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# Abusable command-line activity by untrusted causality actor
### Synopsis
| Field | Value |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Activation Period | 14 Days |
| Training Period | 30 Days |
| Test Period | N/A (single event) |
| Deduplication Period | 1 Day |
| Required Data | XDR Agent |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Informational |
### Description
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
### Attacker's Goals
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
### Investigative actions
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
### Variations
Password policy discovery via net accounts
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Password Policy Discovery (T1201) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
SMB session enumeration via net session
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Network Connections Discovery (T1049) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Server configuration discovery via net config
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Network share enumeration via net share
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Network Share Discovery (T1135) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Local account discovery via net user
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Local account discovery via net users
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Account Discovery: Local Account (T1087.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Local group enumeration via net localgroup
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Permission Groups Discovery: Local Groups (T1069.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Domain group enumeration via net group
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Permission Groups Discovery: Domain Groups (T1069.002) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Service stop via net stop
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Impact (TA0040) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Service Stop (T1489) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Remote Desktop session enumeration via qwinsta
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Owner/User Discovery (T1033) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Full network configuration dump via ipconfig /all
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Network Configuration Discovery (T1016) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Network configuration discovery via ipconfig
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Network Configuration Discovery (T1016) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Verbose process listing via tasklist /v
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Process Discovery (T1057) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Legacy firewall state query via netsh
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery (T1518.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Firewall rule manipulation via netsh advfirewall
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Defense Impairment (TA0112) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Disable or Modify System Firewall (T1686) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
System event log enumeration via Get-EventLog
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Log Enumeration (T1654) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Installed hotfix enumeration via Get-HotFix
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
LSA registry key reconnaissance via Get-ItemProperty
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Query Registry (T1012) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
File permission modification via icacls
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Defense Impairment (TA0112) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), File and Directory Permissions Modification: Windows Permissions (T1222.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Masquerading binary execution from Temp directory
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Masquerading: Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location (T1036.005) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Kerberoasting attack via Invoke-Kerberoast
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Credential Access (TA0006) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: Kerberoasting (T1558.003) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Credential dumping via Invoke-Mimikatz
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Credential Access (TA0006) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory (T1003.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Reflective PE injection via PowerShell
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Reflective Code Loading (T1620) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Process hollowing via Start-Hollow
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Process Injection: Process Hollowing (T1055.012) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Domain fronting probe via Invoke-WebRequest
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Command and Control (TA0011) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001), Proxy: Domain Fronting (T1090.004) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Scheduled task enumeration via Get-ScheduledTask
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Execution (TA0002) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Firewall profile discovery via Get-NetFirewallProfile
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery (T1518.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Windows Defender status query via Get-MpComputerStatus
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery (T1518.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Device Guard status query via Get-CimInstance
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery (T1518.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
BitLocker encryption status query via Get-BitLockerVolume
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery (T1518) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Windows Update history retrieval via Get-WindowsUpdateLog
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
System information discovery via Get-ComputerInfo
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Security provider enumeration via Get-SecurityPackages
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery (T1518.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Secure Boot configuration query via Get-SecureBootPolicy
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Information Discovery (T1082) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Security event log enumeration via Get-EventLog
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Log Enumeration (T1654) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
PowerShell stealth execution with hidden/bypass flags
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005), Execution (TA0002) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003), Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell (T1059.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Windows service configuration modification via sc config
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Persistence (TA0003) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service (T1543.003) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Registry modification via regini
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Defense Impairment (TA0112) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Modify Registry (T1112) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Current user identity discovery via whoami
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Owner/User Discovery (T1033) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Routing table discovery via route print
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Network Configuration Discovery (T1016) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Registry credential search via reg query
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Credential Access (TA0006) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Unsecured Credentials: Credentials in Registry (T1552.002) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
SAM registry hive dump via reg save
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Credential Access (TA0006) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), OS Credential Dumping: Security Account Manager (T1003.002) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
LSASS memory dump via rundll32 comsvcs.dll
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Credential Access (TA0006) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory (T1003.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Audit policy clearing via auditpol /clear
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Defense Impairment (TA0112) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Disable or Modify Tools: Disable or Modify Windows Event Log (T1685.001) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
CMSTP proxy execution
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Binary Proxy Execution: CMSTP (T1218.003) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Signed binary proxy execution via regsvr32
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Binary Proxy Execution: Regsvr32 (T1218.010) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
DLL injection via mavinject
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), System Binary Proxy Execution: Mavinject (T1218.013) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
BITS job execution via bitsadmin
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Persistence (TA0003), Stealth (TA0005) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), BITS Jobs (T1197) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Scheduled task management via schtasks
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Persistence (TA0003), Execution (TA0002) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task (T1053.005) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
Windows Defender signature removal via MpCmdRun
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Defense Impairment (TA0112) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Disable or Modify Tools (T1685) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
WMI command-line discovery via wmic
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007), Execution (TA0002) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Windows Management Instrumentation (T1047) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
DNS zone enumeration via dnscmd
**Synopsis**
| Field | Value |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ATT\&CK Tactic | Discovery (TA0007) |
| ATT\&CK Technique | System Information Discovery (T1082), Remote System Discovery (T1018) |
| Severity | Low |
**Description**
Abusable command-line activity was detected on this host. The observed command pattern is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques.
**Attacker's Goals**
The command pattern observed is consistent with reconnaissance, defense evasion, or persistence techniques an adversary would perform.
**Investigative actions**
Investigate the causality chain to determine whether this activity is expected. Cross-reference with the originating process and any related alerts on the host.
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