Sigma rule: Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled
A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-74969aab5dc7, updated 2024-07-05T00:00:00.000Z.
Rule
- Title
- Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled
- Status
- test
- Level
- high
- Author
- Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
- Date
- 2024-07-05
- File
- rules/windows/registry/registry_set/registry_set_deviceguard_hypervisorenforcedpagingtranslation_disabled.yml
- Commit
- ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84
Detects changes to the "DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation" registry value. Where the it is set to "1" in order to disable the Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation feature.
Log source
- product
- windows
- category
- registry_set
Detection
selection:
TargetObject|endswith: '\DisableHypervisorEnforcedPagingTranslation'
Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
condition: selectionFalse positives (as the rule lists them)
- Unknown
Tags
- attack.defense-impairment
- attack.t1685
MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names
References
- https://twitter.com/standa_t/status/1808868985678803222
- https://github.com/AaLl86/WindowsInternals/blob/070dc4f317726dfb6ffd2b7a7c121a33a8659b5e/Slides/Hypervisor-enforced%20Paging%20Translation%20-%20The%20end%20of%20non%20data-driven%20Kernel%20Exploits%20(Recon2024).pdf
Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/registry/registry_set/registry_set_deviceguard_hypervisorenforcedpagingtranslation_disabled.yml
Sources and licences
SigmaHQ
"Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled" by Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/registry/registry_set/registry_set_deviceguard_hypervisorenforcedpagingtranslation_disabled.yml.
Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License
Cite this page
Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: Hypervisor Enforced Paging Translation Disabled",
entity page, dataset version ref-74969aab5dc7, updated 2024-07-05T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/7f2954d2-99c2-4d42-a065-ca36740f187b (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule 7f2954d2-99c2-4d42-a065-ca36740f187b, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.
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