MediumSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Group Membership Reconnaissance Via Whoami.EXE

Detects the execution of whoami.exe with the /group command line flag to show group membership for the current user, account type, security identifiers (SID), and attributes.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

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

Known benign triggers

Unknown

References

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Reference	Class	Cited by
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/whoami	Product documentation	2

Detection rules

Group Membership Reconnaissance Via Whoami.EXE

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules