Suspicious Scheduled Tasks created during non-working hours on Windows.

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About the rule

Rule Type

Anomaly

Rule Description

Detects unexpected creation of scheduled tasks, often used for persistence.

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Scheduled Task Created" | isanomalous(User at an unusual Time) | isanomalous(User with abnormal Count) | isanomalous(Log source at an unusual Time) | isanomalous(Log source with abnormal Count) | isanomalous(Log source with unusual Username) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.SERVICENAME,Action1.PATH

Detection

Execution Mode

Intelligent

Log Sources

Windows