Suspicious Schtasks Schedule Type With High Privileges
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects scheduled task creations or modification to be run with high privileges on a suspicious schedule type
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\schtasks.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "schtasks.exe") AND COMMANDLINE contains " ONLOGON , ONSTART , ONCE , ONIDLE " AND COMMANDLINE contains "NT AUT, SYSTEM,HIGHEST" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
