Detection rules › Sigma
MacOS Emond Launch Daemon
Detects additions to the Emond Launch Daemon that adversaries may use to gain persistence and elevate privileges.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Persistence | T1546.014 Event Triggered Execution: Emond |
| Privilege Escalation | T1546.014 Event Triggered Execution: Emond |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event | Title |
|---|---|---|
| ESF | create | File or Directory Create (NOTIFY) |
Rule body yaml
title: MacOS Emond Launch Daemon
id: 23c43900-e732-45a4-8354-63e4a6c187ce
status: test
description: Detects additions to the Emond Launch Daemon that adversaries may use to gain persistence and elevate privileges.
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1546.014/T1546.014.md
- https://posts.specterops.io/leveraging-emond-on-macos-for-persistence-a040a2785124
author: Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-23
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
- attack.persistence
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.t1546.014
logsource:
category: file_event
product: macos
detection:
selection_1:
TargetFilename|contains: '/etc/emond.d/rules/'
TargetFilename|endswith: '.plist'
selection_2:
TargetFilename|contains: '/private/var/db/emondClients/'
condition: 1 of selection_*
falsepositives:
- Legitimate administration activities
level: medium
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
1 of selection_*Stage 1: selection_1
selection_1:
TargetFilename|contains: '/etc/emond.d/rules/'
TargetFilename|endswith: '.plist'
Stage 2: selection_2
selection_2:
TargetFilename|contains: '/private/var/db/emondClients/'
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
TargetFilename | ends_with |
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TargetFilename | match |
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