw disk access
10 ProcessAccess Cross-process access and access rights
11 FileCreate Drop/write behavior
12 / 13 / 14 Registry create-delete / value set / rename Configuration and persistence
15 FileCreateStreamHash Alternate data streams
16 Sysmon configuration changed Collection tampering/change
17 / 18 Pipe created / connected IPC and named-pipe correlation
19 / 20 / 21 WMI filter / consumer / binding WMI persistence
22 DNS query Process-to-domain correlation
23 / 26 FileDelete archived / detected Destruction and cleanup
24 Clipboard changed Clipboard monitoring where configured
25 Process tampering Hollowing/tampering lead
27 / 28 FileBlockExecutable / FileBlockShredding Prevented execution or shredding

Injection correlation

Event 1 process created
  → Event 10 cross-process access
  → Event 8 remote thread
  → Event 3 unexpected network activity

Event 8 alone is not proof of injection. Review SourceImage, TargetImage, StartAddress, StartModule, and StartFunction.

Higher interest: a start address exists while module/function are blank or unresolved. The thread may start in dynamically allocated private memory rather than a normal image.

Pivot next: Event 10 access rights, source/target prevalence, lineage, command line, Event 7 image loads, Event 3/22 network activity, and memory telemetry.