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Group Membership Reconnaissance Via Whoami.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of whoami.exe with the /group command line flag to show group membership for the current user, account type, security identifiers (SID), and attributes.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
DiscoveryT1033 System Owner/User Discovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\whoami.exe'
OriginalFileName: whoami.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' -groups'
CommandLine|contains: ' /groups'

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
  • -groups
  • /groups
Imageends_with
  • \whoami.exe corpus 18 (sigma 18)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • whoami.exe corpus 9 (sigma 9)