/Amaterasu

Amaterasu terminates, or inhibits, protected processes such as application control and AV/EDR solutions by leveraging the Sysinternals Process Explorer driver to kill a process's handles from kernel mode.

Primary LanguageC++BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Amaterasu

Description

Amaterasu terminates, or inhibits, protected processes such as application control and AV/EDR solutions by leveraging the Sysinternals Process Explorer driver to kill a process's handles from kernel mode. For protected processes which attempt to restore its handles or restarts itself, supply a process name (partial match) and Amaterasu will continuously kill any handles that are associated with that name until you tell it to stop [ESC]. Otherwise, supply the process ID and Amaterasu will stop after the process is terminated.

While Amaterasu isn't inherently malicious you should be mindful with its use. I am not liable for damages or loss of data resulting from this resource.

IoControlCode CloseHandle

Usage

  • Kill a specific process by its process ID
    PS> .\Amaterasu.exe -id 1234
    
  • Repeatedly kill processes that match a name
    PS> .\Amaterasu.exe -name Calc
    
Example

Example

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