Suspicious osascript Spawning curl to High Port C2 via process_creation

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- T1071.001Web Protocols
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What it detects

This rule detects the macOS osascript interpreter spawning curl to reach an external host on port 8000. The axios supply chain payload used AppleScript to invoke curl against attacker infrastructure on this non-standard port, so this parent-child pattern indicates macOS command and control retrieval by the malicious package.

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Suspicious osascript Spawning curl to High Port C2 via process_creation

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