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Windows WMI Disk and Volume Discovery via WMIC.exe

Flags WMIC.exe process executions that query Win32 logical disk and volume listing details.

FreeReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
Stephen Lincoln '@slincoln-aiq' (AttackIQ) (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published
2024-02-02
Updated
2026-07-30
AnalysisDetection

ATT&CK techniques

Execution → Discovery

  1. Recon

  2. Resource Dev

  3. Initial Access

  4. Execution

  5. Persistence

  6. Priv Esc

  7. Defense Evasion

  8. Cred Access

  9. Discovery

  10. Lateral Movement

  11. Collection

  12. C2

  13. Exfiltration

  14. Impact

What it detects

This rule identifies process creation events where WMIC.exe is used to query logical disk and volume information. Attackers may use these queries to enumerate local storage capacity and available space to inform staging and privilege or data access decisions. It relies on Windows process creation telemetry, matching WMIC.exe execution and specific command-line terms indicative of disk/volume enumeration.

Reporting behind it

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.