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[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/12/07"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2021/03/03"
[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
description = """
An adversary can establish persistence by installing a new launch agent that executes at login by using launchd or
launchctl to load a plist into the appropriate directories.
"""
false_positives = ["Trusted applications persisting via LaunchAgent"]
from = "now-9m"
index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Launch Agent Creation or Modification and Immediate Loading"
references = [
"https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html",
]
risk_score = 21
rule_id = "082e3f8c-6f80-485c-91eb-5b112cb79b28"
severity = "low"
tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "macOS", "Threat Detection", "Persistence"]
type = "eql"
query = '''
sequence by host.id with maxspan=1m
[file where event.type != "deletion" and
file.path : ("/System/Library/LaunchAgents/*", "/Library/LaunchAgents/*", "/Users/*/Library/LaunchAgents/*")
]
[process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name == "launchctl" and process.args == "load"]
'''
[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1543"
name = "Create or Modify System Process"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/"
[[rule.threat.technique.subtechnique]]
id = "T1543.001"
name = "Launch Agent"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/001/"
[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0003"
name = "Persistence"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"