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splunk-security_content/detections/endpoint/macos_plutil.yml
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name: MacOS plutil
id: c11f2b57-92c1-4cd2-b46c-064eafb833ac
version: 2
date: '2022-05-26'
author: Patrick Bareiss, Splunk
type: TTP
datamodel:
- Endpoint
description: Detect usage of plutil to modify plist files. Adversaries can modiy plist files to executed binaries or add command line
arguments. Plist files in auto-run locations are executed upon user logon or system startup.
search: '`osquery` name=es_process_events columns.path=/usr/bin/plutil
| rename columns.* as *
| stats count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime by username host cmdline pid path parent signing_id
| rename username as User, cmdline as process, path as process_path
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `macos_plutil_filter`'
how_to_implement: This detection uses osquery and endpoint security on MacOS.
Follow the link in references, which describes how to setup process auditing in MacOS
with endpoint security and osquery.
known_false_positives: Administrators using plutil to change plist files.
references:
- https://osquery.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/process-auditing/
tags:
analytic_story:
- Living Off The Land
asset_type: Endpoint
cis20:
- CIS 3
- CIS 5
- CIS 16
confidence: 50
context:
- Source:Endpoint
- Stage:Execution
dataset:
- https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/splunk/attack_data/master/datasets/attack_techniques/T1647/atomic_red_team/osquery.log
impact: 50
kill_chain_phases:
- Actions on Objectives
message: plutil are executed on $host$ from $user$
mitre_attack_id:
- T1647
nist:
- DE.CM
observable:
- name: user
type: User
role:
- Victim
- name: process
type: Process
role:
- Child Process
product:
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Security
- Splunk Cloud
required_fields:
- _time
- columns.cmdline
- columns.pid
- columns.parent
- columns.path
- columns.signing_id
- columns.username
- host
risk_score: 25
security_domain: endpoint