Tasks Folder Evasion
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
The Tasks folder in system32 and syswow64 are globally writable paths. Adversaries can take advantage of this and load or influence any script hosts or ANY .NET Application in Tasks to load and execute a custom assembly into cscript, wscript, regsvr32, mshta, eventvwr
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND COMMANDLINE contains "echo ,copy ,type ,file createnew" AND COMMANDLINE contains " C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\, C:\Windows\SysWow64\Tasks" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Sreeman
