Elastic Security Detection Rules

Persistence via BITS Job Notify Cmdline

Last updated 9 months ago on 2025-03-20
Created 4 years ago on 2021-12-04

About

An adversary can use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) SetNotifyCmdLine method to execute a program that runs after a job finishes transferring data or after a job enters a specified state in order to persist on a system.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: WindowsUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: PersistenceData Source: Elastic EndgameData Source: Elastic DefendData Source: SysmonData Source: SentinelOneData Source: Microsoft Defender for EndpointLanguage: eql
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Persistence (TA0003)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ BITS Jobs (T1197)(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-endpoint.events.process-*winlogbeat-*logs-windows.sysmon_operational-*endgame-*logs-sentinel_one_cloud_funnel.*logs-m365_defender.event-*
Related Integrations

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

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

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

m365_defender(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
process where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "start" and
  process.parent.name : "svchost.exe" and process.parent.args : "BITS" and
  not process.executable :
              ("?:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFaultSecure.exe",
               "?:\\Windows\\System32\\WerFault.exe",
               "?:\\Windows\\System32\\wermgr.exe",
               "?:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\directxdatabaseupdater.exe")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Persistence via BITS Job Notify Cmdline 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).