Suspicious Tasklist Discovery Command

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may attempt to get information about running processes on a system. Information obtained could be used to gain an understanding of common software/applications running on systems within the network

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND COMMANDLINE contains "tasklist" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "\tasklist.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "tasklist.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113