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Detected Windows Software Discovery

Severity
medium
Author
Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
Source
upstream

Adversaries may attempt to enumerate software for a variety of reasons, such as figuring out what security measures are present or if the compromised system has a version of software that is vulnerable.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
DiscoveryT1518 Software Discovery

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '/v'
CommandLine|contains: '\software\'
CommandLine|contains: query
CommandLine|contains: svcversion
Image|endswith: '\reg.exe'

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
  • /v corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • \software\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • query corpus 6 (sigma 6)
  • svcversion
Imageends_with
  • \reg.exe corpus 46 (sigma 46)