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Remote PowerShell Session Host Process (WinRM)

Severity
medium
Author
Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g
Source
upstream

Detects remote PowerShell sections by monitoring for wsmprovhost (WinRM host process) as a parent or child process (sign of an active PowerShell remote session).

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
Lateral MovementT1021.006 Remote Services: Windows Remote Management

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Image|endswith: '\wsmprovhost.exe'
ParentImage|endswith: '\wsmprovhost.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
Imageends_with
  • \wsmprovhost.exe corpus 3 (sigma 3)
ParentImageends_with
  • \wsmprovhost.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)