Wouldn’t be set.” As a result, he added: “There would be no visual “Why? When an exploit downloads a file (versus the user), that bit User,” Wardle, who is chief research officer at Digita Security, toldĪrs. Have the quarantine bit set, no, they would not have protected the “In a nutshell, since XProtect and Gatekeeper only scan files that The reason: the file lackedĪ “quarantine” bit that’s only set when a user downloads the file from NetWire was installed through a privileged process tied to Firefox, theĮxploit was able to bypass both protections. Signed by a known developer before they can be installed. This is a protection that, by default, requires apps to be
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Have posed no threat to most Mac users, since the software would haveīeen blocked by default by both the built-in malware detector and Normally, an app that’s blacklisted by XProtect and unsigned should Wardle also noticed that the malware sample wasn’t digitally signed by Malware detectors hadn’t obtained a detection signature from Apple. MacOS, had been detecting the NetWire sample since 2016.
Strange, because XProtect, the barebones malware detector built into This Ars post went live, five out of 57 engines flagged it). Of what at the time was 53 available malware detectors (at the time The personĬlaimed to have been “involved with a cryptocurrency exchange untilįairly recently.” The hash of the malware matched one of the hashesĪmong the things Wardle noticed early on was that the VirusTotal service showed that the malware was detected by only one Up-to-date Mac through a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox. Of Mac malware that came from someone who claimed it infected his fully On Thursday, macOS security expert Patrick Wardle published an analysis
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