Identifier / Programs / Windows

wt.exe

LOLBAS Execute 3 Sigma rules name it 1 ATT&CK technique 1 documented command

How wt.exe is abused

documented by LOLBAS

Execute T1202 Indirect Command Execution

Each abuse is LOLBAS's category and the options and words it uses; the full write-up is on LOLBAS's page for wt.exe.

1 documented command

from LOLBAS, each read by the identifier

Execute T1202 Indirect Command Execution User privileges

Execute a command via Windows Terminal.

wt.exe {CMD}

Identify

The command the identifier reads trips no Sigma process-creation rule. These commands and their descriptions are from LOLBAS’s entry for wt.exe, by Nasreddine Bencherchali, at commit 2056cb766250 of 2026-09-26, under the GPL-3.0 and LOLBAS’s notice, with no warranty. Changed: Markdown is shown formatted. The source is in lolbas-gtfobins-commands.json.gz, and the full entry is on LOLBAS’s page for wt.exe. The identifier reads it with LOLBAS’s placeholders filled in: a URL as https://example.com/file, a share as \\192.0.2.10\share\file, a path as C:\Data\file and a command as calc.exe.

What detects it

Sigma process creation rules

criticalSticky Key Like Backdoor ExecutionFlorian Roth (Nextron Systems), @twjackomo, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community

criticalSuspicious Child Process Of Veeam DabataseNasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

highWindows Suspicious Child Process from Node.js - React2ShellSwachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali

T1202Indirect Command Execution

wt.exe

How wt.exe is abused

1 documented command

What detects it

Other programs abused for Execute