Deletion of Volume Shadow Copies via WMI with PowerShell
A Sigma rule for process creation on Windows, by Tim Rauch, Elastic (idea).
high 1 ATT&CK technique
What it looks for
detection:
selection_delete:
CommandLine|contains:
- '.Delete()'
- 'Remove-WmiObject'
- 'rwmi'
- 'Remove-CimInstance'
- 'rcim'
selection_get:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'Get-WmiObject'
- 'gwmi'
- 'Get-CimInstance'
- 'gcim'
selection_shadowcopy:
CommandLine|contains: 'Win32_ShadowCopy'
condition: all of selection*
The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Tim Rauch, Elastic (idea), under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.
None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.
ATT&CK
T1490Inhibit System Recovery