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To virtualise macOS you have a few options, the easiest one is if you’re working on a Macbook you can install virtualisation software such as VMware Fusion, or Parallels. In order for us to test malware we need to have a virtual environment where we can launch malicious samples.

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This is something that we are trying to change with this series which has multiple goals, first explain the threats to macOS leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework and second empower security teams with information on how to find traces of attacks based on real malware samples. However it seems there is a lot less resources available for security analysts and incident responders compared to Windows for instance. Even thought there have been some very interesting attacks agains macOS by threat actors categorised as advanced. With the growing popularity of macOS in enterprise as reported by Computerworld it is a matter of time before we will see more interest from cyber criminals in macOS. It is the second most popular operating system after Windows. IntroductionĪccording to the latest statistics from statcounter, Apple macOS accounts for more than 16% of desktops. If you want to read other parts of this series take a look at the table that will be updated as the series progresses. Next up we show the techniques for the MITRE phases ‘Initial access’ and ‘Execution’. In this post you will find an introduction for this blog series, the way we have setup our test environment. That last part will be done by either running real malware samples in our lab environment or using adversary emulation. StructureĪs for the structure of the series, for each MITRE phase we will discuss the relevant (sub)techniques and the operating system artefacts generated when a threat actor leverages a certain technique. You can find the MITRE layer on our GitHub, together with a mindmap based on the (sub)techniques relevant to this series. That leaves us with about 50 (sub)techniques. For the purpose of this series we will filter on (sub)techniques that are unique to macOS and where we have seen actual threat actors using the (sub)techniques. If we filter on macOS techniques there are 151 techniques. In this series we will be covering the multiple stages of attacks using the MITRE ATT&CK framework for macOS. Welcome to the first part of our new series on responding to macOS attacks.