MediumSigmaHQ Alejandro Ortuno +1

Scheduled Cron Task/Job - MacOs

Detects abuse of the cron utility to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code. Detection will focus on crontab jobs uploaded from the tmp folder.

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: ESXi Linux macOS
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: macos
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Legitimate administration activities

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1053.003/T1053.003.md	Detection test	3

Detection rules

Scheduled Cron Task/Job - MacOs

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules