Network Sniffing - MacOs
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.
Detection logic
selection
Image|endswith:
- /tcpdump
- /tsharkCondition
selectionRaw 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: informationalFalse positives
- Legitimate administration activities