wmi_script_event_consumers

WMI ActiveScriptEventConsumer, which can be used for persistance on Windows. See https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Graeber-Abusing-Windows-Management-Instrumentation-WMI-To-Build-A-Persistent%20Asynchronous-And-Fileless-Backdoor-wp.pdf for more details.

Platform support

Please be aware that some queries can only be run against certain platforms. Below is a list of the supported platforms that this query supports. Zercurity will automatically pause queries from running if errors are detected. Running a query against an unsupported platform will result in the following error: no such table: wmi_script_event_consumers

  • Windows

Table schema

Name Type Description
name TEXT Unique identifier for the event consumer.
scripting_engine TEXT Name of the scripting engine to use, for example, ‘VBScript’. This property cannot be NULL.
script_file_name TEXT Name of the file from which the script text is read, intended as an alternative to specifying the text of the script in the ScriptText property.
script_text TEXT Text of the script that is expressed in a language known to the scripting engine. This property must be NULL if the ScriptFileName property is not NULL.
class TEXT The name of the class.
relative_path TEXT Relative path to the class or instance.

Query examples

select filter,consumer,query,scripting_engine,script_file_name,script_text,wsec.name from wmi_script_event_consumers wsec left outer join wmi_filter_consumer_binding wcb on consumer = wsec.relative_path left outer join wmi_event_filters wef on wef.relative_path = wcb.filter;