Suspicious Monitoring For Persistence Through BITS (via process_creation)

title: Suspicious Monitoring For Persistence Through BITS (via process_creation)
id: 353df63f-6086-520b-a058-190d1b3c7e83
status: stable
description: This rule detects BITS will enable you to schedule a command to execute after a successful download to notify you that the job is finished. When the job runs on the system the command specified in the BITS job will be executed. This can be misused by actors to create a backdoor within the system and for persistence. It will be chained in a BITS job to schedule the download of malware/additional binaries and execute the program after being downloaded.
references:
    - https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1197/
    - https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/10/kegtap-and-singlemalt-with-a-ransomware-chaser.html
    - http://0xthem.blogspot.com/2014/03/t-emporal-persistence-with-and-schtasks.html
    - https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Wipe+the+drive+Stealthy+Malware+Persistence+Mechanism+-+Part+1/15394
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-02-13
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.execution
    - attack.stealth
    - attack.t1197
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: process_creation
detection:
    selection_img:
        - Image|endswith: '\bitsadmin.exe'
        - OriginalFileName: 'bitsadmin.exe'
    selection_cli_notify_1:
        CommandLine|contains: '/SetNotifyCmdLine'
    selection_cli_notify_2:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - '%COMSPEC%'
            - 'cmd.exe'
            - 'regsvr32.exe'
    selection_cli_add_1:
        CommandLine|contains: '/Addfile'
    selection_cli_add_2:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - 'http:'
            - 'https:'
            - 'ftp:'
            - 'ftps:'
    condition: selection_img and (all of selection_cli_notify_* or all of selection_cli_add_*)
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium