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WMI Persistence - Command Line Event Consumer

Severity
high
Author
Thomas Patzke
Source
upstream

Detects WMI command line event consumers

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1546.003 Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription
Privilege EscalationT1546.003 Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon7Image loaded

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image: 'C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe'
ImageLoaded|endswith: '\wbemcons.dll'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
Imageeq
  • C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe
ImageLoadedends_with
  • \wbemcons.dll