Suspicious Host Reconnaissance Command Chain via cmd

ATT&CK techniques

Execution → Discovery

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
Execution
- T1059.003Windows Command Shell
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
- T1033System Owner/User Discovery
- T1082System Information Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects a single command shell invocation chaining whoami, tasklist, systeminfo and netstat reconnaissance commands. The Notepad++ supply chain attack ran this exact recon chain and redirected the results to a file as reported by Kaspersky. Bundling these discovery commands in one shell line is a strong automated reconnaissance indicator.

Reporting behind it

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