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WMI Persistence - Script Event Consumer

Detects WMI script event consumers

MITRE ATT&CK

persistenceprivilege-escalation

Detection Query

selection:
  Image: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\scrcons.exe
  ParentImage: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
condition: selection

Author

Thomas Patzke

Created

2018-03-07

Data Sources

windowsProcess Creation Events

Platforms

windows

References

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

Tags

attack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalationattack.t1546.003

Raw Content

title: WMI Persistence - Script Event Consumer
id: ec1d5e28-8f3b-4188-a6f8-6e8df81dc28e
status: test
description: Detects WMI script event consumers
references:
    - https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2018-03-07
modified: 2022-10-11
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1546.003
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\scrcons.exe
        ParentImage: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate event consumers
    - Dell computers on some versions register an event consumer that is known to cause false positives when brightness is changed by the corresponding keyboard button
level: medium