Startup_items

osquery
Retrieve most programs that are part of a systems startup (multi-platform)
Author

Chainguard

Published

January 29, 2025

Description

ODK (osquery-defense-kit) is unique in that the queries are designed to be used as part of a production detection & response pipeline. The detection queries are formulated to return zero rows during normal expected behavior, so that they may be configured to generate alerts when rows are returned.

Query

-- Retrieve most programs that are part of a systems startup (multi-platform)
--
-- tags: postmortem
SELECT
  *
FROM
  startup_items;

tags: SStagSS

Reference

https://github.com/chainguard-dev/osquery-defense-kit