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T1564 Hide Artifacts

stealth — ESXi, Linux, macOS, Office Suite, Windows · attack.mitre.org · JSON

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MITRE detection strategy
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analytics
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Sigma rules tagged attack.t1564
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KEV CVEs mapped here
<p>Adversaries may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection. Operating systems may have features to hide various artifacts, such as important system files and administrative task execution, to avoid disrupting user work environments and prevent users from changing files or features on the system. Adversaries may abuse these features to hide artifacts such as files, directories, user accounts, or other system activity to evade detection.</p><p>Adversaries may also attempt to hide artifacts associated with malicious behavior by creating computing regions that are isolated from common security instrumentation, such as through the use of virtualization technology.</p>

KEV CVEs mapped to this technique · CTID Mappings Explorer

None. No KEV entry in the public mapping names this technique. Given that 74.7% of KEV has no mapping at all, this says more about the mapping than about the technique.

Detection strategy · ATT&CK Enterprise v19.2

Sigma rules · SigmaHQ da9bb07d64, tag attack.t1564

Sysmon Configuration Modification hightest
Author: frack113 · 2021-06-04 (modified 2022-08-02) · logsource: product=windows category=sysmon_status · 1f2b5353-573f-4880-8e33-7d04dcf97744
Detects when an attacker tries to hide from Sysmon by disabling or stopping it
Techniques: T1564
CrashControl CrashDump Disabled mediumtest
Author: Tobias Michalski (Nextron Systems) · 2022-02-24 (modified 2023-08-17) · logsource: product=windows category=registry_set · 2ff692c2-4594-41ec-8fcb-46587de769e0
Detects disabling the CrashDump per registry (as used by HermeticWiper)
Techniques: T1564T1112
PUA - System Informer Execution mediumtest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2023-05-08 (modified 2024-11-23) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 5722dff1-4bdd-4949-86ab-fbaf707e767a
Detects the execution of System Informer, a task manager tool to view and manipulate processes, kernel options and other low level operations
Techniques: T1082T1564T1543
Potentially Suspicious Execution From Parent Process In Public Folder hightest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) · 2022-02-25 (modified 2024-07-12) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 69bd9b97-2be2-41b6-9816-fb08757a4d1a
Detects a potentially suspicious execution of a parent process located in the "\Users\Public" folder executing a child process containing references to shell or scripting binaries and commandlines.
Techniques: T1564T1059
Suspicious Executable File Creation hightest
Author: frack113 · 2022-09-05 (modified 2023-12-11) · logsource: product=windows category=file_event · 74babdd6-a758-4549-9632-26535279e654
Detect creation of suspicious executable file names. Some strings look for suspicious file extensions, others look for filenames that exploit unquoted service paths.
Techniques: T1564
PUA - Process Hacker Execution mediumtest
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2022-10-10 (modified 2024-11-23) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 811e0002-b13b-4a15-9d00-a613fce66e42
Detects the execution of Process Hacker based on binary metadata information (Image, Hash, Imphash, etc). Process Hacker is a tool to view and manipulate processes, kernel options and other low level options. Threat actors abused older vulnerable versions to manipulate system processes.
Techniques: T1622T1564T1543
Sysmon Configuration Error hightest
Author: frack113 · 2021-06-04 (modified 2026-07-23) · logsource: product=windows category=sysmon_error · 815cd91b-7dbc-4247-841a-d7dd1392b0a8
Detects when an adversary is trying to hide it's action from Sysmon logging based on error messages
Techniques: T1564
Virtualbox Driver Installation or Starting of VMs lowtest
Author: Janantha Marasinghe · 2020-09-26 (modified 2025-07-29) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · bab049ca-7471-4828-9024-38279a4c04da
Adversaries can carry out malicious operations using a virtual instance to avoid detection. This rule is built to detect the registration of the Virtualbox driver or start of a Virtualbox VM.
Techniques: T1564.006T1564
Suspicious Creation with Colorcpl hightest
Author: frack113 · 2022-01-21 (modified 2023-01-05) · logsource: product=windows category=file_event · e15b518d-b4ce-4410-a9cd-501f23ce4a18
Once executed, colorcpl.exe will copy the arbitrary file to c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color\
Techniques: T1564
Mount Execution With Hidepid Parameter mediumtest
Author: Joseliyo Sanchez, @Joseliyo_Jstnk · 2023-01-12 · logsource: product=linux category=process_creation · ec52985a-d024-41e3-8ff6-14169039a0b3
Detects execution of the "mount" command with "hidepid" parameter to make invisible processes to other users from the system
Techniques: T1564

Sub-techniques

IDNameSigma rulesKEV CVEs
T1564.001Hidden Files and Directories90
T1564.002Hidden Users40
T1564.003Hidden Window80
T1564.004NTFS File Attributes230
T1564.005Hidden File System00
T1564.006Run Virtual Instance20
T1564.007VBA Stomping00
T1564.008Email Hiding Rules40
T1564.009Resource Forking00
T1564.010Process Argument Spoofing00
T1564.011Ignore Process Interrupts00
T1564.012File/Path Exclusions00
T1564.013Bind Mounts00
T1564.014Extended Attributes00