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Emond Rules Creation or Modification

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Emond Rules Creation or Modification

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Identifies the creation or modification of the Event Monitor Daemon (emond) rules. Adversaries may abuse this service by writing a rule to execute commands when a defined event occurs, such as system start up or user authentication.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Domain: Endpoint
OS: macOS
Use Case: Threat Detection
Tactic: Persistence
Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 104

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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file where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type != "deletion" and
 file.path : ("/private/etc/emond.d/rules/*.plist", "/etc/emon.d/rules/*.plist", "/private/var/db/emondClients/*")

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Event Triggered Execution
- ID: T1546
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/
Sub-technique:
- Name: Emond
- ID: T1546.014
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1546/014/

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