Persistence via Scheduled Job Creation

 1[metadata]
 2creation_date = "2021/03/15"
 3integration = ["endpoint", "windows"]
 4maturity = "production"
 5min_stack_comments = "New fields added: required_fields, related_integrations, setup"
 6min_stack_version = "8.3.0"
 7updated_date = "2023/06/22"
 8
 9[rule]
10author = ["Elastic"]
11description = """
12A job can be used to schedule programs or scripts to be executed at a specified date and time. Adversaries may abuse
13task scheduling functionality to facilitate initial or recurring execution of malicious code.
14"""
15false_positives = ["Legitimate scheduled jobs may be created during installation of new software."]
16from = "now-9m"
17index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*", "endgame-*"]
18language = "eql"
19license = "Elastic License v2"
20name = "Persistence via Scheduled Job Creation"
21note = """## Setup
22
23If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
24"""
25risk_score = 47
26rule_id = "1327384f-00f3-44d5-9a8c-2373ba071e92"
27severity = "medium"
28tags = ["Domain: Endpoint", "OS: Windows", "Use Case: Threat Detection", "Tactic: Persistence", "Data Source: Elastic Endgame", "Data Source: Elastic Defend"]
29timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
30type = "eql"
31
32query = '''
33file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type != "deletion" and
34 file.path : "?:\\Windows\\Tasks\\*" and file.extension : "job"
35'''
36
37
38[[rule.threat]]
39framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
40[[rule.threat.technique]]
41id = "T1053"
42name = "Scheduled Task/Job"
43reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/"
44[[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
45id = "T1053.005"
46name = "Scheduled Task"
47reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/005/"
48
49
50
51[rule.threat.tactic]
52id = "TA0003"
53name = "Persistence"
54reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"