Sigma rule: Interactive AT Job

Rule

Title

Interactive AT Job

Status

test

Level

high

Author

E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community

Date

2019-10-24

Modified

2021-11-27

File

rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_at_interactive_execution.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects an interactive AT job, which may be used as a form of privilege escalation.

Log source

product

windows

category

process_creation

Detection

selection:
    Image|endswith: '\at.exe'
    CommandLine|contains: 'interactive'
condition: selection

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Unlikely (at.exe deprecated as of Windows 8)

Tags

• attack.persistence
• attack.execution
• attack.privilege-escalation
• attack.t1053.002

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

• T1053.002

References

• https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1053.002/T1053.002.md
• https://eqllib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/analytics/d8db43cf-ed52-4f5c-9fb3-c9a4b95a0b56.html

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_at_interactive_execution.yml