File and Directory Discovery - MacOS
Detects usage of system utilities to discover files and directories
Detection logic
select_file_with_asterisk
Image: /usr/bin/file
CommandLine|re: (.){200,}select_recursive_ls
Image: /bin/ls
CommandLine|contains: -Rselect_find_execution
Image: /usr/bin/findselect_mdfind_execution
Image: /usr/bin/mdfindselect_tree_execution|endswith
Image: /treeCondition
1 of select*Raw YAML
title: File and Directory Discovery - MacOS
id: 089dbdf6-b960-4bcc-90e3-ffc3480c20f6
status: test
description: Detects usage of system utilities to discover files and directories
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1083/T1083.md
author: Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-19
modified: 2022-11-25
tags:
- attack.discovery
- attack.t1083
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: macos
detection:
select_file_with_asterisk:
Image: '/usr/bin/file'
CommandLine|re: '(.){200,}' # execution of the 'file */* *>> /tmp/output.txt' will produce huge commandline
select_recursive_ls:
Image: '/bin/ls'
CommandLine|contains: '-R'
select_find_execution:
Image: '/usr/bin/find'
select_mdfind_execution:
Image: '/usr/bin/mdfind'
select_tree_execution|endswith:
Image: '/tree'
condition: 1 of select*
falsepositives:
- Legitimate activities
level: informationalFalse positives
- Legitimate activities