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T1548.004 · Elevated Execution with Prompt

🎯 Privilege Escalation macOS Sub-technique

Sub-technique of T1548 · Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism.

Adversaries may leverage the AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges API to escalate privileges by prompting the user for credentials.(Citation: AppleDocs AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges) The purpose of this API is to give application developers an easy way to perform operations with root...

How to detect & mitigate it

Detecting Elevated Execution with Prompt 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.

Related techniques

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