Detection rules › Sigma

Scheduled Task Executed From A Suspicious Location

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of Scheduled Tasks where the Program being run is located in a suspicious location or it's an unusale program to be run from a Scheduled Task

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1053.005 Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
PersistenceT1053.005 Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
Privilege EscalationT1053.005 Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
TaskScheduler129Task Scheduler launch task "Name" , instance "TaskName" with process ID Path.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Path|contains: 'C:\Temp\'
Path|contains: 'C:\Windows\Temp\'
Path|contains: '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
Path|contains: '\Desktop\'
Path|contains: '\Downloads\'
Path|contains: '\Users\Public\'

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
Pathmatch
  • C:\Temp\
  • C:\Windows\Temp\
  • \AppData\Local\Temp\
  • \Desktop\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Downloads\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \Users\Public\