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Security Software Discovery via WMI (PowerShell)

Group by
_time, host
Source
github.com/anvilogic-forge/armory

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of security software, configurations, defensive tools, and sensors that are installed on a system or in a cloud environment. This may include things such as firewall rules and anti-virus. Adversaries may use the information from Security Software Discovery during automated discovery to shape follow-on behaviors, including whether or not the adversary fully infects the target and/or attempts specific actions. This use case detects enumeration commands for antivirus software using WMI. Atomics Test T1518.001 Test #6

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

References

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

id: '14971.22212'
title: Security Software Discovery via WMI
description: 'Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of security software, configurations,
  defensive tools, and sensors that are installed on a system or in a cloud environment.
  This may include things such as firewall rules and anti-virus. Adversaries may use
  the information from Security Software Discovery during automated discovery to shape
  follow-on behaviors, including whether or not the adversary fully infects the target
  and/or attempts specific actions. This use case detects enumeration commands for
  antivirus software using WMI. Atomics Test T1518.001 Test #6'
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4103) OR
  "<EventID>4103<" OR TERM(EventCode=4104) OR "<EventID>4104<") TERM(wmic) TERM(AntiVirusProduct)
  | table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process, parent_process_*,
  user| regex process="(?i)\s+AntiVirusProduct\s+" | bin span=1s | stats values(*)
  as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- discovery:software discovery:security software discovery
technique_id:
- T1518.001
data_category:
- PowerShell logs
- Process command-line parameters
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1518.001/T1518.001.md#atomic-test-6---security-software-discovery---av-discovery-via-wmi

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: search

`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4103) OR "<EventID>4103<" OR TERM(EventCode=4104) OR "<EventID>4104<") TERM(wmic) TERM(AntiVirusProduct)

Stage 2: table

| table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process, parent_process_*, user

Stage 3: regex

| regex process="(?i)\s+AntiVirusProduct\s+"

Stage 4: bucket

| bin span=1s

Stage 5: stats

| stats values(*) as * by _time, host

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
EventCodeeq
  • 4103 corpus 105 (splunk 105)
  • 4104 corpus 269 (splunk 269)
field:"EventID" kind:eq
processregex_match
  • "(?i)\s+AntiVirusProduct\s+" corpus 3 (splunk 3)
field:"CommandLine" kind:regex_match

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

StageTerm
1"<EventID>4103<"
1"<EventID>4104<"
1wmic
1AntiVirusProduct