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t1053.005

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administrative activity
automation scripts combining curl and powershell in controlled environments.
benign scheduled tasks creations or executions that happen often during software installations
false positives may occur with some of the selected binaries if you have tasks using them (which could be very common in your environment). exclude all the specific trusted tasks before using this rule
if the source ip is not localhost then it's super suspicious, better to monitor both local and remote changes to gpo scheduled tasks.
legitimate processes that run at logon. filter according to your environment
legitimate software naming their tasks as guids
legitimate system administration tasks scheduling trusted system processes.
legitimate use of schtasks for administrative purposes.
software installation
software installers that run from temporary folders and also install scheduled tasks are expected to generate some false positives
software that uses the appdata folder and scheduled tasks to update the software in the appdata folders
some installers were seen using this method of creation unfortunately. filter them in your environment
unknown
unlikely