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

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows