WMI Event Subscription
Detects creation of WMI event subscription persistence method
Sigma rule (View on GitHub)
1title: WMI Event Subscription
2id: 0f06a3a5-6a09-413f-8743-e6cf35561297
3status: test
4description: Detects creation of WMI event subscription persistence method
5references:
6 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon#event-id-19-wmievent-wmieventfilter-activity-detected
7 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon#event-id-20-wmievent-wmieventconsumer-activity-detected
8 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon#event-id-21-wmievent-wmieventconsumertofilter-activity-detected
9author: Tom Ueltschi (@c_APT_ure)
10date: 2019-01-12
11modified: 2021-11-27
12tags:
13 - attack.persistence
14 - attack.t1546.003
15logsource:
16 product: windows
17 category: wmi_event
18detection:
19 selection:
20 EventID:
21 - 19
22 - 20
23 - 21
24 condition: selection
25falsepositives:
26 - Exclude legitimate (vetted) use of WMI event subscription in your network
27level: medium
References
Related rules
- New ActiveScriptEventConsumer Created Via Wmic.EXE
- Suspicious Encoded Scripts in a WMI Consumer
- WMI ActiveScriptEventConsumers Activity Via Scrcons.EXE DLL Load
- WMI Backdoor Exchange Transport Agent
- WMI Persistence