Analytics BIOC Medium

Remote WMI process execution

A host that rarely initiates WMI to other remote hosts triggered a remote process execution by using WMI RPC.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
XDR Agent
ATT&CK tactics: Lateral Movement (TA0008)
ATT&CK techniques: Remote Services (T1021) Remote Services: Windows Remote Management (T1021.006)
Detector tags: Impacket Analytics
Attacker's goals:

Perform lateral movement to new hosts to expand the foothold within a network.

Investigative actions:

Investigate the processes being spawned on the host for malicious activities. Correlate the RPC call from the source host and understand which process or software initiated it.

Test period:
N/A (single event)
Deduplication:
3 Days
1 variation:
  • Suspicious remote WMI process execution High (parent: Medium)