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Successful Account Login Via WMI — Sigma Rule

Sigma rule 5af54681-df95-4c26-854f-2565e13cfab0. Successful Account Login Via WMI — Sigma Rule. Detects successful logon attempts performed with WMI

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: Thomas Patzke. Source status: stable; severity: low. Source dates: 2019-12-04 / 2024-01-17.

{
  "product": "windows",
  "service": "security"
}

Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1

Source SHA-256: 0c4361f16da6a09c495330bb63cdb4bbf51f09cd4979d3fa8fe966319742fe72

Detection logic

Original source YAML. Source-tag agreement is not proof of complete semantic coverage. This rule has not been compiled for a SIEM backend or validated against live telemetry here.

title: Successful Account Login Via WMI
id: 5af54681-df95-4c26-854f-2565e13cfab0
status: stable
description: Detects successful logon attempts performed with WMI
references:
    - Internal Research
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2019-12-04
modified: 2024-01-17
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1047
logsource:
    product: windows
    service: security
detection:
    selection:
        EventID: 4624
        ProcessName|endswith: '\WmiPrvSE.exe'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Monitoring tools
    - Legitimate system administration
level: low

Original YAML and metadata in JSON

False positives

  • Monitoring tools
  • Legitimate system administration

Source references

  • Internal Research (source note; no public URL supplied)

Connected ecosystem references

Exact source-tagged techniques

Telemetry review

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Pinned research references. No browser attack runner, live simulation result or validated detector is asserted. Source mappings and validation limits are preserved. ATT&CK / Atomic provenance · Detection provenance.