name: System Information Discovery Detection
id: 8e99f89e-ae58-4ebc-bf52-ae0b1a277e72
version: 2
date: '2021-09-07'
author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
status: production
type: TTP
description: Detect system information discovery techniques used by attackers to understand
  configurations of the system to further exploit it.
data_source:
- Sysmon Event ID 1
search:
  selection1:
    CommandLine:
    - '*wmic* qfe*'
    - '*systeminfo*'
    - '*hostname*'
  condition: (selection1)
how_to_implement: To successfully implement this search you need to be ingesting information
  on process that include the name of the process responsible for the changes from
  your endpoints into the `Endpoint` datamodel in the `Processes` node.
known_false_positives: Administrators debugging servers
references:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210119205146/https://oscp.infosecsanyam.in/priv-escalation/windows-priv-escalation
tags:
  analytic_story:
  - Discovery Techniques
  asset_type: Windows
  confidence: 50
  impact: 30
  message: Potential system information discovery behavior on $dest$ by $User$
  mitre_attack_id:
  - T1082
  observable:
  - name: dest
    type: Endpoint
    role:
    - Victim
  - name: User
    type: User
    role:
    - Attacker
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  risk_score: 15
  security_domain: endpoint
tests:
- name: True Positive Test
  attack_data:
  - data: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1082/atomic_red_team/windows-sysmon.log
    source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational
    sourcetype: xmlwineventlog