LoFP LoFP / trusted applications persisting via launchagent

Techniques

Sample rules

Launch Agent Creation or Modification and Immediate Loading

Description

An adversary can establish persistence by installing a new launch agent that executes at login by using launchd or launchctl to load a plist into the appropriate directories.

Detection logic

sequence by host.id with maxspan=1m
 [file where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type != "deletion" and
  file.path : ("/System/Library/LaunchAgents/*", "/Library/LaunchAgents/*", "/Users/*/Library/LaunchAgents/*")
 ]
 [process where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name == "launchctl" and process.args == "load"]