Suspicious Curl to Jamf Endpoint

Last updated 12 days ago on 2026-01-30
Created 12 days ago on 2026-01-30

About

Detects curl requests to JAMF Pro endpoints from suspicious processes like unsigned binaries or scripting interpreters. This indicates potential abuse of stolen JAMF credentials for lateral movement in enterprise macOS environments.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Lateral MovementTactic: ExecutionData Source: Elastic DefendLanguage: eql
Severity
high
Risk Score
73
MITRE ATT&CK™

Lateral Movement (TA0008)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Execution (TA0002)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.process-*
Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
process where host.os.type == "macos" and event.type == "start" and event.action == "exec" and process.name in ("curl", "nscurl") and process.command_line like "*https://jamf.*" and ((process.parent.code_signature.exists == false or process.parent.code_signature.trusted == false) or process.parent.name in ("osascript", "node", "perl", "ruby") or process.parent.name like "python*")

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Suspicious Curl to Jamf Endpoint in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).