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Unload sysmon driver which causes the system to stop recording sysmon event logs.

Unloading Sysmon Driver

Execution

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fltMC.exe unload SysmonDrv

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Observations

Windows event logs suggesting SysmonDrv was unloaded successfully:

As well as processes requesting special privileges:

Note how in the last 35 minutes since the driver was unloaded, no further process creation events were recorded, although I spawned new processes during that time:

Note how the system thinks that the sysmon is still running, which it is, but not doing anything useful:

References

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