Creation of Scheduled Task with schtasks.exe

A scheduled task can be used by an adversary to establish persistence, move laterally, and/or escalate privileges.

id:9583c2ff-508d-4ebb-8b89-712b0a4d3186
categories:hunt
confidence:low
os:windows
created:7/26/2019
updated:7/26/2019

MITRE ATT&CK™ Mapping

tactics:Privilege Escalation, Execution, Persistence
techniques:T1053 Scheduled Task

Query

process where subtype.create and
  process_name = "schtasks.exe" and
  command_line = "*create*"

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