Suspicious Scheduled Task Creation Involving Temp Folder

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the creation of scheduled tasks that involves a temporary folder and runs only once

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\schtasks.exe" AND (COMMANDLINE contains " /create " AND COMMANDLINE contains " /sc once " AND COMMANDLINE contains "\Temp") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)