Suspicious Non PowerShell WSMAN COM Provider
Detects suspicious use of the WSMAN provider without PowerShell.exe as the host application.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source service
- powershell_classic
Known benign triggers
- Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| bohops.com/2020/05/12/ws-management-com-another-approach-for-winrm-lateral-movement/ | 2 |
| github.com/bohops/WSMan-WinRM | 2 |
| twitter.com/chadtilbury/status/1275851297770610688 | 2 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- df9a0e0e-fedb-4d6c-8668-d765dfc92aa7
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.executionattack.lateral-movement
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1