Commands executed by WMI on new hosts - potential Impacket
Query identifies hosts with WMI command runs, absent in last 7 days and filters for Impacket wmiexec arguments. Impacket filters can be adjusted for targeted hunting.
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
- securityeventswindowssecurityevents
- Log source service
- securityevent
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- 9ce755c1-d2e6-4e2f-82d5-7871ec1aef91
- Tagged by the source as
- ExecutionLateralMovement
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1