Sysmon Base Configuration - Workstations

config-client.xml

<!-- 
   This is a Microsoft Sysmon configuation to be used on Windows workstations
   v0.1 
   Florian Roth (with the help and ideas of others)
   
   The focus of this configuration is 
   - malware detection (execution)
   - malware detection (network connections)
   - exploit detection
   It is not focussed on 
   - hacking activity on workstation (bad admin, attacker)
   
   See Windows server base config: https://gist.github.com/Neo23x0/a4b4af9481e01e749409
--> 
<Sysmon schemaversion="2.01">
    <!-- Capture MD5 Hashes -->
    <HashAlgorithms>*</HashAlgorithms>
    <EventFiltering>
        <!-- Log all drivers except if the signature -->
        <!-- contains Microsoft or Windows -->
        <DriverLoad onmatch="exclude">
            <Signature condition="contains">microsoft</Signature>
            <Signature condition="contains">windows</Signature>
        </DriverLoad>
        <!-- Exclude certain processes that have the integrity level 'System' -->
        <ProcessCreate onmatch="exclude">
            <IntegrityLevel>System</IntegrityLevel>
        </ProcessCreate>
        <!-- Do not log file creation time stamps -->
        <FileCreateTime onmatch="include" />
        <!-- Do not log raw disk access (caused event flooding with certain disk encryption drivers) -->
        <RawAccessRead onmatch="include" />
        <!-- Do not log process termination -->
        <ProcessTerminate onmatch="include" />
        <!-- Do only log network connections to port 8080 (proxy) of every program that is not a browser -->
        <NetworkConnect onmatch="exclude">
            <Image condition="contains">chrome.exe</Image>
            <Image condition="contains">iexplore.exe</Image> <!-- yes, malware that injects into IE will be missed -->
            <Image condition="contains">firefox.exe</Image>
            <DestinationPort condition="is not">8080</DestinationPort>
            <!-- Direct access to Internet (without proxy server) -->
            <!-- 
            <DestinationPort condition="is not">80</DestinationPort>
            -->
        </NetworkConnect>
    </EventFiltering>
</Sysmon>