An adversary may gather the system time and/or time zone from a local or remote system. The system time is set and stored by the Windows Time Service within a domain to maintain time synchronization between systems and services in an enterprise network. (Citation: MSDN System Time) (Citation: Technet Windows Time Service)System time information may be gathered in a number of ways, such as with Net on Windows by performing
net time \hostname
to gather the system time on a remote system. The victim's time zone may also be inferred from the current system time or gathered by usingw32tm /tz
. (Citation: Technet Windows Time Service) The information could be useful for performing other techniques, such as executing a file with a Scheduled Task/Job (Citation: RSA EU12 They're Inside), or to discover locality information based on time zone to assist in victim targeting.
Identify the system time. Upon execution, the local computer system time and timezone will be displayed.
Supported Platforms: Windows
Name | Description | Type | Default Value |
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computer_name | computer name to query | string | localhost |
net time \\#{computer_name}
w32tm /tz
Identify the system time via PowerShell. Upon execution, the system time will be displayed.
Supported Platforms: Windows
Get-Date