persistence_modification_sublime_app_plugin_or_script.toml

[metadata]
creation_date = "2020/12/23"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2022/03/31"

[rule]
author = ["Elastic"]
description = """
Adversaries may create or modify the Sublime application plugins or scripts to execute a malicious payload each time the
Sublime application is started.
"""
from = "now-9m"
index = ["auditbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Sublime Plugin or Application Script Modification"
note = """## Config

If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
"""
references = ["https://posts.specterops.io/persistent-jxa-66e1c3cd1cf5"]
risk_score = 21
rule_id = "88817a33-60d3-411f-ba79-7c905d865b2a"
severity = "low"
tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "macOS", "Threat Detection", "Persistence"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"

query = '''
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/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DesktopServicesHelper", 
      "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/plugin_host"
    )
'''


[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1554"
name = "Compromise Client Software Binary"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1554/"


[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0003"
name = "Persistence"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/"