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Wscript Shell Run In CommandLine

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the presence of the keywords "Wscript", "Shell" and "Run" in the command, which could indicate a suspicious activity

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: .Run
CommandLine|contains: .Shell
CommandLine|contains: Wscript.

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
CommandLinematch
  • .Run
  • .Shell
  • Wscript.