Bypass Record

BYOVD (Vulnerable Driver) × targeted EDR vendor EDR products

A publicly-reported instance of BYOVD (Vulnerable Driver) bypassing targeted EDR vendor EDR products, recorded with its original source. Factual record; no assessment of any specific deployment.

Product
targeted EDR vendor EDR products
Technique
BYOVD (Vulnerable Driver)
MITRE ATT&CK
T1562.001
Confidence
Medium
Severity
Critical
Status
in the wild
Disclosed
2024-09-13
Config / version noted
Not stated

Provenance

Reported as

malicious driver ... terminates EDR processes

Mechanism

Attackers stop the Windows Time service, set the system clock to a date within the validity period of an expired cross-signing certificate (pre-July 2015), then load a malicious driver signed with that certificate. The driver runs with kernel privileges and terminates EDR processes.

Detection & mitigation

Monitor for unexpected changes to system time (Event ID 1 from Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General or Event ID 4616) and the loading of drivers signed with expired certificates (Event ID 6 from Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon or 3004 from Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity). Enforce driver signing policies that block expired certificates and restrict SeSystemtimePrivilege to authorized processes.

BYOVD (Vulnerable Driver) has also been recorded against

This is a record of a publicly-reported event, not an assessment of any specific organization's deployment. Detection and mitigation notes are drawn from the cited source. Where the source is silent, fields are omitted.