Security Software Discovery - MacOs

Detects usage of system utilities (only grep for now) to discover security software discovery

Detection logic

image

Image: /usr/bin/grep

selection_cli_1

CommandLine|contains:
  - nessusd
  - santad
  - CbDefense
  - falcond
  - td-agent
  - packetbeat
  - filebeat
  - auditbeat
  - osqueryd
  - BlockBlock
  - LuLu

selection_cli_2

CommandLine|contains|all:
  - Little
  - Snitch

Condition

image and 1 of selection_cli_*

Raw YAML

title: Security Software Discovery - MacOs
id: 0ed75b9c-c73b-424d-9e7d-496cd565fbe0
status: test
description: Detects usage of system utilities (only grep for now) to discover security software discovery
references:
    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1518.001/T1518.001.md
author: Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-19
modified: 2022-11-27
tags:
    - attack.discovery
    - attack.t1518.001
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: macos
detection:
    image:
        Image: '/usr/bin/grep'
    selection_cli_1:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - 'nessusd'        # nessus vulnerability scanner
            - 'santad'         # google santa
            - 'CbDefense'      # carbon black
            - 'falcond'        # crowdstrike falcon
            - 'td-agent'       # fluentd log shipper
            - 'packetbeat'     # elastic network logger/shipper
            - 'filebeat'       # elastic log file shipper
            - 'auditbeat'      # elastic auditing agent/log shipper
            - 'osqueryd'       # facebook osquery
            - 'BlockBlock'     # Objective-See persistence locations watcher/blocker
            - 'LuLu'           # Objective-See firewall management utility
    selection_cli_2: # Objective Development Software firewall management utility
        CommandLine|contains|all:
            - 'Little'
            - 'Snitch'
    condition: image and 1 of selection_cli_*
falsepositives:
    - Legitimate activities
level: medium

False positives

Legitimate activities

References

https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1518.001/T1518.001.md

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