Using Sysmon to analyze a malware sample

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Sysmon, short for System Monitor, is a Windows-based tool that allows for the monitoring of system activity and the collection of event log data. It is often used in malware reverse engineering to analyze malware samples and identify their behavior on a system.
Sysmon can be used to monitor a variety of system-level activities, including process creation and termination, file creation and modification, network connections, and registry changes. This information can be used to identify the behavior of malware samples, such as attempts to establish persistence, communicate with a command-and-control server, or steal data.
Sysmon provides a customizable configuration file that allows security researchers to fine-tune their malware analysis process. This includes the ability to filter events by specific criteria, such as process names, command-line arguments, or network addresses. Additionally, Sysmon supports output to multiple formats, including the Windows event log, Syslog, and JSON.