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WMI Persistence - Security

Detects suspicious WMI event filter and command line event consumer based on WMI and Security Logs.

MITRE ATT&CK

persistenceprivilege-escalation

Detection Query

selection:
  EventID: 4662
  ObjectType: WMI Namespace
  ObjectName|contains: subscription
condition: selection

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Gleb Sukhodolskiy, Timur Zinniatullin oscd.community

Created

2017-08-22

Data Sources

windowssecurity

Platforms

windows

References

Tags

attack.persistenceattack.privilege-escalationattack.t1546.003

Raw Content

title: WMI Persistence - Security
id: f033f3f3-fd24-4995-97d8-a3bb17550a88
related:
    - id: 0b7889b4-5577-4521-a60a-3376ee7f9f7b
      type: derived
status: test
description: Detects suspicious WMI event filter and command line event consumer based on WMI and Security Logs.
references:
    - https://twitter.com/mattifestation/status/899646620148539397
    - https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Gleb Sukhodolskiy, Timur Zinniatullin oscd.community
date: 2017-08-22
modified: 2022-11-29
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1546.003
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: security
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 4662
        ObjectType: 'WMI Namespace'
        ObjectName|contains: 'subscription'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown (data set is too small; further testing needed)
level: medium