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Windows WMIC System Information Discovery via WMIC.EXE Recon

Flags WMIC.EXE executions running system info queries for OS and disk details.

FreeReviewedSigma · Medium · v1
Product
windows
Category
process_creation
Author
TropChaud (SigmaHQ), DRL 1.1
Published
2023-01-26
Updated
2026-07-30
AnalysisDetection

ATT&CK techniques

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 executions of the WMIC command-line utility (wmic.exe) where specific system discovery queries are issued. The matched commands enumerate operating system details, disk drive names and capacity, and other system attributes, which can support reconnaissance and environment profiling. Telemetry relies on Windows process creation fields including the original executable metadata and command-line contents.

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.