Scheduled Task/Job At

Title: Scheduled Task/Job At
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