Elastic medium stable eql

Suspicious Automator Workflows Execution

Identifies the execution of the Automator Workflows process followed by a network connection from it's XPC service. Adversaries may drop a custom workflow template that hosts malicious JavaScript for Automation (JXA) code as an alternative to using osascript.

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Detection Logic

sequence by host.id, process.entity_id with maxspan=15s
 [process where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.name == "Automator"]
 [network where host.os.type == "macos"]

Field Validations

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