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WMI Incoming Lateral Movement
editWMI Incoming Lateral Movement
editIdentifies processes executed via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on a remote host. This could be indicative of adversary lateral movement, but could be noisy if administrators use WMI to remotely manage hosts.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References: None
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Lateral Movement
Version: 102
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editsequence by host.id with maxspan = 2s
/* Accepted Incoming RPC connection by Winmgmt service */
[network where process.name : "svchost.exe" and network.direction : ("incoming", "ingress") and
source.ip != "127.0.0.1" and source.ip != "::1" and source.port >= 49152 and destination.port >= 49152
]
/* Excluding Common FPs Nessus and SCCM */
[process where event.type == "start" and process.parent.name : "WmiPrvSE.exe" and
not process.args : ("C:\\windows\\temp\\nessus_*.txt",
"C:\\windows\\TEMP\\nessus_*.TMP",
"C:\\Windows\\CCM\\SystemTemp\\*",
"C:\\Windows\\CCMCache\\*",
"C:\\CCM\\Cache\\*")
]
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
-
Tactic:
- Name: Lateral Movement
- ID: TA0008
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0008/
-
Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
-
Technique:
- Name: Windows Management Instrumentation
- ID: T1047
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1047/