-- Unexpected launchd scripts that use the 'program_arguments' field -- -- references: -- * https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/004/ (Create or Modify System Process: Launch Daemon) -- -- false positives: -- * Software by new vendors which have not yet been added to the allow list -- -- tags: persistent filesystem state -- platform: darwin SELECT l.label, l.name, l.path, TRIM(REGEX_SPLIT (l.program_arguments, ' -', 0)) AS program_path, l.program_arguments, l.keep_alive, signature.authority AS program_authority, hash.sha256 FROM launchd l LEFT JOIN signature ON program_path = signature.path LEFT JOIN hash ON program_path = hash.path WHERE ( run_at_load = 1 OR keep_alive = 1 ) AND ( program IS NULL OR program = '' ) AND l.path NOT LIKE '/System/%' AND program_authority NOT IN ( 'Developer ID Application: Adobe Inc. (JQ525L2MZD)', 'Developer ID Application: Corsair Memory, Inc. (Y93VXCB8Q5)', 'Developer ID Application: Foxit Corporation (8GN47HTP75)', 'Developer ID Application: Google LLC (EQHXZ8M8AV)', 'Developer ID Application: Google, Inc. (EQHXZ8M8AV)', 'Developer ID Application: Keybase, Inc. (99229SGT5K)', 'Developer ID Application: Kolide Inc (YZ3EM74M78)', 'Developer ID Application: Logitech Inc. (QED4VVPZWA)', 'Developer ID Application: Fumihiko Takayama (G43BCU2T37)', 'Developer ID Application: MacPaw Inc. (S8EX82NJP6)', 'Developer ID Application: Mersive Technologies (63B5A5WDNG)', 'Developer ID Application: JetBrains s.r.o. (2ZEFAR8TH3)', 'Developer ID Application: Microsoft Corporation (UBF8T346G9)', 'Developer ID Application: Proton Technologies AG (6UN54H93QT)', 'Developer ID Application: Seiko Epson Corporation (TXAEAV5RN4)', 'Developer ID Application: Sanford, L.P. (N3S6676K3E)', -- DYMO 'Developer ID Application: Canva Pty Ltd (5HD2ARTBFS)', 'Developer ID Application: Private Internet Access, Inc. (5357M5NW9W)', 'Developer ID Application: Tenable, Inc. (4B8J598M7U)', 'Software Signing', -- Apple 'yabai-cert' ) AND program_arguments NOT IN ( '/Applications/Stream Deck.app/Contents/MacOS/Stream Deck --runinbk', '/opt/homebrew/opt/mariadb/bin/mysqld_safe', '/opt/homebrew/opt/skhd/bin/skhd', '/opt/homebrew/opt/jenkins/bin/jenkins --httpListenAddress=127.0.0.1 --httpPort=8080', '/opt/homebrew/opt/yubikey-agent/bin/yubikey-agent -l /opt/homebrew/var/run/yubikey-agent.sock', '/usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/fixGpgHome' ) AND program_arguments NOT LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Application Support/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama/Scripts/Grammarly Uninstaller' AND program_arguments NOT LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Application Support/com.grammarly.ProjectLlama/Scripts/post-uninstall.sh' AND program_arguments NOT LIKE '%/mysqld_safe --datadir=%'