Scheduled Task Executed From A Suspicious Location

 Original Source: [Sigma source]
Title: Scheduled Task Executed From A Suspicious Location
Status: test
Description: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
References:
  -Internal Research
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Date: 2022-12-05
modified:2023-02-07
Tags:
  • -'attack.privilege-escalation'
  • -'attack.execution'
  • -'attack.persistence'
  • -'attack.t1053.005'
Logsource:
  • product: windows
  • service: taskscheduler
  • definition: Requirements: The "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational" is disabled by default and needs to be enabled in order for this detection to trigger
Detection:
  selection:
    EventID: '129'
    Path|contains:
      -'C:\Windows\Temp\'
      -'\AppData\Local\Temp\'
      -'\Desktop\'
      -'\Downloads\'
      -'\Users\Public\'
      -'C:\Temp\'

  condition:selection
Falsepositives:
  -Unknown
Level: medium