WMI Reconnaissance

SIGMA detection rule by RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski · GPL-3.0

Reconnaissance is harder to detect because it looks very similar to normal admin behavior. Even so, we detect a relatively high volume of adversaries leveraging WMI to quickly gather domain information such as users, groups, or computers in the domain. The following may help you detect related activity. Part of the RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.

title: WMI Reconnaissance
id: 8a450075-e74f-4b19-9efa-b62a53f85bf8
status: experimental
description: |
    Reconnaissance is harder to detect because it looks very similar to normal admin behavior. 
    Even so, we detect a relatively high volume of adversaries leveraging WMI to quickly gather 
    domain information such as users, groups, or computers in the domain. The following may help 
    you detect related activity. Part of the RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.
references:
    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/windows-management-instrumentation/
author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
date: 2024/03/21
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1047
    - attack.discovery
    - attack.t1087
    - attack.t1087.002
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith: '\wmic.exe'
        CommandLine|contains:
            - '\ldap'
            - 'ntdomain'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: low

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