Excessive Usage Of Taskkill
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects repeated and excessive attempts to use the taskkill command to terminate processes on a system within a defined time frame
Severity
Critical
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1:
actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "taskkill.exe")
| timewindow 1m
| having COUNT >= 50
select Action1.timewindow.HOSTNAME,Action1.timewindow.MESSAGE,Action1.timewindow.COMMANDLINE,Action1.timewindow.FILE_NAME,Action1.timewindow.PROCESSNAME,Action1.timewindow.USERNAME,Action1.timewindow.PARENTPROCESSNAME,Action1.timewindow.DOMAIN,Action1.timewindow.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.timewindow.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.timewindow.PROCESSID,Action1.timewindow.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.timewindow.SECURITYID
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
