Attempt to Mount SMB Share via Command Lineedit

Identifies the execution of macOS built-in commands to mount a Server Message Block (SMB) network share. Adversaries may use valid accounts to interact with a remote network share using SMB.

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
  • Lateral Movement

Version: 100 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.12.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.5.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guideedit


Rule queryedit

process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and (
process.name : "mount_smbfs" or (process.name : "open" and
process.args : "smb://*") or (process.name : "mount" and
process.args : "smbfs") or (process.name : "osascript" and
process.command_line : "osascript*mount volume*smb://*") ) and not
process.parent.executable : "/Applications/Google
Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Drive"

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

Version 100 (8.5.0 release)
  • Formatting only
Version 4 (8.4.0 release)
  • Updated query, changed from:

    process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and (
    process.name : "mount_smbfs" or (process.name : "open" and
    process.args : "smb://*") or (process.name : "mount" and
    process.args : "smbfs") or (process.name : "osascript" and
    process.command_line : "osascript*mount volume*smb://*") )
Version 2 (8.2.0 release)
  • Formatting only