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Network Sniffing - MacOs

Status
test
Severity
informational
Log source
product macos, category process_creation
Author
Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects the usage of tooling to sniff network traffic. An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Credential AccessT1040 Network Sniffing
DiscoveryT1040 Network Sniffing

Event coverage

ProviderEventTitle
ESFexecProcess Execution (Notify)

Rule body yaml

title: Network Sniffing - MacOs
id: adc9bcc4-c39c-4f6b-a711-1884017bf043
status: test
description: |
  Detects the usage of tooling to sniff network traffic.
  An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1040/T1040.md
author: Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-14
modified: 2022-11-26
tags:
    - attack.discovery
    - attack.credential-access
    - attack.t1040
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: macos
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith:
            - '/tcpdump'
            - '/tshark'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate administration activities
level: informational

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    Image|endswith:
        - '/tcpdump'
        - '/tshark'

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.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • /tcpdump
  • /tshark