Working with Process Monitor
Now that we have seen how to gather leads using Process Explorer as well as which antivirus processes are running and monitoring the actions of the operating system without any user involvement, we can continue gathering research leads. This time, we will find the process the antivirus software uses to conduct file scans. We'll locate this lead through operating system monitoring using the Process Monitor tool.
Processor Monitor (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) is a tool that can be used to observe the behavior of each process in the operating system. For example, if we run the notepad.exe
process, writing content into it, and then save the content into a file, Process Monitor will be able to see everything that happened from the moment we executed the process, until the moment we closed it, like in the following example: