[metadata] creation_date = "2023/08/24" integration = ["endpoint", "windows", "system"] maturity = "production" updated_date = "2025/03/20" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] building_block_type = "default" description = """ Adversaries may abuse the WMI diagnostic tool, wbemtest.exe, to enumerate WMI object instances or invoke methods against local or remote endpoints. """ from = "now-119m" index = [ "endgame-*", "logs-endpoint.events.process-*", "logs-system.security*", "logs-windows.*", "winlogbeat-*", ] interval = "60m" language = "eql" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "WMI WBEMTEST Utility Execution" risk_score = 21 rule_id = "d3551433-782f-4e22-bbea-c816af2d41c6" severity = "low" tags = [ "Domain: Endpoint", "OS: Windows", "Use Case: Threat Detection", "Tactic: Execution", "Data Source: Elastic Defend", "Rule Type: BBR", "Data Source: Elastic Endgame", "Data Source: Windows Security Event Logs", ] timestamp_override = "event.ingested" type = "eql" query = ''' process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and process.name : "wbemtest.exe" ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1047" name = "Windows Management Instrumentation" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1047/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0002" name = "Execution" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/"