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Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled

Detects changes to the "DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" registry value. Where the it is set to "1" in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation feature.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1685

Detection Query

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

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Created

2024-07-05

Data Sources

windowsRegistry Set Events

Platforms

windows

References

Tags

attack.defense-impairmentattack.t1685

Raw Content

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