Suspicious WMI Event Subscription Created

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Detects the creation of a WMI Event Subscription. Attackers can abuse this mechanism for persistence or to elevate to SYSTEM privileges.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • 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

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Tags:

  • Domain: Endpoint
  • OS: Windows
  • Use Case: Threat Detection
  • Tactic: Persistence
  • Data Source: Sysmon Only

Version: 105

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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any where event.dataset == "windows.sysmon_operational" and event.code == "21" and
    winlog.event_data.Operation : "Created" and winlog.event_data.Consumer : ("*subscription:CommandLineEventConsumer*", "*subscription:ActiveScriptEventConsumer*")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM