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Network Sniffing - MacOs

Detects the usage of tooling to sniff network traffic. An adversary may place a network interface into promiscuous mode to passively access data in transit over the network, or use span ports to capture a larger amount of data.

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Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.communityCreated Wed Oct 14Updated Sat Nov 26adc9bcc4-c39c-4f6b-a711-1884017bf043macos
Log Source
macOSProcess Creation
ProductmacOS← raw: macos
CategoryProcess Creation← raw: process_creation

Events generated when a new process is spawned on the system. Covers command-line arguments, parent/child relationships, and process metadata.

Detection Logic
Detection Logic1 selector
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith:
            - '/tcpdump'
            - '/tshark'
    condition: selection
False Positives

Legitimate administration activities

References
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Rule Metadata
Rule ID
adc9bcc4-c39c-4f6b-a711-1884017bf043
Status
test
Level
informational
Type
Detection
Created
Wed Oct 14
Modified
Sat Nov 26
Author
Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
Path
rules/macos/process_creation/proc_creation_macos_network_sniffing.yml
Raw Tags
attack.discoveryattack.credential-accessattack.t1040
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