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TechniquesT1027.015 › AN0784

AN0784 Analytic 0784

macOS · attack.mitre.org · ATT&CK Enterprise v19.2

<p>Identifies archive utilities (e.g., ditto, unzip, xar, pkgutil) used to extract payloads to non-standard paths, then correlates with execution or file permission changes (e.g., chmod +x) and process spawns from decompressed location.</p>
Detects
T1027.015 Compression
Part of
DET0281 Detection Strategy for Compressed Payload Creation and Execution

Log sources and channels

Exactly as MITRE states them in x_mitre_log_source_references. Where a channel is vague, it is vague in the source; kevmap does not tidy it.

Log sourceChannelData component
macos:unifiedlogProcess launchDC0032 Process Creation
macos:unifiedlogfilesystem eventsDC0059 File Metadata
fs:fsusagefile open/writeDC0039 File Creation

Mutable elements

Parameters MITRE marks as environment-specific. These are the knobs you are expected to tune; they are why an analytic is not a rule.

FieldDescription
DecompressionPathMatchTarget unusual extraction paths (~/Library/, /tmp/, /private/tmp/)
ToolBinaryNamesList of decompression utilities used in the environment
FollowOnExecutionDeltaTime between decompression and first binary execution