macOSMonitor

macOSMonitor is the monitoring scripts for process and filesystem events. For simplicity, we only include two monitoring tools. Users can follow the instruction below to add their own tools.

Getting Started

Simply cloning the project.

git clone https://github.com/segnolin/macOSMonitor.git

Prerequisites

Scripts require Python 3.6+
Endpoint Security API requires macOS 10.15+

Install Tool Requirements

Go to the project directory.

cd macOSMonitor

Run the installation script.

python3 run.py --install

Monitoring

Run the monitoring script with root permission with the monitoring duration. (e.g. 10 seconds)

sudo python3 run.py --monitor --time 10

You will see the path of the log file as below after monitoring:

[*] Save as './logs/[Tool Name] [YYYY]-[mm]-[dd]T[HH]_[MM]_[SS]Z.json'

Documentation

This section shows to tweak and add the functionality of the monitoring tools.

Usage of macOSMonitor

usage: run.py [-h] [-i] [-m] [-t TIME]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --install         install requirements
  -m, --monitor         monitor process and file events
  -t TIME, --time TIME  set monitoring duration

Adding Tool

The procedure of adding tools consists of the following three parts. Each part is necessary for the tools to work properly.

Tool (or Dependency) Installation

The following properties of installation of tool (or dependency) can be found in requirements.json:

[
  {
    "name": string (Name of tool or dependency),
    "commands": array[string] (series of commands that install the tool or dependency),
  },
  ...
]

Tool Execution

The following properties of monitoring tool can be found in tools.json:

[
  {
    "name": string (Name of tool, and should be the same as the name of executable),
    "command": string (One line command to run the monitoring tool)
  },
  ...
]

Tool Output Parsing

Each monitoring tool should have its parsing script for output file consistency. The script should be written in Python 3.6+ with the file name [Name of tool].py inside ./modules folder. The parsing function prototype describes as below:

def parse(tmp_log_file):
  # parse the temporary log file and return the output as string
  return output_str

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