title: 'Suspicious History File Operations'
id: 508a9374-ad52-4789-b568-fc358def2c65
status: test
description: 'Detects commandline operations on shell history files'
author: 'Mikhail Larin, oscd.community'
references:
  - https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/master/atomics/T1552.003/T1552.003.md
date: 2020/10/17
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  product: macos
  category: process_creation
detection:
  selection:
    CommandLine|contains:
      - '.bash_history'
      - '.zsh_history'
      - '.zhistory'
      - '.history'
      - '.sh_history'
      - 'fish_history'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitimate administrative activity
  - Ligitimate software, cleaning hist file
level: medium
tags:
  - attack.credential_access
  - attack.t1552.003
