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Potential WMI Lateral Movement WmiPrvSE Spawned PowerShell — Sigma Rule
Sigma rule 692f0bec-83ba-4d04-af7e-e884a96059b6. Potential WMI Lateral Movement WmiPrvSE Spawned PowerShell — Sigma Rule. Detects Powershell as a child of the WmiPrvSE process. Which could be a sign of lateral movement via WMI.
Rule metadata and linked tags
Author: Markus Neis @Karneades. Source status: stable; severity: medium. Source dates: 2019-04-03 / 2023-03-29.
{
"category": "process_creation",
"product": "windows"
}Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1
Source SHA-256: 03b197a9213815c30ca191879b4665434edaef354a72551063f7aaffad0f991d
Detection logic
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title: Potential WMI Lateral Movement WmiPrvSE Spawned PowerShell
id: 692f0bec-83ba-4d04-af7e-e884a96059b6
related:
- id: 8a582fe2-0882-4b89-a82a-da6b2dc32937
type: similar
- id: d21374ff-f574-44a7-9998-4a8c8bf33d7d
type: similar
status: stable
description: Detects Powershell as a child of the WmiPrvSE process. Which could be a sign of lateral movement via WMI.
references:
- https://any.run/report/68bc255f9b0db6a0d30a8f2dadfbee3256acfe12497bf93943bc1eab0735e45e/a2385d6f-34f7-403c-90d3-b1f9d2a90a5e
author: Markus Neis @Karneades
date: 2019-04-03
modified: 2023-03-29
tags:
- attack.execution
- attack.t1047
- attack.t1059.001
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection_parent:
ParentImage|endswith: '\WmiPrvSE.exe'
selection_img:
- Image|endswith:
- '\powershell.exe'
- '\pwsh.exe'
- OriginalFileName:
- 'PowerShell.EXE'
- 'pwsh.dll'
condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
- AppvClient
- CCM
- WinRM
level: medium
False positives
- AppvClient
- CCM
- WinRM
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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.