title: Detected Windows Software Discovery
author: Nikita Nazarov, oscd.community
date: 2020/10/16
description: Adversaries may attempt to enumerate software for a variety of reasons,
  such as figuring out what security measures are present or if the compromised system
  has a version of software that is vulnerable.
detection:
  SELECTION_1:
    EventID: 1
  SELECTION_2:
    Image: '*\reg.exe'
  SELECTION_3:
    CommandLine: '*query*'
  SELECTION_4:
    CommandLine: '*\software\\*'
  SELECTION_5:
    CommandLine: '*/v*'
  SELECTION_6:
    CommandLine: '*svcversion*'
  condition: (SELECTION_1 and SELECTION_2 and SELECTION_3 and SELECTION_4 and SELECTION_5
    and SELECTION_6)
falsepositives:
- Legitimate administration activities
id: e13f668e-7f95-443d-98d2-1816a7648a7b
level: medium
logsource:
  category: process_creation
  product: windows
modified: 2021/09/21
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1518/T1518.md
- https://github.com/harleyQu1nn/AggressorScripts
related:
- id: 2650dd1a-eb2a-412d-ac36-83f06c4f2282
  type: derived
status: experimental
tags:
- attack.discovery
- attack.t1518
ruletype: SIGMA