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Research Update for src/generic-methodologies-and-resources/basic-forensic-methodology/file-integrity-monitoring.md

This PR contains automated research updates including:

• Latest security vulnerabilities and attack vectors
• Updated techniques and tools
• Enhanced explanations and examples
• Additional references and resources

Generated by: HackTricks Research Agent
Timestamp: 2026-03-27 13:27:05 UTC

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Research update for HackTricks content

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I’m reading the current page and the nearby forensic content first, then I’ll branch into recent research so the additions stay specific and don’t duplicate existing HackTricks material.
The current page is extremely thin, so I’m checking adjacent forensic and anti-forensic pages to keep this one focused on FIM-specific attacker tradecraft rather than generic host forensics.
Search is surfacing two useful directions: newer Linux backends beyond plain inotify, and attacker anti-forensics that bypass or race FIM coverage. I’m validating both with primary docs and a few concrete research posts before writing.
I have enough structure now: the page can be upgraded with concrete backend choices, operational blind spots, and short, copy-pastable examples. I’m pulling a few final details from vendor docs so the commands and caveats are exact.
I’ve narrowed the additions to what materially improves this page: actionable backend choices, known collection gaps, container and Windows specifics, and short setup examples. I’m writing those changes into the target file now and then I’ll verify the diff.
Updated file-integrity-monitoring.md with a much more practical FIM page. I expanded the baseline section to cover metadata beyond hashes, added Linux backend tradeoffs (inotify, auditd, eBPF/kprobes), documented common blind spots like atomic file replacement and watch exhaustion, added a short AIDE workflow and an osquery example, covered Windows USN Journal plus Sysmon Event IDs 11/2/15, and added a brief container overlay2 note so the page reflects where writes actually land.

I kept the page focused on attacker-relevant hunting and avoided duplicating the broader anti-forensics page by linking to it for ADS, timestomping, and USN tampering. I also replaced the weak generic references with two stronger references at the end and verified the final diff.

Research URLs used:

• https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/file-integrity-monitoring/
• https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-module-file_integrity
• https://www.elastic.co/blog/tracing-linux-file-integrity-monitoring-use-case
• https://aide.github.io/doc/
• https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/file-integrity/index.html
• https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/user-manual/capabilities/file-integrity/advanced-settings.html
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/sysmon/sysmon-events
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/fsutil-usn
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/drivers/overlayfs-driver/
• https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/fsverity.html

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