title: Suspicious WMI Execution
id: 526be59f-a573-4eea-b5f7-f0973207634d
status: test
description: Detects WMI executing suspicious commands
author: Michael Haag, Florian Roth, juju4, oscd.community
references:
  - https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2010/06/04/wmic-draft/
  - https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/4be06ecd234e2110bd615649fe4a6fa95403979acf889d7e45a78985eb50acf9?environmentId=1
  - https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/04/rokku-ransomware/
date: 2019/01/16
modified: 2022/01/07
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith: '\wmic.exe'
  selection2:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
      - 'process'
      - 'call'
      - 'create '
  recon_part1:
    CommandLine|contains: ' path '
  recon_part2:
    CommandLine|contains:
      - 'AntiVirus'
      - 'Firewall'
    CommandLine|contains|all:
      - 'Product'
      - ' get '
  condition: (selection and selection2) or (selection and recon_part1 and recon_part2)
fields:
  - CommandLine
  - ParentCommandLine
falsepositives:
  - If using Splunk, we recommend | stats count by Computer,CommandLine following for easy hunting by Computer/CommandLine
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.execution
  - attack.t1047
  - car.2016-03-002
