EVID 8 : Create Remote Thread (Sysmon 7.01)

Event Details

Event Type	CreateRemoteThread
Event Description	8 : Detects when a process creates a thread in another process.
Event ID	8

Log Fields and Parsing

This section details the log fields available in this log message type, along with values parsed for both LogRhythm Default and LogRhythm Default v2.0 policies. A value of "N/A" (not applicable) means that there is no value parsed for a specified log field.

Log Field	LogRhythm Default	LogRhythm Default v2.0
Provider	N/A	N/A
EventID	<vmid>	<vmid>
Version	N/A	N/A
Level	<severity>	<severity>
Task	<vendorinfo>	<vendorinfo>
Opcode	N/A	N/A
Keywords	N/A	<result>
TimeCreated	N/A	N/A
EventRecordID	N/A	N/A
Correlation	N/A	N/A
Execution	N/A	N/A
Channel	N/A	N/A
Computer	<dname>	<dname>
Security	N/A	N/A
SourceProcessGuid	<session>	N/A
SourceProcessId	<parentprocessid>	<parentprocessid>
SourceImage	<parentprocesspath>, <parentprocessname>	<parentprocessname>
TargetProcessGuid	N/A	N/A
TargetProcessId	<processid>	<processid>
TargetImage	<processpath>, <process>, <subject>	<process>
NewThreadId	N/A	N/A
StartAddress	N/A	N/A
StartModule	N/A	N/A
StartFunction	N/A	N/A
RuleName	N/A	<policy>
UserId	<domain><login>	N/A

Log Processing Settings

This section details log processing changes made from the LogRhythm Default policy to LogRhythm Default v2.0. In some cases, base rules are broken down into sub-rules to appropriately parse log message types by their event types.

LogRhythm Default

Regex ID	Rule Name	Rule Type	Common Events	Classification
1009426	EVID 8 : Create Remote Thread	Base Rule	Process/Service Started	Startup and Shutdown

LogRhythm Default v2.0

Regex ID	Rule Name	Rule Type	Common Events	Classification
1011227	V 2.0 : EVID 8 : Remote Thread Created	Base Rule	Process/Service Started	Startup and Shutdown