Sigma rule: WMI Reconnaissance List Remote Services

Rule

Title

WMI Reconnaissance List Remote Services

Status

deprecated

Level

medium

Author

frack113

Date

2022/01/01

Modified

2023/02/14

File

deprecated/windows/proc_creation_win_wmic_remote_service.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

An adversary might use WMI to check if a certain Remote Service is running on a remote device.
When the test completes, a service information will be displayed on the screen if it exists.
A common feedback message is that "No instance(s) Available" if the service queried is not running.
A common error message is "Node - (provided IP or default) ERROR Description =The RPC server is unavailable" if the provided remote host is unreachable

Log source

product

windows

category

process_creation

Detection

selection_img:
    - Image|endswith: '\WMIC.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'wmic.exe'
selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - '/node:'
        - 'service'
condition: all of selection*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Unknown

Tags

• attack.execution
• attack.t1047

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

• T1047

References

• https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1047/T1047.md
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wmic

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/deprecated/windows/proc_creation_win_wmic_remote_service.yml