Suspicious Process Created Via Wmic.EXE

Severity: high
Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects WMIC executing "process call create" with suspicious calls to processes such as "rundll32", "regsrv32", etc.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Execution	`T1047` Windows Management Instrumentation

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`

or:
CommandLine|contains: '%ProgramData%'
CommandLine|contains: '%appdata%'
CommandLine|contains: '%comspec%'
CommandLine|contains: '%localappdata%'
CommandLine|contains: '%temp%'
CommandLine|contains: '%tmp%'
CommandLine|contains: '\AppData\Local\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Users\Public\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Windows\Temp\'
CommandLine|contains: bitsadmin
CommandLine|contains: certutil
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd /c '
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd /k '
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd /r '
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd.exe /c '
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd.exe /k '
CommandLine|contains: 'cmd.exe /r '
CommandLine|contains: cscript
CommandLine|contains: mshta
CommandLine|contains: powershell
CommandLine|contains: pwsh
CommandLine|contains: regsvr32
CommandLine|contains: rundll32
CommandLine|contains: wscript
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.