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| | LaunchDaemon (or LaunchAgent) Hijacking is a MacOS privilege escalation and persistence technique. It involves abusing insecure file/folder permissions to replace legitimately installed, misconfigured LaunchDaemons with malicious code. I first spotted this issue affecting the OSQuery installer but went looking and found multiple other products with the same problem. This isn't a novel technique (it's briefly mentioned in T1543.004) but I was surprised to find it so rarely talked about. Example - Hijacking the OSQuery LaunchDaemon ?? I've already disclosed this issue to the OSQuery team and they kindly let me use it as an example in this post.
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| macOS ships with postfix but it is in a semi-disabled state. The launch daemon configuration provided doesn't work and postfix will immediately exit What I want is a working local MTA that forwards mail securely to a smarthost for delivery. This is mostly useful when building and testing scripts and server applications that need to...