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Launch Item Registration with Suspicious Executable Path via macOS Security Events

Identifies the registration of a launch agent or launch daemon whose target executable resides in a temporary or user-writable location, using launch item registration messages collected by the macOS Security Events…

Description

Identifies the registration of a launch agent or launch daemon whose target executable resides in a temporary or user-writable location, using launch item registration messages collected by the macOS Security Events integration. An adversary may establish persistence with a launch agent or daemon that runs a program staged in a world-writable or temporary directory, which is uncommon for legitimate software.

Detection logic

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Detection requirements

Platform
ContainersLinuxmacOSWindows

The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.

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