• CommunityEnterprisePlans
  • Intel Exchange
    Intel ExchangeDetections
  • Resources
  • About
  • Leaderboard
Join CommunitySign In
    All Detections

    IIS Worker Process spawning Discovery Utilities

    avatar
    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/)
    F S@Fsdr
    •updated 13 days ago•1•0•11

    Detects when the IIS worker process (w3wp.exe) spawns common system and network discovery utilities such as whoami, ipconfig, systeminfo, net, and others, which may indicate web shell activity or post-exploitation discovery.

    Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)

    Tags

    T1033 - System Owner/User DiscoveryT1087 - Account DiscoveryT1049 - System Network Connections DiscoveryT1016 - System Network Configuration DiscoveryT1135 - Network Share DiscoveryTA0007 - DiscoveryProcess CreationCommand ExecutionWindowsWindows Defender Atpkql

    Community Inspired.
    AI Enhanced.
    Better Detections.

    Follow Us

    Company

    • About
    • Leaderboard

    Product

    • Community
    • Enterprise
    • Plans

    © 2026 Copyright. All Rights Reserved.

    Privacy PolicyTerms of Service

    Sign up to view this detection

    or

    Already have an account?