Thursday, April 4, 2019

File Integrity Violation in Windows System

The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification. The invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error. It is, therefore, very crucial to detect and determine whether or not a file is a valid one. For this purpose code integrity can be used to determine if image hash of a file is not valid.



In windows you can look for event id 5038 to check for file integrity. Code integrity feature in windows is used to check if signature of a file is not valid.

Currently there is no example of this event, however, you can expect following

Subcategory: Audit System Integrity

Event Schema:

Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid. The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.

File Name: %filepath\filename%


Security Monitoring Recommendations by Windows
Monitoring this event especially on high value assets or computers, because it can be a sign of a software or configuration issue, or a malicious action.

SIEM Alert Rule
event_id=5038

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