Winevent Scheduled Task With Suspect Name

Description

A sample event with a known malicous Task Name.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

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

Environment Details

Field Value
Environment attack_range
Directory winevent_scheduled_task_with_suspect_name
Test Date 2025-01-28

Datasets

The following datasets were collected during this attack simulation:

Windows-Xml

  • Path: /datasets/attack_techniques/T1053.005/winevent_scheduled_task_with_suspect_name/windows-xml.log
  • Sourcetype: XmlWinEventLog
  • Source: XmlWinEventLog:Security

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

Detection Name Type Source MITRE ATT&CK Analytic Story
Windows Scheduled Task with Suspicious Name TTP Endpoint T1053.005 Scheduled Tasks, Windows Persistence Techniques, Ransomware, Ryuk Ransomware, 0bj3ctivity Stealer, APT37 Rustonotto and FadeStealer

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/winevent_scheduled_task_with_suspect_name/windows-xml.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

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


Source: GitHub | Version: 1.0