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WMI Persistence - Command Line Event Consumer

Detects WMI command line event consumers

MITRE ATT&CK

privilege-escalationpersistence

Detection Query

selection:
  Image: C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe
  ImageLoaded|endswith: \wbemcons.dll
condition: selection

Author

Thomas Patzke

Created

2018-03-07

Data Sources

windowsImage Load Events

Platforms

windows

References

https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/

Tags

attack.privilege-escalationattack.t1546.003attack.persistence

Raw Content

title: WMI Persistence - Command Line Event Consumer
id: 05936ce2-ee05-4dae-9d03-9a391cf2d2c6
status: test
description: Detects WMI command line event consumers
references:
    - https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2018-03-07
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1546.003
    - attack.persistence
logsource:
    category: image_load
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image: 'C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe'
        ImageLoaded|endswith: '\wbemcons.dll'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown (data set is too small; further testing needed)
level: high