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Potential Product Reconnaissance Via Wmic.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of WMIC in order to get a list of firewall and antivirus products

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1047 Windows Management Instrumentation

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process 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: Product

Stage 3: not 1 of filter_main_call_operations

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' install'
CommandLine|contains: ' uninstall'

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
  • install
  • uninstall
  • Product
Imageends_with
  • \wmic.exe corpus 37 (sigma 37)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • wmic.exe corpus 33 (sigma 33)