Analytics BIOC Informational

An uncommon lolbin execution by scheduled task

A lolbin was executed with uncommon commandline by a scheduled task.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
XDR Agent
ATT&CK tactics: Persistence (TA0003)
ATT&CK techniques: Scheduled Task/Job (T1053)
Detector tags: Scheduled tasks Analytics
Attacker's goals:

Attackers may attempt to gain persistence, privilege escalation or proxy execution on the endpoint using scheduled tasks.

Investigative actions:

Review the lolbin's command line executed by the schedule task. Investigate the specific scheduled task execution chain. Investigate how the scheduled task was created and the actor who created it.

Test period:
N/A (single event)
Deduplication:
1 Day
2 variations:
  • An uncommon lolbin execution by scheduled task on a sensitive server Informational
  • A rare and commonly-abused lolbin execution by scheduled task Informational