Most Popular Detection 2026: WMI-Based Lateral Movement Execution
Detects lateral movement techniques leveraging Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). The rule identifies instances where the WMI provider host, WmiPrvSE.exe, spawns common administrative or interactive shell tools (e.g., cmd.exe, powershell.exe). This pattern is consistent with the abuse of Win32_Process.Create() via WMI/DCOM/RPC for remote command execution, a method frequently utilized by frameworks like Impacket (wmiexec.py) for fileless, agentless lateral movement.
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