Scheduled Task Executed From A Suspicious Location
Detects the execution of Scheduled Tasks where the Program being run is located in a suspicious location or it's an unusale program to be run from a Scheduled Task
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1title: Scheduled Task Executed From A Suspicious Location
2id: 424273ea-7cf8-43a6-b712-375f925e481f
3status: test
4description: Detects the execution of Scheduled Tasks where the Program being run is located in a suspicious location or it's an unusale program to be run from a Scheduled Task
5references:
6 - Internal Research
7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
8date: 2022-12-05
9modified: 2023-02-07
10tags:
11 - attack.privilege-escalation
12 - attack.execution
13 - attack.persistence
14 - attack.t1053.005
15logsource:
16 product: windows
17 service: taskscheduler
18 definition: 'Requirements: The "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational" is disabled by default and needs to be enabled in order for this detection to trigger'
19detection:
20 selection:
21 EventID: 129 # Created Task Process
22 Path|contains:
23 - 'C:\Windows\Temp\'
24 - '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
25 - '\Desktop\'
26 - '\Downloads\'
27 - '\Users\Public\'
28 - 'C:\Temp\'
29 # If you experience FP. Uncomment the filter below and add the specific TaskName with the Program to it
30 # filter:
31 # TaskName: '\Exact\Task\Name'
32 # Path: 'Exact\Path'
33 condition: selection
34falsepositives:
35 - Unknown
36level: medium
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