MacOS Emond Launch Daemon

 1title: MacOS Emond Launch Daemon
 2id: 23c43900-e732-45a4-8354-63e4a6c187ce
 3status: test
 4description: Detects additions to the Emond Launch Daemon that adversaries may use to gain persistence and elevate privileges.
 5references:
 6    - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1546.014/T1546.014.md
 7    - https://posts.specterops.io/leveraging-emond-on-macos-for-persistence-a040a2785124
 8author: Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
 9date: 2020-10-23
10modified: 2021-11-27
11tags:
12    - attack.persistence
13    - attack.privilege-escalation
14    - attack.t1546.014
15logsource:
16    category: file_event
17    product: macos
18detection:
19    selection_1:
20        TargetFilename|contains: '/etc/emond.d/rules/'
21        TargetFilename|endswith: '.plist'
22    selection_2:
23        TargetFilename|contains: '/private/var/db/emondClients/'
24    condition: 1 of selection_*
25falsepositives:
26    - Legitimate administration activities
27level: medium

References

• atomic-red-team/atomics/T1546.014/T1546.014.md at f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9 · redcanaryco/atomic-red-team

  

  Small and highly portable detection tests based on MITRE's ATT&CK. - redcanaryco/atomic-red-team

  
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• Leveraging Emond on macOS For Persistence

  

  NOTE: This binary was described in the recently released, “*OS Internals, Volume I, User Space” textbook by Jonathan Levin. This book has…

  
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