Gather Victim Host Information T1592

Tactic: Reconnaissance

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's hosts that can be used during targeting. Information about hosts may include a variety of details, including administrative data (ex: name, assigned IP, functionality, etc.) as well as specifics regarding its configuration (ex: operating system, language, etc.).

Events covered

4 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.

Authoring guide

These 13 rules share fields, values, and exclusions.

Fields filtered most (10 distinct)

These fields appear most often in rule filters.

FieldRulesHowSample values
EventID5eq 54104
ScriptBlockText5contains 3, in 3select, win32_pnpentity , *camera*, *get-clipboardtext*, *get-wmiobject*
CommandLine4contains 4, ends_with 1 -name .htpasswd, -perm -4000 , /etc/sudoers, /t , .history
Image2ends_with 2/cat, /ed, /egrep, /head, /more
CommadCount1ge 18
OriginalFileName1eq 1dxdiag.exe
aws::errorMessage1contains 1hostpath_mapping
aws::userAgent1starts_with 1aws-cli
command1contains 1suspiciouscommands
process_name1eq 1dxdiag.exe

Top indicator values (54 distinct)

These values appear most often in rule predicates.

FieldKindValueRules (here)Corpus reach
EventIDeq
4104
5269
ScriptBlockTextcontains
select
33
ScriptBlockTextcontains
win32_pnpentity
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
antispywareproduct
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
antivirusproduct
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
pnpclass
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
where
1
ScriptBlockTextcontains
win32_process
1
Imageends_with
/cat
210
Imageends_with
/head
27
Imageends_with
/more
27
Imageends_with
/tail
27
Imageends_with
/ed
13
Imageends_with
/egrep
12
Imageends_with
/emacs
13
Imageends_with
/fgrep
1
Imageends_with
/grep
17
Imageends_with
/less
15
Imageends_with
/nano
14
CommadCountge
8
1
CommandLinecontains
-name .htpasswd
1
CommandLinecontains
-perm -4000
1
CommandLinecontains
/etc/sudoers
1
CommandLinecontains
/t
1
CommandLinecontains
/.bash_history
12
CommandLinecontains
/.zsh_history
12
CommandLineends_with
.history
12
CommandLineends_with
_history
12
CommandLineends_with
zhistory
12
OriginalFileNameeq
dxdiag.exe
1

Rules under this technique

These vendors publish rules tagged with this technique.

Platform (all)
Domain (all)

Sigma 3 rules

Splunk 6 rules

Kusto 4 rules