Local Scheduled Task Commands

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Local Scheduled Task Commands

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A scheduled task can be used by an adversary to establish persistence, move laterally, and/or escalate privileges.

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

Elastic
Windows

Rule version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Potential false positives

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Legitimate scheduled tasks may be created during installation of new software.

Rule query

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event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and
process.name:schtasks.exe and process.args:("/create" or "-create" or
"/S" or "-s" or "/run" or "-run" or "/change" or "-change")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Scheduled Task
- ID: T1053
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/

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