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Scheduled Task/Job At

Detects the use of at/atd which are utilities that are used to schedule tasks. They are often abused by adversaries to maintain persistence or to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code

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T1053.002

Rule sourcerules/linux/process_creation/proc_creation_lnx_at_command.yml

title: Scheduled Task/Job At
id: d2d642d7-b393-43fe-bae4-e81ed5915c4b
status: stable
description: |
  Detects the use of at/atd which are utilities that are used to schedule tasks.
  They are often abused by adversaries to maintain persistence or to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1053.002/T1053.002.md
author: Ömer Günal, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-06
modified: 2022-07-07
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.execution
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.t1053.002
logsource:
    product: linux
    category: process_creation
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith:
            - '/at'
            - '/atd'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate administration activities
level: low