CmdID

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Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS

A Sigma rule for process creation on macOS, by Sohan G (D4rkCiph3r).

high 3 ATT&CK techniques 10 programs it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection:
    Image|endswith:
      - '/bash'
      - '/curl'
      - '/dash'
      - '/fish'
      - '/osacompile'
      - '/osascript'
      - '/sh'
      - '/zsh'
      - '/python'
      - '/python3'
      - '/wget'
    ParentImage|contains:
      - 'Microsoft Word'
      - 'Microsoft Excel'
      - 'Microsoft PowerPoint'
      - 'Microsoft OneNote'
  condition: selection

The rule’s detection, its selections and fields in order of name. The whole rule, with its references and false positives, is on SigmaHQ, by Sohan G (D4rkCiph3r), under the Detection Rule License 1.1. CmdID evaluates it on a command line alone: a test on what a command line cannot show, such as the parent process or the user, is not met.

None of the everyday examples and documented commands on CmdID’s program pages trips it. To see whether a command line does, paste it into CmdID.

Programs and files it names

their pages here

ATT&CK

the techniques it is tagged with
T1059.002Command and Scripting Interpreter: AppleScript
T1137.002Office Application Startup: Office Test
T1204.002User Execution: Malicious File