GateBreak

GateBreak is a blue team lab that falls under the Endpoint Forensics category and will cover the following subjects: Spotlight-Parser, unifiedlog_iterator, FSEParser, ios_apt, plist Editor, CSViewer, Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Defense Evasion, Collection, Command and Control.

Learning Objectives

Reconstruct a macOS attack timeline by correlating Unified Logs, FSEvents, and browser artifacts using macMRU.py and unifiedlog_iterator to identify initial access, Gatekeeper bypass, and persistence.

Categories: Endpoint Forensics.

MITRE ATT&CK Tactics: Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Defense Evasion, Collection, Command and Control.

Tools: CSViewer, FSEParser, Spotlight-Parser, ios_apt, unifiedlog_iterator, plist Editor.

Difficulty: hard.