Sublime Plugin or Application Script Modificationedit

Adversaries may create or modify the Sublime application plugins or scripts to execute a malicious payload each time the Sublime application is started.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • macOS
  • Threat Detection
  • Persistence

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule queryedit

file where event.type in ("change", "creation") and file.extension :
"py" and file.path : ( "/Users/*/Library/Application
Support/Sublime Text*/Packages/*.py", "/Applications/Sublime
Text.app/Contents/MacOS/sublime.py" ) and not process.executable
: ( "/Applications/Sublime Text*.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime
Text*", "/usr/local/Cellar/git/*/bin/git",
"/usr/libexec/xpcproxy", "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Des
ktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DesktopServicesHelper"
, "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin_host"
)

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM