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T1546.006 · LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition

🎯 Privilege Escalation macOS Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1546 · Event Triggered Execution.

Adversaries may establish persistence by executing malicious content triggered by the execution of tainted binaries. Mach-O binaries have a series of headers that are used to perform certain operations when a binary is loaded. The LC_LOAD_DYLIB header in a Mach-O binary tells macOS and OS X which dy...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting LC_LOAD_DYLIB Addition starts with your SIEM/EDR telemetry. Write a detection rule with the Sigma generator, analyze suspicious logs in the log analyzer, and place the technique on your coverage with the ATT&CK matrix.

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