Command and Scripting Interpreter: Hypervisor CLI T1059.012
Tactic: Execution
Adversaries may abuse hypervisor command line interpreters (CLIs) to execute malicious commands. Hypervisor CLIs typically enable a wide variety of functionality for managing both the hypervisor itself and the guest virtual machines it hosts.
Events covered
1 catalog event is tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon-for-Linux | Event ID 1 | Process Create |
Authoring guide
Patterns shared across the 9 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. The catalog normalizes field names across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.
Fields filtered most (2 distinct)
The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.
Top indicator values (18 distinct)
Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique. Click a value to expand the rules under this technique that use it.
Rules under this technique
Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.
Sigma 9 rules
- ESXi Account Creation Via ESXCLI
- ESXi Admin Permission Assigned To Account Via ESXCLI
- ESXi Network Configuration Discovery Via ESXCLI
- ESXi Storage Information Discovery Via ESXCLI
- ESXi Syslog Configuration Change Via ESXCLI
- ESXi System Information Discovery Via ESXCLI
- ESXi VM Kill Via ESXCLI
- ESXi VM List Discovery Via ESXCLI
- ESXi VSAN Information Discovery Via ESXCLI