Firewall Configuration Discovery Via Netsh.EXE

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may look for details about the network configuration and settings of systems they access or through information discovery of remote systems

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\netsh.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "netsh.exe") AND ((COMMANDLINE contains "netsh " AND COMMANDLINE contains "show " AND COMMANDLINE contains "firewall ") AND COMMANDLINE contains "config ,state ,rule ,name=all") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113, Christopher Peacock '@securepeacock', SCYTHE '@scythe_io'