// REFERENCE
Sysmon 11 — File created
Log: Sysmon/Operational
Medium risk
A file was created (Sysmon). Useful to hunt droppers and filesystem persistence: executables in %TEMP%, scripts in the Startup folder, or payloads written by Office processes. It records the creating process and the path.
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Sysmon 1 — Process creation 3
Sysmon 3 — Network connection 7
Sysmon 7 — Image (DLL) loaded 8
Sysmon 8 — CreateRemoteThread 10
Sysmon 10 — Process access 13
Sysmon 13 — Registry value set
Sysmon 1 — Process creation 3
Sysmon 3 — Network connection 7
Sysmon 7 — Image (DLL) loaded 8
Sysmon 8 — CreateRemoteThread 10
Sysmon 10 — Process access 13
Sysmon 13 — Registry value set
Original descriptions based on Microsoft's public documentation. IDs and fields may vary with the Windows version and the active audit policy.