-- Programs who were recently written to disk, based on btime (macOS) or ctime (Linux) -- -- false-positives: -- * many -- -- tags: transient process state often -- platform: posix SELECT p.pid, p.path, p.name, p.cmdline, p.cwd, p.euid, p.parent, f.directory, f.ctime, f.btime, f.mtime, p.start_time, pp.path AS parent_path, pp.name AS parent_name, pp.cmdline AS parent_cmdline, pp.cwd AS parent_cwd, pp.euid AS parent_euid, ch.sha256 AS child_sha256, ph.sha256 AS parent_sha256 FROM processes p LEFT JOIN file f ON p.path = f.path LEFT JOIN processes pp ON p.parent = pp.pid LEFT JOIN hash AS ch ON p.path = ch.path LEFT JOIN hash AS ph ON pp.path = ph.path WHERE p.start_time > 0 AND f.ctime > 0 -- Only process programs that had an inode modification within the last 3 minutes AND (p.start_time - MAX(f.ctime, f.btime)) < 180 AND p.start_time >= MAX(f.ctime, f.ctime) AND NOT f.directory IN ( '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin-container.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Grammarly Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Opal.app/Contents/Library/LaunchServices', '/Applications/Opal.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Opal.app/Contents/XPCServices/OpalCameraDeviceService.xpc/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Signal Helper.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Signal Helper (GPU).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Signal Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Signal.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Slack Helper.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Slack Helper (GPU).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Frameworks/Slack Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper (GPU).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Stream Deck.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtWebEngineCore.framework/Versions/5/Helpers/QtWebEngineProcess.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Stream Deck.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/MacOS', '/usr/lib/firefox', '/Applications/Tailscale.app/Contents/PlugIns/IPNExtension.appex/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Todoist.app/Contents/Frameworks/Todoist Helper.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Todoist.app/Contents/Frameworks/Todoist Helper (GPU).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Todoist.app/Contents/Frameworks/Todoist Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS', '/Applications/Todoist.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Apple/System/Library/CoreServices/XProtect.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Apple/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources', '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AdobeGCClient', '/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/OpalVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources', '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin', '/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/LOGINserver.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/NETserver.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/USBAppControl.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/USBserver.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/Server/WorkflowAppControl.app/Contents/MacOS', '/usr/local/kolide-k2/bin' ) -- Typically daemons or long-running desktop apps AND NOT p.path IN ( '', '/Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501/dbkextd', '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.acc.installer.v2', '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.docker.vmnetd', '/opt/google/chrome/chrome', '/usr/bin/containerd', '/usr/bin/dockerd', '/usr/bin/obs', '/usr/bin/udevadm', '/usr/bin/pipewire', '/usr/lib/at-spi2-registryd', '/usr/lib/at-spi-bus-launcher', '/usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd', '/usr/libexec/sssd/sssd_kcm', '/usr/lib/fwupd/fwupd', '/usr/lib/slack/chrome_crashpad_handler', '/usr/lib/slack/slack', '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald', '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-oomd', '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-resolved', '/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd', '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/obs-plugins/obs-browser-page', '/usr/lib/xf86-video-intel-backlight-helper', '/usr/sbin/cupsd', '/usr/sbin/tailscaled' ) AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Applications/%.app/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '%-go-build%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/home/%/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/home/%/terraform-provider-%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/home/%/%.test' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Library/Apple/System/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '%/Library/Application Support/com.elgato.StreamDeck%' -- Known parent processes, typically GUI shells and updaters AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/nix/store/%/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/opt/homebrew/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/tmp/%/Creative Cloud Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Install' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/tmp/go-build%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/tmp/nix-build-%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.roleaccountd.staging/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/go-build%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/GoLand/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/T/pulumi-go.%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/code/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Application Support/%/Contents/MacOS/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/iTermServer-%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Caches/%/Contents/MacOS/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Google/%.bundle/Contents/Helpers/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/Library/Mobile Documents/%/Contents/Frameworks%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/terraform-provider-%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/Users/%/%.test' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/usr/local/bin/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/usr/local/Cellar/%' AND NOT p.path LIKE '/usr/local/kolide-k2/bin/osqueryd-updates/%/osqueryd' AND NOT p.path LIKE '%/.vscode/extensions/%' AND NOT pp.path IN ('/usr/bin/gnome-shell') -- Filter out developers working on their own code AND NOT ( ( p.path LIKE '/Users/%' OR p.path LIKE '/home/%' ) AND p.uid > 499 AND f.ctime = f.mtime AND f.uid = p.uid AND p.cmdline LIKE './%' ) GROUP BY p.pid