Local System Accounts Discovery - MacOs
testlowLog-Quelle: macos · process_creationAutor Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.communityDatum 2020-10-08
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Beschreibung
Was dies ist, in Kürze.
Detects enumeration of local system accounts on MacOS systems. This can be used by attackers to identify accounts for lateral movement or privilege escalation.
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Tags
attack.discoveryattack.t1087.001
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Regelquelle (YAML)
title: Local System Accounts Discovery - MacOs
id: ddf36b67-e872-4507-ab2e-46bda21b842c
status: test
description: |
Detects enumeration of local system accounts on MacOS systems.
This can be used by attackers to identify accounts for lateral movement or privilege escalation.
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1087.001/T1087.001.md
- https://ss64.com/osx/dscl.html
- https://ss64.com/mac/dscacheutil.html
author: Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-08
modified: 2026-07-07
tags:
- attack.discovery
- attack.t1087.001
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: macos
detection:
selection_dscl:
Image|endswith: '/dscl'
CommandLine|contains|all:
- 'list'
- '/users'
selection_dscacheutil:
Image|endswith: '/dscacheutil'
CommandLine|contains|all:
- '-q'
- 'user'
selection_root:
CommandLine|contains: '''*:0:'''
selection_passwd_sudo:
Image|endswith:
- '/cat'
- '/awk'
- '/grep'
CommandLine|contains:
- '/etc/passwd'
- '/etc/sudoers'
selection_id:
Image|endswith: '/id'
selection_lsof:
Image|endswith: '/lsof'
CommandLine|contains: '-u'
selection_logged_in_users:
Image|endswith:
- '/who'
- '/w'
- '/users'
- '/last'
selection_home_dir_listing:
Image|endswith: '/ls'
CommandLine|endswith:
- '/Users'
- "/Users'"
- '/Users"'
selection_loginwindow_prefs:
Image|endswith:
- '/defaults' # defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow
- '/plutil' # plutil -p /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
CommandLine|contains: 'com.apple.loginwindow'
condition: 1 of selection*
falsepositives:
- Legitimate administration activities
level: low
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erkennt Techniken (1)
ATT&CK-Techniken, die dies ermöglicht oder abbildet.
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Referenzen
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