Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription (T1084)

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Technique & Subtechniques

  • Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription

Associated Tactics

  • Persistence

Persistence (TA0003)

The adversary is trying to maintain their foothold. Persistence consists of techniques that adversaries use to keep access to systems across restarts, changed credentials, and other interruptions that could cut off their access. Techniques used for persistence include any access, action, or configuration changes that let them maintain their foothold on systems, such as replacing or hijacking legitimate code or adding startup code.

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Procedure Examples

Description Source(s)
Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) Research Team. (2016, March 28). A Novel WMI Persistence Implementation. Retrieved March 30, 2016. Dell WMI Persistence
Kazanciyan, R. & Hastings, M. (2014). Defcon 22 Presentation. Investigating PowerShell Attacks [slides]. Retrieved November 3, 2014. Kazanciyan 2014
Mandiant. (2015, February 24). M-Trends 2015: A View from the Front Lines. Retrieved May 18, 2016. Mandiant M-Trends 2015
Russinovich, M. (2016, January 4). Autoruns for Windows v13.51. Retrieved June 6, 2016. TechNet Autoruns
French, D. (2018, October 9). Detecting & Removing an Attacker’s WMI Persistence. Retrieved October 11, 2019. Medium Detecting WMI Persistence