{'created': '2017-12-14T16:46:06.044Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'MacOS provides the option to list specific applications to '
                'run when a user logs in. These applications run under the '
                "logged in user's context, and will be started every time the "
                'user logs in. Login items installed using the Service '
                'Management Framework are not visible in the System '
                'Preferences and can only be removed by the application that '
                'created them (Citation: Adding Login Items). Users have '
                'direct control over login items installed using a shared file '
                'list which are also visible in System Preferences (Citation: '
                'Adding Login Items). These login items are stored in the '
                "user's <code>~/Library/Preferences/</code> directory in a "
                'plist file called <code>com.apple.loginitems.plist</code> '
                '(Citation: Methods of Mac Malware Persistence). Some of these '
                'applications can open visible dialogs to the user, but they '
                'don’t all have to since there is an option to ‘Hide’ the '
                'window. If an adversary can register their own login item or '
                'modified an existing one, then they can use it to execute '
                'their code for a persistence mechanism each time the user '
                'logs in (Citation: Malware Persistence on OS X) (Citation: '
                'OSX.Dok Malware). The API method <code> SMLoginItemSetEnabled '
                '</code> can be used to set Login Items, but scripting '
                'languages like '
                '[AppleScript](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1155) can '
                'do this as well  (Citation: Adding Login Items).',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1162',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1162'},
                         {'description': 'Apple. (2016, September 13). Adding '
                                         'Login Items. Retrieved July 11, '
                                         '2017.',
                          'source_name': 'Adding Login Items',
                          'url': 'https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLoginItems.html'},
                         {'description': 'Patrick Wardle. (2014, September). '
                                         'Methods of Malware Persistence on '
                                         'Mac OS X. Retrieved July 5, 2017.',
                          'source_name': 'Methods of Mac Malware Persistence',
                          'url': 'https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference/vb2014/VB2014-Wardle.pdf'},
                         {'description': 'Patrick Wardle. (2015). Malware '
                                         'Persistence on OS X Yosemite. '
                                         'Retrieved July 10, 2017.',
                          'source_name': 'Malware Persistence on OS X',
                          'url': 'https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference/vb2014/VB2014-Wardle.pdf'},
                         {'description': 'Thomas Reed. (2017, July 7). New '
                                         'OSX.Dok malware intercepts web '
                                         'traffic. Retrieved July 10, 2017.',
                          'source_name': 'OSX.Dok Malware',
                          'url': 'https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/04/new-osx-dok-malware-intercepts-web-traffic/'},
                         {'external_id': 'CAPEC-564',
                          'source_name': 'capec',
                          'url': 'https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/564.html'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--36675cd3-fe00-454c-8516-aebecacbe9d9',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'persistence'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:48:38.718Z',
 'name': 'Login Item',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': True,
 'spec_version': '2.1',
 'type': 'attack-pattern',
 'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
 'x_mitre_deprecated': False,
 'x_mitre_detection': '',
 'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
 'x_mitre_is_subtechnique': False,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['macOS'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.1'}