// MITRE ATT&CK

T1546.014 · Emond

🎯 Privilege Escalation macOS Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1546 · Event Triggered Execution.

Adversaries may gain persistence and elevate privileges by executing malicious content triggered by the Event Monitor Daemon (emond). Emond is a [Launch Daemon](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1543/004) that accepts events from various services, runs them through a simple rules engine, and take...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting Emond 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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