Suspicious Binary Padding - MacOS (via process_creation)

This rule detects threat actors may use binary padding to add junk data and change the on-disk representation of malware. This rule detect using dd and truncate to add a junk data to file.

SigmahighmacOSv1
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Known false positives

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Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.