malware
MacSpy S0282
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- macOS
- Created
- 17 October 2018
- Last modified
- 25 April 2025
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
malware
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this malware touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 825 ATT&CK software entries only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
44th percentile · 56% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more Enterprise techniques.
53rd percentile · 53% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
19th percentile · 81% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
150 distinct rules cover the 9 techniques recorded for this malware. 98 Sigma · 52 Splunk.
| Select | Title | Description | Category | Status | Event | OS | Product | MITRE ATT&CK | CVEs | Severity | Author | Created | Updated | ID | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS. (...) | Hunting | test | file_delete | windows | Sysmon | - | low | frack113 | 2023-09-04 | — | 7eac0a16-5832-4e81-865f-0268a6d19e4b | ||||
Detects the deletion of the "Zone.Identifier" ADS by an uncommon process. (...) | Generic | test | file_delete | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) | 2023-09-04 | 2025-07-04 | 3109530e-ab47-4cc6-a953-cac5ebcc93ae | ||||
Detects suspicious user agent strings used in APT malware in proxy logs | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Markus Neis | 2019-11-12 | 2024-02-15 | 6ec820f2-e963-4801-9127-d8b2dce4d31b | ||||
Detects suspicious user agent string of APT40 Dropbox tool | Emerging | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Thomas Patzke | 2019-11-12 | 2023-05-18 | 5ba715b6-71b7-44fd-8245-f66893e81b3d | ||||
Detects creation of persistence artifacts placed by Atomic MacOS Stealer in macOS systems. (...) | Emerging | experimental | file_event | macos | - | - | high | Jason Phang Vern - Onn, Robbin Ooi Zhen Heng (Gen Digital) | 2025-11-22 | — | e710a880-1f18-4417-b6a0-b5afdf7e3023 | ||||
Detects attempts to record audio using the arecord and ecasound utilities. | Generic | test | process_creation | linux | Linux Auditd | - | low | Pawel Mazur, Milad Cheraghi | 2021-09-04 | 2025-12-05 | a7af2487-9c2f-42e4-9bb9-ff961f0561d5 | ||||
Detects audio capture via PowerShell Cmdlet. | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) | 2019-10-24 | 2023-04-06 | 932fb0d8-692b-4b0f-a26e-5643a50fe7d6 | ||||
Detect attacker collecting audio via SoundRecorder application. | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | E.M. Anhaus (originally from Atomic Blue Detections, Endgame), oscd.community | 2019-10-24 | 2021-11-27 | 83865853-59aa-449e-9600-74b9d89a6d6e | ||||
Detects DNS queries for the malicious C2 domain associated with the plain-crypto-js/Axios npm package supply chain compromise. (...) | Emerging | experimental | dns | - | - | - | high | Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems) | 2026-04-01 | — | 73e5d24f-493f-4092-bd2f-c72cabda40ee | ||||
Detects backup catalog deletions | Generic | test | - | windows | WinEventLog Application | - | medium | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom U. @c_APT_ure (collection) | 2017-05-12 | 2022-12-25 | 9703792d-fd9a-456d-a672-ff92efe4806a | ||||
Detects Bitsadmin connections to IP addresses instead of FQDN names | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2022-06-10 | 2022-08-24 | 8ccd35a2-1c7c-468b-b568-ac6cdf80eec3 | ||||
Detects Bitsadmin connections to domains with uncommon TLDs | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tim Shelton | 2019-03-07 | 2026-09-30 | 9eb68894-7476-4cd6-8752-23b51f5883a7 | ||||
Detects HTTP request used by Chafer malware to receive data from its C2. | Emerging | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2019-01-31 | 2024-02-15 | fb502828-2db0-438e-93e6-801c7548686d | ||||
Adversaries may communicate using application layer protocols associated with web traffic to avoid detection/network filtering by blending in with existing traffic. (...) | Generic | test | ps_script | windows | PowerShell | - | medium | frack113 | 2022-01-23 | 2025-07-18 | d4488827-73af-4f8d-9244-7b7662ef046e | ||||
See what files are being deleted from flash file systems | Generic | test | authentication | - | Cisco AAA · Cisco | - | medium | Austin Clark | 2019-08-12 | 2023-01-04 | 71d65515-c436-43c0-841b-236b1f32c21e | - | |||
Splunk | This analytic detects the usage of the Utility osascript on a macOS device initiated a network connection lasting longer than 10 minutes (600 seconds). (...) | Anomaly | stable | network_connection | - | Cisco NVM · Cisco | - | medium | Radka Viskova, Splunk | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-22 | 6bc88a9d-f7de-4257-b526-acf15bc5a517 | |||
Splunk | This analytic detects attempts to access proxy-evasion or anonymizer services using Cisco Secure Access DNS and secure web proxy telemetry. (...) | Anomaly | stable | network_device | - | Cisco | - | medium | Mahamudul Chowdhury, Bhavin Patel, Splunk | 2026-05-06 | 2026-06-09 | a7c8613a-92e2-4232-b64d-bd39d33dee8b | |||
Splunk | The following analytic detects the use of known suspicious SSL certificates in any observed event where the SSL_CertFingerprint field is present. (...) | Generic | stable | firewall | - | Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk | 2025-04-03 | 2026-09-22 | c43f7b49-2dab-4e76-892e-7f971c2f20f1 | |||
Splunk | The following analytic detects outbound connections to commonly abused file sharing and pastebin-style hosting domains. (...) | Anomaly | stable | firewall | - | Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk | 2025-04-03 | 2026-05-13 | f7e5e792-d907-46c1-a58e-4ff974dc462a | |||
Splunk | The following analytic detects connections with a high Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) threat confidence score, indicating potentially malicious behavior within encrypted traffic. (...) | Anomaly | stable | firewall | - | Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk | 2025-04-03 | 2026-05-13 | 8c15183e-2e70-4db4-86c3-88f8d9129b66 | |||
Splunk | The following analytic detects outbound connections initiated by command-line tools such as curl or wget. (...) | Anomaly | stable | firewall | - | Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk | 2025-04-03 | 2026-05-13 | 173a1cb9-1814-4128-a9dc-f29dade89957 | |||
Splunk | The following analytic detects the execution of `cipher.exe` with the `/w` flag to clear unallocated sectors on a disk. (...) | Generic | stable | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike | - | medium | Teoderick Contreras, Splunk | 2021-06-10 | 2026-05-13 | cd80a6ac-c9d9-11eb-8839-acde48001122 | |||
Detects access to clipboard content via osascript, which may be used for data collection but also oc (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | macos | - | - | medium | Sohan G (D4rkCiph3r) | 2023-01-31 | 2026-05-22 | 7794fa3c-edea-4cff-bec7-267dd4770fd7 | ||||
Detects attempts to collect image data stored in the clipboard from users with the usage of xclip tool. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | linux | Linux Auditd | - | low | Pawel Mazur | 2021-10-01 | 2022-10-09 | f200dc3f-b219-425d-a17e-c38467364816 | ||||
Detects attempts to collect data stored in the clipboard from users with the usage of xclip tool. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | linux | Sysmon | - | low | Pawel Mazur, Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research), MSTIC | 2021-10-15 | 2022-09-15 | ec127035-a636-4b9a-8555-0efd4e59f316 | ||||
Detects attempts to collect data stored in the clipboard from users with the usage of xclip tool. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | linux | Linux Auditd | - | low | Pawel Mazur | 2021-09-24 | 2022-11-26 | 214e7e6c-f21b-47ff-bb6f-551b2d143fcf | ||||
Detects execution of the "pbpaste" utility, which retrieves the contents of the clipboard (a.k.a. (...) | Hunting | test | process_creation | macos | - | - | medium | Daniel Cortez | 2024-07-30 | — | d8af0da1-2959-40f9-a3e4-37a6aa1228b7 | ||||
Detects DNS requests to Cloudflared tunnels domains. (...) | Generic | test | dns | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems) | 2023-12-20 | — | a1d9eec5-33b2-4177-8d24-27fe754d0812 | ||||
Detects Turla ComRAT network communication. | Emerging | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2020-05-26 | 2024-02-26 | 7857f021-007f-4928-8b2c-7aedbe64bb82 | ||||
Detects suspicious user agent strings used by crypto miners in proxy logs | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2019-10-21 | 2021-11-27 | fa935401-513b-467b-81f4-f9e77aa0dd78 | ||||
Detects execution of curl.exe with custom useragent options | Hunting | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | frack113 | 2022-01-23 | 2023-02-21 | 3286d37a-00fd-41c2-a624-a672dcd34e60 | ||||
Detects the execution of clip.exe in order to copy data to the clipboard. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | low | frack113 | 2021-07-27 | 2023-02-21 | ddeff553-5233-4ae9-bbab-d64d2bd634be | ||||
Detects execution of the builtin "rmdir" command in order to delete directories. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | low | frack113 | 2022-01-15 | 2023-03-07 | 41ca393d-538c-408a-ac27-cf1e038be80c | ||||
Splunk | The following analytic detects modifications to the Windows registry that disable the display of hidden files. (...) | Anomaly | stable | registry_event | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick | 2021-03-31 | 2026-05-13 | 6f3ccfa2-91fe-11eb-8f9b-acde48001122 | |||
Detects modifications to the "Hidden" and "ShowSuperHidden" explorer registry values in order to disable showing of hidden files and system files. (...) | Generic | test | registry_set | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | frack113 | 2022-04-02 | 2024-03-26 | 5a5152f1-463f-436b-b2f5-8eceb3964b42 | ||||
Detects DNS queries initiated by "QuickAssist.exe" to Microsoft Quick Assist primary endpoint that is used to establish a session. | Generic | experimental | dns | windows | Sysmon | - | low | Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) | 2024-12-19 | — | 882e858a-3233-4ba8-855e-2f3d3575803d | ||||
Detects DNS query requests to Devtunnels domains. (...) | Generic | test | dns | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | citron_ninja | 2023-10-25 | 2023-11-20 | 1cb0c6ce-3d00-44fc-ab9c-6d6d577bf20b | ||||
Detects DNS query requests to Visual Studio Code tunnel domains. (...) | Generic | test | dns | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | citron_ninja | 2023-10-25 | 2023-11-20 | b3e6418f-7c7a-4fad-993a-93b65027a9f1 | ||||
Detects DNS queries to an ".onion" address related to Tor routing networks | Generic | test | dns | windows | Sysmon | - | high | frack113 | 2022-02-20 | 2025-09-12 | b55ca2a3-7cff-4dda-8bdd-c7bfa63bf544 | ||||
Detects suspicious user agent strings used by exploit / pentest frameworks like Metasploit in proxy (...) | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2017-07-08 | 2025-01-18 | fdd1bfb5-f60b-4a35-910e-f36ed3d0b32f | ||||
Detects the deletion of files by the Sysinternals SDelete utility. (...) | Generic | test | file_delete | windows | Sysmon | - | medium | Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research) | 2020-05-02 | 2023-02-15 | 6ddab845-b1b8-49c2-bbf7-1a11967f64bc | ||||
Detects file deletion using "rm", "shred" or "unlink" commands which are used often by adversaries t (...) | Generic | stable | process_creation | linux | Sysmon | - | informational | Ömer Günal, oscd.community | 2020-10-07 | 2022-09-15 | 30aed7b6-d2c1-4eaf-9382-b6bc43e50c57 | ||||
Detects execution of the builtin "del"/"erase" commands in order to delete files. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | low | frack113 | 2022-01-15 | 2024-03-05 | 379fa130-190e-4c3f-b7bc-6c8e834485f3 | ||||
Detects execution of the "del" builtin command to remove files using greedy/wildcard expression. (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | frack113 , X__Junior (Nextron Systems) | 2021-12-02 | 2023-09-11 | 204b17ae-4007-471b-917b-b917b315c5db | ||||
Detects Baby Shark C2 Framework default communication patterns | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | critical | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2021-06-09 | 2024-02-15 | 304810ed-8853-437f-9e36-c4975c3dfd7e | ||||
Detects cobalt strike malleable profiles patterns (URI, User-Agents, Methods). | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Markus Neis, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2024-02-15 | — | f3f21ce1-cdef-4bfc-8328-ed2e826f5fac | ||||
Detects user agent and URI paths used by empire agents | Generic | test | proxy | - | - | - | high | Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) | 2020-07-13 | 2024-02-26 | b923f7d6-ac89-4a50-a71a-89fb846b4aa8 | ||||
Detects adversary creating hidden file or directory, by detecting directories or files with . (...) | Generic | test | process_creation | linux | Linux Auditd | - | low | Pawel Mazur | 2021-09-06 | 2025-06-16 | d08722cd-3d09-449a-80b4-83ea2d9d4616 | ||||
Detects usage of attrib.exe to hide files from users. | Generic | test | process_creation | windows | Sysmon · WinEventLog Security | - | medium | Sami Ruohonen | 2019-01-16 | 2023-03-14 | 4281cb20-2994-4580-aa63-c8b86d019934 | ||||
Splunk | This Splunk query analyzes web logs to identify and categorize user agents, detecting various types of c2 frameworks. (...) | Generic | stable | webserver | - | Suricata | - | medium | Ravent Tait, Splunk | 2026-01-06 | 2026-09-22 | 229dc225-6abe-4d28-89fd-edf874086162 |
42nd percentile · 58% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more atomic tests per technique.
54% of the population shares a single value across only 11 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
17th percentile · 83% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more mitigations per technique.
5 of 8 axes carry an honest rank on this page. Coverage medians are taken across this malware’s 9 Enterprise techniques.
Technique Campaign use over its cumulative rule count.