Potential Recon Activity Using DriverQuery.EXE
Detect usage of the "driverquery" utility to perform reconnaissance on installed drivers
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Log source product
- windows
- Log source category
- process_creation
Known benign triggers
- Legitimate usage by some scripts might trigger this as well
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
Not mapped to ATT&CK.
References
| Reference | Cited by |
|---|---|
| thedfirreport.com/2023/01/09/unwrapping-ursnifs-gifts/ | 2 |
| www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/01/saigon-mysterious-ursnif-fork.html | 2 |
| www.vmray.com/cyber-security-blog/analyzing-ursnif-behavior-malware-sandbox/ | 2 |
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 9fc3072c-dc8f-4bf7-b231-18950000fadd
- Tagged by the source as
- attack.discovery
Licence
- Published under
- Detection Rule License 1.1Read the licence
- Attribution
- Required
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 26, 2026
- Version
- 1