Elastic Security Detection Rules

Scheduled Task Execution at Scale via GPO

Last updated 9 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created 4 years ago on 2021-11-08

About

Detects the modification of Group Policy Object attributes to execute a scheduled task in the objects controlled by the GPO.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Privilege EscalationTactic: Lateral MovementData Source: Active DirectoryUse Case: Active Directory MonitoringData Source: Windows Security Event LogsLanguage: eql
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Privilege Escalation (TA0004)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Scheduled Task/Job (T1053)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Domain or Tenant Policy Modification (T1484)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Lateral Movement (TA0008)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Lateral Tool Transfer (T1570)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-system.security*logs-windows.forwarded*winlogbeat-*
Related Integrations

system(external, opens in a new tab or window)

windows(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
any where host.os.type == "windows" and event.code in ("5136", "5145") and
(
  (
    winlog.event_data.AttributeLDAPDisplayName : (
      "gPCMachineExtensionNames",
      "gPCUserExtensionNames"
    ) and
    winlog.event_data.AttributeValue : "*CAB54552-DEEA-4691-817E-ED4A4D1AFC72*" and
    winlog.event_data.AttributeValue : "*AADCED64-746C-4633-A97C-D61349046527*"
  ) or
  (
    winlog.event_data.ShareName : "\\\\*\\SYSVOL" and
    winlog.event_data.RelativeTargetName : "*ScheduledTasks.xml" and
    winlog.event_data.AccessList:"*%%4417*"
  )
)

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Scheduled Task Execution at Scale via GPO in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).