Enumeration Command Spawned via WMIPrvSEedit

Identifies native Windows host and network enumeration commands spawned by the Windows Management Instrumentation Provider Service (WMIPrvSE).

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • logs-windows.*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

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
  • Execution

Version: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guideedit

## Config

If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.

Rule queryedit

process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
  process.name:
  (
    "arp.exe",
    "dsquery.exe",
    "dsget.exe",
    "gpresult.exe",
    "hostname.exe",
    "ipconfig.exe",
    "nbtstat.exe",
    "net.exe",
    "net1.exe",
    "netsh.exe",
    "netstat.exe",
    "nltest.exe",
    "ping.exe",
    "qprocess.exe",
    "quser.exe",
    "qwinsta.exe",
    "reg.exe",
    "sc.exe",
    "systeminfo.exe",
    "tasklist.exe",
    "tracert.exe",
    "whoami.exe"
  ) and
  process.parent.name:"wmiprvse.exe"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM