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Suspicious Execution via macOS Script Editor

A Sigma rule for process creation on macOS, by Tim Rauch (rule), Elastic (idea).

medium 7 ATT&CK techniques 15 programs it names

What it looks for

its detection, as SigmaHQ writes it
detection:
  selection_img:
    - Image|endswith:
        - '/curl'
        - '/bash'
        - '/sh'
        - '/zsh'
        - '/dash'
        - '/fish'
        - '/osascript'
        - '/mktemp'
        - '/chmod'
        - '/php'
        - '/nohup'
        - '/openssl'
        - '/plutil'
        - '/PlistBuddy'
        - '/xattr'
        - '/sqlite'
        - '/funzip'
        - '/popen'
    - Image|contains:
        - 'python'
        - 'perl'
  selection_parent:
    ParentImage|endswith: '/Script Editor'
  condition: all of 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 Tim Rauch (rule), Elastic (idea), 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
T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1059.002Command and Scripting Interpreter: AppleScript
T1204User Execution
T1204.001User Execution: Malicious Link
T1553Subvert Trust Controls
T1566Phishing
T1566.002Phishing: Spearphishing Link