atomic-red-team/Mac/Persistence/Launch_Agent.md

Launch Agent

MITRE ATT&CK Technique: T1159

Input:

Filename: .client

(Place within any directory, it will need to be referenced in the plist)

osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to display dialog "Hello World"'

Place the following in a new file under ~/Library/LaunchAgents as com.atomicredteam.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
 <key>KeepAlive</key>
 <true/>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>com.client.client</string>
 <key>ProgramArguments</key>
 <array>
 <string>/Users/<update path to .clent file>/.client</string>
 </array>
 <key>RunAtLoad</key>
 <true/>
 <key>NSUIElement</key>
 <string>1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Launch:

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.atomicredteam.plist