Unexpected Mounts

osquery
Detect weird mounts, like mounting the EFI partition
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

-- Detect weird mounts, like mounting the EFI partition
--
-- references:
--   * https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/07/19/i-see-what-you-did-there-look-cloudmensis-macos-spyware/
--
-- platform: darwin
-- tags: transient filesystem state
SELECT
  *
FROM
  mounts
WHERE
  device = '/dev/disk0s1'
  AND type = 'msdos';

tags: SStagSS

Reference

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