Detection rules › Sigma

DLL Execution Via Register-cimprovider.exe

Severity
medium
Author
Ivan Dyachkov, Yulia Fomina, oscd.community
Source
upstream

Detects using register-cimprovider.exe to execute arbitrary dll file.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege EscalationT1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Defense EvasionT1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: -path
CommandLine|contains: dll
Image|endswith: '\register-cimprovider.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
  • -path corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • dll
Imageends_with
  • \register-cimprovider.exe