Application Terminated Via Wmic.EXE

Severity: medium
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects calls to the "terminate" function via wmic in order to kill an application

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: terminate

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) `terminate`
`Image`	ends_with	`\WMIC.exe` corpus 12 (sigma 12)
`OriginalFileName`	eq	`wmic.exe` corpus 33 (sigma 33)