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Defrag Deactivation - Security
Detects the deactivation and disabling of the Scheduled defragmentation task as seen by Slingshot APT group
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Execution | T1053 Scheduled Task/Job |
| Persistence | T1053 Scheduled Task/Job |
| Privilege Escalation | T1053 Scheduled Task/Job |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4701 | A scheduled task was disabled. |
Rule body yaml
title: Defrag Deactivation - Security
id: c5a178bf-9cfb-4340-b584-e4df39b6a3e7
related:
- id: 958d81aa-8566-4cea-a565-59ccd4df27b0
type: derived
status: test
description: Detects the deactivation and disabling of the Scheduled defragmentation task as seen by Slingshot APT group
references:
- https://securelist.com/apt-slingshot/84312/
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Bartlomiej Czyz (@bczyz1)
date: 2019-03-04
modified: 2022-11-27
tags:
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.execution
- attack.persistence
- attack.t1053
- attack.s0111
- detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
product: windows
service: security
definition: 'Requirements: Audit Policy : Audit Other Object Access Events > Success'
detection:
selection:
EventID: 4701
TaskName: '\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: medium
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
selectionStage 1: selection
selection:
EventID: 4701
TaskName: '\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag'
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
TaskName | eq |
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