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    WMI Abuse for Lateral Movement and Persistence

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Danny Y@zendannyy
    •updated Mar 11, 2026•2•0•93

    Detects WMI abuse for lateral movement, remote execution, and persistence. Using native WMI, and one condition for PowerShell plus WMI queries

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    T1546.003 - Windows Management Instrumentation Event SubscriptionT1059.001 - PowerShellTA0008 - Lateral MovementTA0003 - PersistenceDS0005 - WMITA0004 - Privilege EscalationWmi ActivityCommand ExecutionScript ExecutionPowershell Script ExecutionWindowsWindows Eventlog SecurityWindows Eventlog Powershellattack.lateral-movementattack.executionattack.t1047attack.t1546.003

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