WMI Suspicious Powershell Cmdlets (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)

 1title: WMI Suspicious Powershell Cmdlets (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)
 2id: 75b32717-173f-45d0-9447-be84f8bdcce5
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects WMI-related suspicious powershell cmdlets. Part of the RedCanary 2023 Threat Detection Report.
 5references:
 6    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/windows-management-instrumentation/
 7author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
 8date: 2023/05/10
 9tags:
10    - attack.execution
11    - attack.t1047
12logsource:
13    category: process_creation
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        Image|endswith: '\powershell.exe'
18        CommandLine|contains:
19            - 'invoke-wmimethod'
20            - 'invoke-cimmethod'
21            - 'get-wmiobject'
22            - 'get-ciminstance'
23            - 'wmiclass'
24    condition: selection
25falsepositives:
26    - Unknown.
27level: low```

References

• Windows Management Instrumentation & Impacket’s WMIexec | Red Canary

  

  Windows Management Instrumentation is a mainstay in our top 10 techniques, largely due to adversary abuse of Impacket’s WMIexec module.

  
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