MediumSigmaHQ Liran Ravich

Potential Lateral Movement via Windows Remote Shell

Detects a child process spawned by 'winrshost.exe', which suggests remote command execution through Windows Remote Shell (WinRs) and may indicate potential lateral movement activity.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: 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

Legitimate use of WinRM within the organization

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
cardinalops.com/blog/living-off-winrm-abusing-complexity-in-remote-management/	Unclassified	2
www.ired.team/offensive-security/lateral-movement/winrs-for-lateral-movement	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Potential Lateral Movement via Windows Remote Shell

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules