{"id":31420,"date":"2021-01-22T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31420"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:31:21","slug":"reversing-malicious-run-only-applescripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/22\/reversing-malicious-run-only-applescripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversing Malicious Run-Only AppleScripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.sentinelone.com\/fade-dead-adventures-in-reversing-malicious-run-only-applescripts\/\">Phil Stokes<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25794184\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickwardle\/status\/1351258881427574784\">Patrick Wardle<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/labs.sentinelone.com\/fade-dead-adventures-in-reversing-malicious-run-only-applescripts\/\"><p>macOS.OSAMiner has evolved to use a complex architecture, embedding one run-only AppleScript within another and retrieving further stages embedded in the source code of public-facing web pages.<\/p><p>Combining a public AppleScript disassembler repo with our own AEVT decompiler tool allowed us to statically reverse run-only AppleScripts for the first time and reveal previously unknown details about the campaign and the malware&rsquo;s architecture.<\/p><p>We have released our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/SentineLabs\/aevt_decompile\">AEVT decompiler<\/a> tool as open source to aid other researchers in the analysis of malicious run-only AppleScripts.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Stokes (Hacker News, Patrick Wardle): macOS.OSAMiner has evolved to use a complex architecture, embedding one run-only AppleScript within another and retrieving further stages embedded in the source code of public-facing web pages.Combining a public AppleScript disassembler repo with our own AEVT decompiler tool allowed us to statically reverse run-only AppleScripts for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-22T21:31:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"297fb7a5-fbf5-40bc-a92b-14e78c26e86e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-22T21:31:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKX-3pfv1QLypKxTnjCbobg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,30,1666,504,74,71],"class_list":["post-31420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-applescript","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-malware","tag-opensource","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31422,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420\/revisions\/31422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}