🎯 What You'll Learn
- Use WMI for execution and queries
- Build WMI event-based persistence
- Move laterally with WMI
- Detect malicious WMI activity
Overview
WMI is a powerful built-in feature that attackers abuse for execution, lateral movement and persistence. This lab covers both offensive WMI tradecraft and its detection.
Core Topics
- WMI execution
- Event subscriptions
- Remote WMI
- Detection
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.