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Remote System Discovery T1018

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of other systems by IP address, hostname, or other logical identifier on a network that may be used for Lateral Movement from the current system. Functionality could exist within remote access tools to enable this, but utilities available on the operating system could also be used such as Ping, <code>net view</code> using Net, or, on ESXi servers, `esxcli network diag ping`.

Events covered

6 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Sysmon5Process terminated
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.
Security-Auditing4689A process has exited.
Defender-DeviceProcessEvents9001000Process activity (any)
PowerShell4104Creating Scriptblock text (MessageNumber of MessageTotal).

Authoring guide

Patterns shared across the 23 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.

Fields filtered most (14 distinct)

The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.

FieldRulesHowSample values
CommandLine11match 11args, &cd&echo, users_noexpire, -subnets -f, domainlist
ScriptBlockText11eq 8, match 3, in 1"*Get-DomainComputer*", "*Get-NetComputer*", Get-AdComputer , -Properties , -LDAPFilter
Image8ends_with 8\w3wp.exe, \nxc.exe, \nltest.exe, \python.exe, \AdFind.exe
EventID8eq 84104
OriginalFileName4eq 4nltestrk.exe, AdFind.exe, net.exe, net1.exe, wmic.exe
ParentImage3ends_with 3, match 2\httpd.exe, \tomcat, \nginx.exe, \w3wp.exe
FileName1eq 1AdFind.exe
SHA2561eq 1c92c158d7c37fea795114fa6491fe5f145ad2f8c08776b18ae79db811e8e36a3
InitiatingProcessFileName1eq 1parentProcesses
TargetProcessSHA2561eq 1c92c158d7c37fea795114fa6491fe5f145ad2f8c08776b18ae79db811e8e36a3
ActingProcessName1match 1parentProcesses
Process1ends_with 1AdFind.exe
ActingProcessFileName1eq 1parentProcesses
Hashes1match 1IMPHASH=53E117A96057EAF19C41380D0E87F1C2, IMPHASH=21aa085d54992511b9f115355e468782, IMPHASH=12ce1c0f3f5837ecc18a3782408fa975

Top indicator values (193 distinct)

Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventIDeq41048108
ParentImageends_with\w3wp.exe38
ScriptBlockTexteq"*Get-DomainComputer*"33
CommandLinematchargs2
CommandLinematch&cd&echo22
CommandLinematchname="Domain Admins"22
CommandLinematchcomputer_pwdnotreqd22
CommandLinematchdomainncs22
CommandLinematchdcmodes22
CommandLinematch-subnets -f22
CommandLinematchcomputers_pwdnotreqd22
CommandLinematchadinfo22
CommandLinematchdompol22
CommandLinematchsubnetdmp22
CommandLinematchobjectcategory=22
CommandLinematch-sc u:22
CommandLinematchfspdmp22
CommandLinematch oudmp 22
CommandLinematchtrustdmp22
CommandLinematchdomainlist22

Rules under this technique

Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.

Sigma 13 rules

Splunk 8 rules

Kusto Query Language 2 rules