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LaunchDaemon Creation or Modification and Immediate Loadingedit
Adversaries may create or modify launch daemons to repeatedly execute malicious payloads as part of persistence.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- auditbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- macOS
- Threat Detection
- Persistence
Version: 3 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.0.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positivesedit
Trusted applications persisting via LaunchDaemons
Rule queryedit
sequence by host.id with maxspan=1m [file where event.type != "deletion" and file.path in ("/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/*", "/Library/LaunchDaemons/*")] [process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name == "launchctl" and process.args == "load"]
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Create or Modify System Process
- ID: T1543
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 3 (8.0.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
sequence by host.id with maxspan=1m [file where event.type != "deletion" and file.path in ("/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/*", " /Library/LaunchDaemons/*")] [process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name == "launchctl" and process.args == "load"]
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- Version 2 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only