Elastic Security Detection Rules

Potential macOS SSH Brute Force Detected

Last updated 7 months ago on 2025-01-15
Created 5 years ago on 2020-11-16

About

Identifies a high number (20) of macOS SSH KeyGen process executions from the same host. An adversary may attempt a brute force attack to obtain unauthorized access to user accounts.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: Credential AccessData Source: Elastic DefendLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Credential Access (TA0006)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Brute Force (T1110)(opens in a new tab or window)

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

Definition

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

endpoint(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.category:process and host.os.type:macos and event.type:start and process.name:"sshd-keygen-wrapper" and process.parent.name:launchd

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Potential macOS SSH Brute Force Detected 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(opens in a new tab or window).