Service Reconnaissance Via Wmic.EXE

An adversary might use WMI to check if a certain remote service is running on a remote device. When the test completes, a service information will be displayed on the screen if it exists. A common feedback message is that "No instance(s) Available" if the service queried is not running. A common error message is "Node - (provided IP or default) ERROR Description =The RPC server is unavailable" if the provided remote host is unreachable

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 1title: Service Reconnaissance Via Wmic.EXE
 2id: 76f55eaa-d27f-4213-9d45-7b0e4b60bbae
 3related:
 4    - id: 68bcd73b-37ef-49cb-95fc-edc809730be6
 5      type: similar
 6status: test
 7description: |
 8    An adversary might use WMI to check if a certain remote service is running on a remote device.
 9    When the test completes, a service information will be displayed on the screen if it exists.
10    A common feedback message is that "No instance(s) Available" if the service queried is not running.
11    A common error message is "Node - (provided IP or default) ERROR Description =The RPC server is unavailable" if the provided remote host is unreachable    
12references:
13    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1047/T1047.md
14    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wmic
15author: frack113, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
16date: 2023-02-14
17tags:
18    - attack.execution
19    - attack.t1047
20logsource:
21    category: process_creation
22    product: windows
23detection:
24    selection_img:
25        - Image|endswith: '\WMIC.exe'
26        - OriginalFileName: 'wmic.exe'
27    selection_cli:
28        CommandLine|contains: 'service'
29    condition: all of selection_*
30falsepositives:
31    - Unknown
32level: medium

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