Discovery of a System Time
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Identifies use of various commands to query a systems time. This technique may be used before executing a scheduled task or to discover the time zone of a target system.
Severity
Attention
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME endswith "\net.exe,\net1.exe" AND COMMANDLINE contains "time") OR (PROCESSNAME endswith "\w32tm.exe" AND COMMANDLINE contains "tz") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community


