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This guide details a systematic methodology for proactive threat hunting across Windows endpoints. It focuses on identifying various adversary persistence techniques, such as registry modifications (Run Keys), malicious services, WMI event subscriptions, and scheduled tasks. It is essential for incident response, security audits, and improving detection coverage against dormant backdoors.

A comprehensive threat hunting methodology designed to detect adversary persistence and execution mechanisms utilizing Windows Scheduled Tasks (T1053.005). This guide covers analyzing task creation events (Event ID 4698), suspicious properties, unusual triggers, and correlating activity with process execution logs (Sysmon). Ideal for incident responders and security analysts conducting proactive threat hunting on compromised endpoints.