osquery-defense-kit/detection/execution/exotic-command-events-macos.sql

-- Ported from exotic-commands
-- Designed for execution every 15 seconds (where the parent may still be around)

-- interval: 15
SELECT
  p.pid,
  p.path,
  REPLACE(
    p.path,
    RTRIM(p.path, REPLACE(p.path, '/', '')),
    ''
  ) AS basename,
  -- On macOS there is often a trailing space
  TRIM(p.cmdline) AS cmd,
  p.mode,
  p.cwd,
  p.euid,
  p.parent,
  p.syscall,
  hash.sha256,
  pp.path AS parent_path,
  pp.name AS parent_name,
  TRIM(p.cmdline) AS parent_cmd,
  pp.euid AS parent_euid,
  phash.sha256 AS parent_sha256
FROM
  uptime,
  process_events p
  LEFT JOIN processes pp ON p.parent = pp.pid
  LEFT JOIN hash ON p.path = hash.path
  LEFT JOIN hash AS phash ON pp.path = hash.path
WHERE
  p.time > (strftime('%s', 'now') -15)
  AND (
    basename IN (
      'bitspin',
      'bpftool',
      'csrutil',
      'heyoka',
      'nstx',
      'dnscat2',
      'tuns',
      'iodine',
      'rshell',
      'rsh',
      'incbit',
      'osascript',
      'kmod',
      'lushput',
      'mkfifo',
      'msfvenom',
      'nc',
      'socat'
    )
    -- Chrome Stealer
    OR cmd LIKE '%set visible of front window to false%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%chrome%-load-extension%'
    -- Known attack scripts
    OR basename LIKE '%pwn%'
    OR basename LIKE '%attack%'
    -- Unusual behaviors
    OR cmd LIKE '%chattr -ia%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%chmod 777 %'
    OR cmd LIKE '%touch%acmr%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%ld.so.preload%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%urllib.urlopen%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%nohup%tmp%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%killall Terminal%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%iptables stop'
    OR cmd LIKE '%pkill -f%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%rm -f /var/tmp%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%rm -rf /boot%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%rm -f /tmp%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%xargs kill -9%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%nohup /bin/bash%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%echo%|%base64 --decode %|%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%launchctl list%'
    -- Crypto miners
    OR cmd LIKE '%c3pool%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%cryptonight%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%f2pool%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%hashrate%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%hashvault%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%minerd%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%monero%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%nanopool%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%nicehash%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%stratum%'
    OR basename LIKE '%xig%'
    OR basename LIKE '%xmr%'
    -- Random keywords
    OR cmd LIKE '%ransom%'
    -- Reverse shells
    OR cmd LIKE '%fsockopen%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%openssl%quiet%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%pty.spawn%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%sh -i'
    OR cmd LIKE '%socat%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%SOCK_STREAM%'
    OR cmd LIKE '%Socket.%'
  ) -- Things that could reasonably happen at boot.
  AND NOT (
    p.path = '/usr/bin/mkfifo'
    AND cmd LIKE '%/org.gpgtools.log.%/fifo'
  )
  AND NOT (
    cmd LIKE '%csrutil status'
    AND parent_name IN ('Dropbox')
  )
  -- The source of these commands is still a mystery to me.
  AND NOT (
    cmd IN (
      '/usr/bin/csrutil status',
      '/usr/bin/csrutil report'
    )
    AND p.parent = -1
  )