Successful Account Login Via WMI

Severity: low
Author: Thomas Patzke
Source: upstream

Detects successful logon attempts performed with WMI

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Execution	`T1047` Windows Management Instrumentation

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Security-Auditing	4624	An account was successfully logged on.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

ProcessName|endswith: '\WmiPrvSE.exe'

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
`ProcessName`	ends_with	`\WmiPrvSE.exe`

Neighbors

Broader alternatives (more inclusive than this rule)

These rules match a superset of what this rule catches. They cover the same events plus more. Use them if you want wider coverage and can absorb more false positives.

Potential Account Takeover - Mixed Logon Types [elastic] (cross-vendor) (drops 1 filter this rule applies) (first-stage match only; downstream stages may differ)
Potential Account Takeover - Logon from New Source IP [elastic] (cross-vendor) (drops 1 filter this rule applies) (first-stage match only; downstream stages may differ)