Suspicious Credentials from Password Stores - Keychain (via process_creation)
This rule detects passwords dumps from Keychain
SigmamediummacOSv1
sigma
suspicious-credentials-from-password-stores-keychain-via-process-creation
title: Suspicious Credentials from Password Stores - Keychain (via process_creation)
id: bc2906df-5534-5f60-aaa1-3f1c2cb2ecc3
status: stable
description: This rule detects passwords dumps from Keychain
references:
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1555/001/
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1555.001/T1555.001.md
- https://gist.github.com/Capybara/6228955
author: Huntrule Team
date: 2026-04-14
tags:
- attack.credential-access
- attack.t1555.001
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: macos
detection:
selection1:
Image: '/usr/bin/security'
CommandLine|contains:
- 'find-certificate'
- ' export '
selection2:
CommandLine|contains:
- ' dump-keychain '
- ' login-keychain '
condition: 1 of selection*
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: medium
Known false positives
- Unknown
Detection content is published as a reviewed draft. Tune thresholds and exclusions against your own telemetry before enabling this rule for alerting.