BIOC Informational

WMI terminated a process

The Windows Management Instrumentation CLI killed another process running on the endpoint or on a remote host. Malware may do this to evade detection.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Agent event type:
Process execution
Category:
Execution
Status:
Enabled
ATT&CK tactics: Defense Evasion (TA0005) Execution (TA0002)
ATT&CK techniques: Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) Windows Management Instrumentation (T1047)
Indicator:

Process action type = execution AND target process cmd = *process*where*call terminate AND target process name = wmic.exe Process initiated by != msiexec.exe , cgo name != msiexec.exe

Preventable: yes