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At this point go back and see if this fixes the problem. It might take a couple of minutes for the reports to re-generate.
For reading WMI data on a remote server, a connection needs to be made from your management computer where our monitoring software is installed to the server that you're monitoring the target server. This can only be done at the command prompt. Run the following on the target computer if it is running a Windows firewall:. If the account you are using to monitor the target server is NOT an administrator on the target server, you need to enable the non-administrator to interact with DCOM by following the simple steps listed here.
Once the WMI browser can access a remote machine, our products should be able to as well. With UAC running, an administrator account actually has two security tokens, a normal user token, and an administrator token which is only activated when you pass the UAC prompt. Unfortunately, remote requests that come in over the network get the normal user token for the administrator, and since there is no way to handle a UAC prompt remotely, the token can't be elevated to the true-administrator security token.
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Well played, wmiexec! While I thought I was being clever in my own WMI experiments, it turns out the pen tester community has been there and done that! You query this underlying Windows object to find users who are currently logged on. Got that? The next question is how to code the script block. The mythical insider in my scenario is interested in a specific user, Cruella. You can gaze upon the complete solution below:. Keep in mind that our insider is laying low.
You can make your lateral move when you get the notification from Register-WmiEvent. How does the script then return this interesting news that Cruella has logged on to the targeted machine? Those of you who spotted the use of Netcat commands above get extra credit. Netcat is a well-known and versatile communications tool — not necessarily considered malware — that pops reverse shells , or can simply send a message across the network. I went with the latter option.
Mission accomplished. In this scenario, I wanted to remotely launch using wmiexec a payload that would alert when a particular user, Cruella, logs into the system. And then I could dump and crack her credentials. Anyway, this would be the stealthiest way to pull this off —both remote and fileless. The only problem, I thought at first, was the temporary nature of the WMI event.
So I needed to encase my obscenely long Register-WMIEvent below into a PowerShell command line with the —noexit option, ensuring that the PowerShell stayed around after the Register-Event runs, and thereby preserving the event. More headaches: I eventually had to abandon using pipes because it seemed to cause parsing errors. I eventually came up with this long, long one-liner :. It looked promising and it seemed to execute correctly based on looking at the Windows Event log on the target system.
WMI permanent events, though somewhat complicated, is a more effective way for insiders to conduct surveillance on their coworkers rather than using temporary events, and is a much better way to monitor for insider threats. Permanent events, though they take a little longer to learn how to use, are the most effective way of implementing a rigorous monitoring system for large systems. They extend the capabilities that are available through WMI temporary events, and can also be used to alert you to more exotic forms of malicious behavior: for example, DNS tunneling or attempts to subvert your Zero Trust policies.
I spent an afternoon or three looking into permanent events and discovered that PowerShell has a special cmdlet that streamlines the process of creating the event filter, consumer, and filter-consumer WMI objects.
As we all know, PowerShell gives admin awesome powers to make things easier. Unfortunately, this an example of where these powers can be used by the bad guys. The insider creates a permanent event on the target system thereby relieving him of having to hang around in a shell session — the event stays forever or until its explicitly removed.
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