Detection rules › Sigma

Uncommon System Information Discovery Via Wmic.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
TropChaud
Source
upstream

Detects the use of the WMI command-line (WMIC) utility to identify and display various system information, including OS, CPU, GPU, and disk drive names; memory capacity; display resolution; and baseboard, BIOS, and GPU driver products/versions. Some of these commands were used by Aurora Stealer in late 2022/early 2023.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
DiscoveryT1082 System Information Discovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_wmic

or:
Description: 'WMI Commandline Utility'
Image|endswith: '\WMIC.exe'
OriginalFileName: wmic.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_commands

or:
CommandLine|contains: 'LOGICALDISK get Name,Size,FreeSpace'
CommandLine|contains: 'os get Caption,OSArchitecture,Version'

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
  • LOGICALDISK get Name,Size,FreeSpace
  • os get Caption,OSArchitecture,Version
Descriptioneq
  • WMI Commandline Utility
Imageends_with
  • \WMIC.exe corpus 12 (sigma 12)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • wmic.exe corpus 33 (sigma 33)