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Persistence via TelemetryController Scheduled Task Hijack

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Persistence via TelemetryController Scheduled Task Hijack

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Detects the successful hijack of Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser scheduled task to establish persistence with an integrity level of system.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

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

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5 minutes

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
  • Persistence

Version: 7 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.2.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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## Config

If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.

Rule query

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process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
process.parent.name : "CompatTelRunner.exe" and process.args : "-cv*"
and not process.name : ("conhost.exe",
"DeviceCensus.exe", "CompatTelRunner.exe",
"DismHost.exe", "rundll32.exe",
"powershell.exe")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 7 (8.2.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 6 (7.16.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 5 (7.13.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.parent.name:(CompatTelRunner.exe or compattelrunner.exe) and
process.args:-cv* and not process.name:(conhost.exe or
DeviceCensus.exe or devicecensus.exe or CompatTelRunner.exe or
compattelrunner.exe or DismHost.exe or dismhost.exe or rundll32.exe or
powershell.exe)
Version 4 (7.12.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 2 (7.11.0 release)

  • Updated query, changed from:

    event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and
process.parent.name:(CompatTelRunner.exe or compattelrunner.exe) and
not process.name:(conhost.exe or DeviceCensus.exe or devicecensus.exe
or CompatTelRunner.exe or compattelrunner.exe or DismHost.exe or
dismhost.exe or rundll32.exe)
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