Outbound Scheduled Task Activity via PowerShell

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Outbound Scheduled Task Activity via PowerShell

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Identifies the PowerShell process loading the Task Scheduler COM DLL followed by an outbound RPC network connection within a short time period. This may indicate lateral movement or remote discovery via scheduled tasks.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • logs-windows.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Execution

Version: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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sequence by host.id, process.entity_id with maxspan = 5s
 [library where dll.name : "taskschd.dll" and process.name : ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe")]
 [network where process.name : ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe") and destination.port == 135 and not destination.address in ("127.0.0.1", "::1")]

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM