New Process Created Via Wmic.EXE

Severity: medium
Author: Michael Haag, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), juju4, oscd.community
Source: upstream

Detects new process creation using WMIC via the "process call create" flag

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Execution	`T1047` Windows Management Instrumentation

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `all of selection_img`

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

Stage 2: `all of selection_cli`

CommandLine|contains: call
CommandLine|contains: create
CommandLine|contains: process

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.

Field	Kind	Values
`CommandLine`	match	`call` corpus 7 (sigma 7) `create` corpus 8 (sigma 8) `process` corpus 3 (sigma 3)
`Image`	ends_with	`\wmic.exe` corpus 37 (sigma 37)
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`wmic.exe` corpus 33 (sigma 33)