Schtasks used for forcing a reboot
Description
This search looks for flags passed to schtasks.exe on the command-line that indicate that a forced reboot of system is scheduled.
- Type: TTP
- Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Datamodel: Endpoint- Datasource: Splunk Add-on for Sysmon
- Last Updated: 2020-12-07
- Author: Bhavin Patel, Splunk
- ID: 1297fb80-f42a-4b4a-9c8a-88c066437cf6
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ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
- Actions on Objectives
NIST
- PR.IP
CIS20
- CIS 3
CVE
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` values(Processes.process) as process min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.process_name=schtasks.exe Processes.process="*shutdown*" Processes.process="*/create *" by Processes.process_name Processes.parent_process_name Processes.dest Processes.user
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)`
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `schtasks_used_for_forcing_a_reboot_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
Note that schtasks_used_for_forcing_a_reboot_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Required field
- _time
- Processes.process
- Processes.process_name
- Processes.parent_process_name
- Processes.dest
- Processes.user
How To Implement
To successfully implement this search you need to be ingesting information on process that include the name of the process responsible for the changes from your endpoints into the Endpoint
datamodel in the Processes
node. In addition, confirm the latest CIM App 4.20 or higher is installed and the latest TA for the endpoint product.
Known False Positives
Administrators may create jobs on systems forcing reboots to perform updates, maintenance, etc.
Associated Analytic story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
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56.0 | 70 | 80 | A schedule task process $process_name$ with force reboot commandline $process$ in host $dest$ |
Reference
Test Dataset
Replay any dataset to Splunk Enterprise by using our replay.py tool or the UI. Alternatively you can replay a dataset into a Splunk Attack Range
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