Interactive AT Job

Detect an interactive AT job, which may be used as a form of privilege escalation.

id:d8db43cf-ed52-4f5c-9fb3-c9a4b95a0b56
categories:detect
confidence:medium
os:windows
created:11/30/2018
updated:11/30/2018

MITRE ATT&CK™ Mapping

tactics:Privilege Escalation
techniques:T1053 Scheduled Task

Note

As of Windows 8, the at.exe command was deprecated and prints the error message
The AT command has been deprecated. Please use schtasks.exe instead.

Query

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

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