Suspicious Plistbuddy Usage Via Osquery

Suspicious Plistbuddy Usage Via Osquery

Description

The following analytic identifies the use of a native MacOS utility, PlistBuddy, creating or modifying a properly list (.plist) file. In the instance of Silver Sparrow, the following commands were executed:\ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :Label string initverx" ~/Library/Launchagents/initverx.plist \ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :RunAtLoad bool true" ~/Library/Launchagents/initverx.plist \ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :StartInterval integer 3600" ~/Library/Launchagents/initverx.plist \ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments array" ~/Library/Launchagents/initverx.plist \ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments:0 string /bin/sh" ~/Library/Launchagents/initverx.plist \ - PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments:1 string -c" ~/Library/Launchagents/init_verx.plist \ Upon triage, capture the property list file being written to disk and review for further indicators. Contain the endpoint and triage further.

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Suspicious Plistbuddy Usage Via Osquery Help

OSQuery must be installed and configured to pick up process events (info at https://osquery.io) as well as using the Splunk OSQuery Add-on https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4402. Modify the macro and validate fields are correct.

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