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dmXProtect: Stop, Drop, Shut Malware Down

2023-06-28 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

6 predictions
T1553.001Gatekeeper Bypass
96%
“on textual or binary patterns. ” this allows users — and in this case, apple — to not look for malware based solely on its hash or developer id, but instead to search for commonalities across malware. this means if malware changes its developer credentials or bundle identifier, y…”
T1553.001Gatekeeper Bypass
96%
“end users safe. two of those tools are changing rapidly, and i also think they ’ re valuable and interesting enough to get a whole blog dedicated to them. those two products are xprotect and xprotect remediator ( xpr ). much of the information below was also presented at the macd…”
T1553.001Gatekeeper Bypass
90%
“contains just two columns, one listing the developer id of malicious software. within this table, we have 132 unique team ids ( also referred to as ‘ developer ids ). this table is only referenced by gatekeeper, so if the quarantine flag has been marked as safe ( or allowed ), th…”
T1543.001Launch Agent
84%
“##ect. plist. as we can see below, via the description key, xprotect here is looking to block the bundlore malware. in this case, it looks for the lsitemcontenttype of ‘ application bundle ’. legacyentitlementallowlist. plist the legacyentitlementallowlist is a little bit of an e…”
T1654Log Enumeration
78%
“knowledge about xprotect and xpr. on the flip side, the information that these two es events return is lacking thus far. it provides us with a path to where it was detected, the malware name ( via the xprotect. yara rule name ), and that ’ s about the extent of the context. howev…”
T1546.015Component Object Model Hijacking
31%
“##r ) is actively replacing the malware removal tool ( mrt ) and is now apple ’ s de facto remediation tool. we won ’ t touch on mrt, but you can find more information in our built - in macos security tools blog. xpr is an application bundle ( xprotect. app ) that lives next to t…”

Summary

Do you need third-party security for macOS? Discover if Apple’s malware prevention products, XProtect and XProtect Remediator, are good enough solutions to keep users safe.