Potential WMI Lateral Movement WmiPrvSE Spawned PowerShell
Detects Powershell as a child of the WmiPrvSE process. Which could be a sign of lateral movement via WMI.
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1title: Potential WMI Lateral Movement WmiPrvSE Spawned PowerShell
2id: 692f0bec-83ba-4d04-af7e-e884a96059b6
3related:
4 - id: 8a582fe2-0882-4b89-a82a-da6b2dc32937
5 type: similar
6 - id: d21374ff-f574-44a7-9998-4a8c8bf33d7d
7 type: similar
8status: stable
9description: Detects Powershell as a child of the WmiPrvSE process. Which could be a sign of lateral movement via WMI.
10references:
11 - https://any.run/report/68bc255f9b0db6a0d30a8f2dadfbee3256acfe12497bf93943bc1eab0735e45e/a2385d6f-34f7-403c-90d3-b1f9d2a90a5e
12author: Markus Neis @Karneades
13date: 2019-04-03
14modified: 2023-03-29
15tags:
16 - attack.execution
17 - attack.t1047
18 - attack.t1059.001
19logsource:
20 category: process_creation
21 product: windows
22detection:
23 selection_parent:
24 ParentImage|endswith: '\WmiPrvSE.exe'
25 selection_img:
26 - Image|endswith:
27 - '\powershell.exe'
28 - '\pwsh.exe'
29 - OriginalFileName:
30 - 'PowerShell.EXE'
31 - 'pwsh.dll'
32 condition: all of selection_*
33falsepositives:
34 - AppvClient
35 - CCM
36 - WinRM
37level: medium
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