HighSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Suspicious Reconnaissance Activity Via GatherNetworkInfo.VBS

Detects execution of the built-in script located in "C:\Windows\System32\gatherNetworkInfo.vbs". Which can be used to gather information about the target machine

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Detection requirements

Platform: Linux macOS Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Unknown

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
posts.slayerlabs.com/living-off-the-land/#gathernetworkinfovbs	Unclassified	3
www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/trojanized-windows-installers-ukrainian-government	Threat report	3

Detection rules

Suspicious Reconnaissance Activity Via GatherNetworkInfo.VBS

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

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