WMI Incoming Lateral Movement

Identifies 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: 3

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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sequence 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.address != "127.0.0.1" and source.address != "::1" and
   source.port >= 49152 and destination.port >= 49152
  ]

  /* Excluding Common FPs Nessus and SCCM */

  [process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") 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&CK^TM

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/

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