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Lateral Movement

Date: 2021-11-15 ID: 8b1880b0-3533-45a7-bbce-73f46d4636d4 Author: Mauricio Velazco Environment: attack_range Directory: lateral_movement

Description

Manually using PowerShell to start a process on a remote endpoint abusing WMI and the Invoke-WmiMethod commandlet for lateral movement and remote code execution.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation Execution

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory lateral_movement
Test Date 2021-11-15

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1047/lateral_movement/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Remote Process Instantiation via WMI and PowerShell TTP Endpoint T1047 Active Directory Lateral Movement, Compromised Windows Host
Remote Process Instantiation via WMI and PowerShell Script Block TTP Endpoint T1047 Active Directory Lateral Movement

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1047/lateral_movement/windows-sysmon.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Related Content

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.

Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0