Sigma rule: Firewall Configuration Discovery Via Netsh.EXE

A detection rule from the SigmaHQ repository, shown as its author published it. Dataset version ref-6472da50be15, updated 2025-10-18T00:00:00.000Z.

Rule

Title: Firewall Configuration Discovery Via Netsh.EXE
Status: test
Level: low
Author: frack113, Christopher Peacock '@securepeacock', SCYTHE '@scythe_io'
Date: 2021-12-07
Modified: 2025-10-18
File: rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_netsh_fw_rules_discovery.yml
Commit: ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Adversaries may look for details about the network configuration and settings of systems they access or through information discovery of remote systems

Log source

product: windows
category: process_creation

Detection

selection_img:
    - Image|endswith: '\netsh.exe'
    - OriginalFileName: 'netsh.exe'
selection_cli:
    CommandLine|contains|all:
        - 'netsh'
        - 'show '
        - 'firewall '
    CommandLine|contains:
        - 'config '
        - 'state '
        - 'rule '
        - 'name=all'
condition: all of selection_*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

Administrative activity

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

T1016

References

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

Sources and licences

SigmaHQ
"Firewall Configuration Discovery Via Netsh.EXE" by frack113, Christopher Peacock '@securepeacock', SCYTHE '@scythe_io' (SigmaHQ). Rule: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_netsh_fw_rules_discovery.yml.
Licensed under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/Detection-Rule-License
Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.1

Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "Sigma rule: Firewall Configuration Discovery Via Netsh.EXE",
entity page, dataset version ref-6472da50be15, updated 2025-10-18T00:00:00.000Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/detections/sigma/0e4164da-94bc-450d-a7be-a4b176179f1f (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: SigmaHQ rule 0e4164da-94bc-450d-a7be-a4b176179f1f, commit ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84.

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