System Information Discovery Via Wmic.EXE
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects the use of the WMI command-line (WMIC) utility to identify and display various system information, including OS, CPU, GPU, disk drive names, memory capacity, display resolution, baseboard, BIOS, and GPU driver products/versions.
Severity
Attention
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((MESSAGE = "WMI Commandline Utility" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "wmic.exe" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "\WMIC.exe") AND COMMANDLINE contains "get" AND COMMANDLINE contains "baseboard,bios,cpu,diskdrive,logicaldisk,memphysical,os,path,startup,win32_videocontroller" AND COMMANDLINE contains "caption,command,driverversion,maxcapacity,name,osarchitecture,product,size,smbiosbiosversion,version,videomodedescription") AND PARENTPROCESSCOMMANDLINE notcontains "\VMware\VMware Tools\serviceDiscovery\scripts" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Joseliyo Sanchez, @Joseliyo_Jstnk
