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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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If I had to bet my money, a bad machine with corrupted memory pushed the file at a very final stage of the release.
The astonishing fact is that for a security software I would expect all files being verified against a signature (that would have prevented this issue and some kinds of attacks
Windows kernel drivers are signed by Microsoft. They must have rubber stamped this for this to go through, though.
This was not the driver, it was a config file or something read by the driver. Now having a driver in kernel space depending on a config on a regular path is another fuck up
isn't .sys a driver?
Not just drivers, no https://fileinfo.com/extension/sys
So yes, .sys is by convention on Windows is for a kernel mode driver. However, Crowdstrike specifically uses .sys for non-driver files and this specifically was not a driver.