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Taskschedule

Date: 2022-04-18 ID: cc9b2660-efc9-11eb-926b-550bf0943fbb Author: Michael Haag, Splunk Environment: attack_range Directory: taskschedule

Description

Manual generation of schtask registering a binary to run from non-standard path.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

ID Technique Tactic
T1053.005 Scheduled Task Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory taskschedule
Test Date 2022-04-18

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Sd_delete_windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1053.005/taskschedule/sd_delete_windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

Windows-Sysmon

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1053.005/taskschedule/windows-sysmon.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

The following detections in our security content repository use this attack data for testing:

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Windows Registry Delete Task SD Anomaly Endpoint T1053.005, T1562 Windows Registry Abuse, Windows Persistence Techniques, Scheduled Tasks

Usage Instructions

Replay with Splunk Attack Data

Replay attack data with replay.py from Splunk Attack Data.

1python replay.py --dataset /datasets/attack_techniques/T1053.005/taskschedule/sd_delete_windows-sysmon.log --index attack_data

Manual Import

  1. Download the dataset files from the paths listed above
  2. Configure your Splunk instance with the appropriate sourcetypes
  3. Import the logs using the Splunk Add Data wizard

Related Content

Find more detections and analytics for this attack technique in our security content repository.

Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0