// REFERENCE
Sysmon 3 — Network connection
Log: Sysmon/Operational
Medium risk
A network connection initiated by a process (Sysmon). It ties the process to the destination IP/port, ideal to detect C2: processes that shouldn't reach the internet (e.g. rundll32, mshta) making connections, or periodic beacons.
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Sysmon 1 — Process creation 7
Sysmon 7 — Image (DLL) loaded 8
Sysmon 8 — CreateRemoteThread 10
Sysmon 10 — Process access 11
Sysmon 11 — File created 13
Sysmon 13 — Registry value set
Sysmon 1 — Process creation 7
Sysmon 7 — Image (DLL) loaded 8
Sysmon 8 — CreateRemoteThread 10
Sysmon 10 — Process access 11
Sysmon 11 — File created 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.