Suspicious Credentials from Password Stores - Keychain (via process_creation)

This rule detects passwords dumps from Keychain

SigmamediummacOSv1
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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.