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Remote Task Creation via ATSVC Named Pipe

Severity
medium
Author
Samir Bousseaden
Source
upstream

Detects remote task creation via at.exe or API interacting with ATSVC namedpipe

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1053.002 Scheduled Task/Job: At
PersistenceT1053.002 Scheduled Task/Job: At
Privilege EscalationT1053.002 Scheduled Task/Job: At

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Security-Auditing5145A network share object was checked to see whether client can be granted desired access.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

AccessList|contains: WriteData
RelativeTargetName: atsvc
ShareName: '\\\\\*\\IPC$'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
AccessListmatch
  • WriteData corpus 4 (sigma 4)
RelativeTargetNameeq
  • atsvc corpus 2 (sigma 2)
ShareNameeq
  • \\\\\*\\IPC$ corpus 6 (sigma 6)

Neighbors

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