WMI Persistence - Script Event Consumer

Severity: medium
Author: Thomas Patzke
Source: upstream

Detects WMI script event consumers

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1546.003` Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription
Privilege Escalation	`T1546.003` Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation
Security-Auditing	4688	A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

Image: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\scrcons.exe'
ParentImage: 'C:\Windows\System32\svchost.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.