Description

Overview

Raj Consultancy provides custom Splunk dashboard development focused on detecting suspicious and malicious scheduled task activity across Windows environments.

Scheduled tasks are frequently abused by threat actors for persistence, privilege escalation, and lateral movement. This solution enables SOC teams to gain immediate visibility into both legitimate and abnormal task creation behavior.

What the Dashboard Detects

The dashboard is engineered to identify high-risk scheduled task creation patterns, including:

Unauthorized task creation using schtasks.exe

Tasks executed under elevated or unexpected user contexts

Tasks triggered at unusual times or high frequency

Tasks launching suspicious binaries, scripts, or encoded commands

Persistence mechanisms aligned with MITRE ATT&CK T1053

All detections are based on behavioral indicators, not static signatures.

Data Sources & Telemetry

The solution leverages native Windows telemetry, including:

Windows Security Event Logs (Event ID 4688)

Process command-line analysis

User and host context correlation

Optional enrichment with endpoint and identity data

No invasive agents are required beyond standard SOC telemetry.

Dashboard Capabilities

The dashboard delivers actionable SOC-level visibility, including:

Real-time detection panels for suspicious task creation

Drill-down views with full process command-line context

User, host, and timestamp correlation

MITRE ATT&CK mapping for analyst and executive reporting

Noise reduction through filtering of known-benign tasks

Designed for Tier 1 triage and Tier 2 investigation workflows.

Business & Security Value

Early detection of persistence mechanisms

Reduced dwell time for compromised hosts

Faster analyst investigation through visual correlation

Improved SOC detection coverage against real-world attack techniques

Executive-ready visibility into adversary behavior

Use Cases

Enterprise SOC monitoring

Incident response investigations

Post-compromise persistence detection

Compliance-driven security monitoring

Red team and purple team validation

Delivery & Customization

Raj Consultancy customizes the dashboard based on:

Client environment and baseline behavior

Existing Splunk index and sourcetype architecture

SOC maturity and analyst workflows

Delivery includes dashboard deployment, detection tuning, and analyst handover.

Standards & Framework Alignment

MITRE ATT&CK: T1053 – Scheduled Task/Job

Enterprise SOC best practices