-- Find programs running from strange directories on macOS -- -- false positives: -- - Vendors who are doing weird things that are not in the signature list -- -- See "execdir-events" for the version that is more likely to catch things -- -- platform: darwin -- tags: transient seldom process filesystem state SELECT p.pid, p.name, p.path, p.euid, p.gid, p.cwd, f.ctime, f.directory AS dir, REGEX_MATCH (p.path, '(/.*?/.*?/.*?)/', 1) AS top_dir, -- 3 levels deep REPLACE(f.directory, u.directory, '~') AS homedir, REGEX_MATCH ( REPLACE(f.directory, u.directory, '~'), '(~/.*?/.*?/.*?/)', 1 ) AS top3_homedir, REGEX_MATCH ( REPLACE(f.directory, u.directory, '~'), '(~/.*?/)', 1 ) AS top_homedir, -- 1 level deep p.cmdline, hash.sha256, pp.path AS parent_path, pp.name AS parent_name, pp.cmdline AS parent_cmdline, pp.euid AS parent_euid, hash.sha256 AS parent_sha256, signature.identifier, signature.authority FROM processes p LEFT JOIN file f ON p.path = f.path LEFT JOIN hash ON hash.path = p.path LEFT JOIN users u ON p.uid = u.uid LEFT JOIN processes pp ON p.parent = pp.pid LEFT JOIN signature ON p.path = signature.path WHERE dir NOT IN ( '/bin', '/Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized/Logitech Options.localized/LogiMgrUpdater.app/Contents/Resources', '/Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501', '/Library/Filesystems/kbfuse.fs/Contents/Resources', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin', '/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Helpers.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Helpers/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/MacOS', '/Library/Printers/DYMO/Utilities', '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools', '/Library/TeX/texbin', '/nix/store', '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin', '/node_modules/.bin', '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gke-gcloud-auth-plugin', '/opt/usr/bin', '/opt/X11/bin', '/opt/X11/libexec', '/run/current-system/sw/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib', '/usr/lib/bluetooth', '/usr/lib/cups/notifier', '/usr/libexec', '/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall', '/usr/libexec/AssetCache', '/usr/libexec/firmwarecheckers', '/usr/libexec/firmwarecheckers/eficheck', '/usr/libexec/rosetta', '/usr/lib/fwupd', '/usr/lib/ibus', '/usr/lib/system', '/usr/local/bin', '/usr/sbin' ) AND top_dir NOT IN ( '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents', '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents', '/Library/Apple/System', '/Library/Application Support/Adobe', '/Library/Application Support/GPGTools', '/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate', '/System/Applications/Mail.app', '/System/Applications/Music.app', '/System/Applications/News.app', '/System/Applications/TV.app', '/System/Applications/Weather.app', '/System/Library/CoreServices', '/System/Library/Filesystems', '/System/Library/Frameworks', '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks', '/System/Library/SystemConfiguration', '/System/Library/SystemProfiler', '/System/Volumes/Preboot', '/usr/local/kolide-k2' ) AND homedir NOT IN ( '~/bin', '~/code/bin', '~/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/bin', '~/Library/Application Support/dev.warp.Warp-Stable', '~/Library/Application Support/zoom.us/Plugins/aomhost.app/Contents/MacOS', '~/go/bin', '~/Library/Application Support/cloud-code/installer/google-cloud-sdk/bin', '~/.local/bin', '~/.magefile', '~/projects/go/bin' ) AND top_homedir NOT IN ( '~/Applications/', '~/Applications (Parallels)/', '~/bin/', '~/.cargo/', '~/code/', '~/sigstore/', '~/Code/', '~/.config/', '~/dev/', '~/git/', '~/go/', '~/google-cloud-sdk/', '~/homebrew/', '~/.kuberlr/', -- Abused by KeySteal -- '~/Library/', -- Abused by DazzleSpy, use a more specific place -- '~/.local/', '~/Parallels/', '~/proj/', '~/projects/', '~/.provisio/', '~/.pulumi/', '~/.pyenv/', '~/.rbenv/', '~/.rustup/', '~/src/', '~/.tflint.d/', '~/.vscode/', '~/.vs-kubernetes/' ) AND top3_homedir NOT IN ( '~/Library/Application Support/com.elgato.StreamDeck/', '~/Library/Caches/snyk/', '~/.terraform.d/plugin-cache/registry.terraform.io/', '~/Library/Application Support/Foxit Software/', '~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/' ) -- Locally built executables AND NOT ( signature.identifier = "a.out" AND homedir LIKE '~/%' AND pp.name LIKE '%sh' ) AND dir NOT LIKE '/Applications/%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/tmp/%.app/Contents/MacOS' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/tmp/go-build%/exe' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/tmp/KSInstallAction.%/Install Google Software Update.app/Contents/Helpers' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/tmp/nix-build-%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.%/Scripts/com.microsoft.OneDrive.%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.roleaccountd.staging/%.xpc/Contents/MacOS' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/bin' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/Contents/%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/d/Wrapper/%.app' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/go-build%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/private/var/folders/%/GoLand' AND dir NOT LIKE '%/.terraform/providers/%' AND dir NOT LIKE '/Volumes/com.getdropbox.dropbox-%' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/%/google-cloud-sdk/bin/%' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/%' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/%/node_modules/.pnpm/%' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/.local/%/packages/%' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/Library/Printers/%/Contents/MacOS' AND homedir NOT LIKE '~/Library/Application Support/cloud-code/bin/versions/%' -- Allow these anywhere (put last because it's slow to query signatures) AND signature.authority NOT IN ( 'Apple iPhone OS Application Signing', 'Apple Mac OS Application Signing', 'Developer ID Application: Adobe Inc. (JQ525L2MZD)', 'Developer ID Application: Cisco (DE8Y96K9QP)', 'Developer ID Application: CodeWeavers Inc. (9C6B7X7Z8E)', 'Developer ID Application: Corsair Memory, Inc. (Y93VXCB8Q5)', 'Developer ID Application: Docker Inc (9BNSXJN65R)', 'Developer ID Application: Dropbox, Inc. (G7HH3F8CAK)', 'Developer ID Application: Figma, Inc. (T8RA8NE3B7)', 'Developer ID Application: GEORGE NACHMAN (H7V7XYVQ7D)', 'Developer ID Application: Google LLC (EQHXZ8M8AV)', 'Developer ID Application: Hashicorp, Inc. (D38WU7D763)', 'Developer ID Application: Sublime HQ Pty Ltd (Z6D26JE4Y4)', 'Developer ID Application: Logitech Inc. (QED4VVPZWA)', 'Developer ID Application: JetBrains s.r.o. (2ZEFAR8TH3)', 'Developer ID Application: Microsoft Corporation (UBF8T346G9)', 'Developer ID Application: Node.js Foundation (HX7739G8FX)', 'Developer ID Application: Objective Development Software GmbH (MLZF7K7B5R)', 'Developer ID Application: Objective-See, LLC (VBG97UB4TA)', 'Developer ID Application: Opal Camera Inc (97Z3HJWCRT)', 'Developer ID Application: Oracle America, Inc. (VB5E2TV963)', 'Developer ID Application: TablePlus Inc (3X57WP8E8V)', 'Developer ID Application: Tenable, Inc. (4B8J598M7U)', 'Developer ID Application: Valve Corporation (MXGJJ98X76)', 'Developer ID Application: Wireshark Foundation, Inc. (7Z6EMTD2C6)', 'Software Signing' )