Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled

Hunt Hypothesis

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

Detection Rule

Sigma (Original)

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

KQL (Azure Sentinel)

imRegistry
| where RegistryKey endswith "\\DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" and RegistryValueData =~ "DWORD (0x00000001)"

KQL (Microsoft 365 Defender)

DeviceRegistryEvents
| where RegistryKey endswith "\\DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" and RegistryValueData =~ "DWORD (0x00000001)"

Required Data Sources

False Positive Guidance

• Unknown

MITRE ATT&CK Context

• Technique: T1685 — T1685

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
• SigmaHQ Rule