IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
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SystemKey Access via Command Line
editSystemKey Access via Command Line
editKeychains are the built-in way for macOS to keep track of users' passwords and credentials for many services and features, including Wi-Fi and website passwords, secure notes, certificates, and Kerberos. Adversaries may collect the keychain storage data from a system to acquire credentials.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- auditbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- macOS
- Threat Detection
- Credential Access
Version: 100 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editevent.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.args:("/private/var/db/SystemKey" or "/var/db/SystemKey")
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Credential Access
- ID: TA0006
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0006/
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Technique:
- Name: Credentials from Password Stores
- ID: T1555
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1555/
Rule version history
edit- Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (8.4.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (8.2.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.args:"/private/var/db/SystemKey"
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