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Monitoring file modification events by Endpoint Security
Hello, My app needs to report whether a file, which is located on usb volume, is modified by specific application. I use Endpoint Security framework and I know about "Inferring High-Level Semantics from Low-Level Operations" problem. However, in spite of this limitation, I need to implement app which reports as much info as possible. I faced with some unclear behaviour of TestEdit. The scenario is: Open a file, which is located on usb volume, by TextEdit /dev/disk4s2 on /Volumes/USBVol (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners, noatime, fskit) Modify and save it Endpoint Security reports open and close events only (modified flag is false) ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_COPYFILE, ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_CLONE, ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_UTIMES and ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_WRITE are not reported by Endpoint Security (monitored all processes in system). (Looks like the same behaviour for Xcode) I am stuck in this moment. Are there any way to monitor file modification if user do it by TextEdit? Thank you in advance!
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Jan ’25
st_dev of mount point directory is different to device ID of device-file
I have NTFS which is mounted on '/Volumes/usb_vol' #mount Filesystem Mounted on /dev/disk5s1 /Volumes/usb_vol The following simple code reports different values of device Id for device-file and mount point directory struct stat buf; for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) { std::cout << argv[i] << std::endl; if (stat(argv[i], &buf) < 0) { continue; } if (S_ISBLK(buf.st_mode)) { std::cout << "st_rdev (" << major(buf.st_rdev) << "/" << minor(buf.st_rdev) << ") hex: " << std::hex << buf.st_rdev << std::endl; } else { std::cout << "st_dev (" << major(buf.st_dev) << "/" << minor(buf.st_dev) << ") hex: " << std::hex << buf.st_dev << std::endl; } } Output: /dev/disk5s1 st_rdev (1/22) hex: 1000016 /Volumes/usb_vol st_dev (48/119) hex: 30000077 I believe this is expected but I have not found any explanation of this behaviour. Are there any explanation of difference these values? I can assume the stat() will report (48/119) for all objects which are located on this file system. Is it correct? Thank you for the help!
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Dec ’24
Kernel sends SIGKILL to process which is subscribed on ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_OPEN
The kernel sends SIGKILL to application if it handles ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_OPEN and lldb is attached to this process. App: int main(int /*argc*/, char** /*argv*/) { es_client_t *pEpClient = nullptr; es_new_client_result_t result = es_new_client(&pEpClient, ^(es_client_t *pClient, const es_message_t *pMessage) { switch (pMessage->event_type) { case ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_OPEN: { uint32_t authorizedFlags = pMessage->event.open.fflag; if ((authorizedFlags & FREAD) || (authorizedFlags & FWRITE)) { std::filesystem::path filePath = std::string(pMessage->event.open.file->path.data, pMessage->event.open.file->path.length); std::string fileName = filePath.filename(); if (fileName == "test.txt") { std::cout << "blocked fileName: " << filePath.filename() << std::endl; authorizedFlags &= ~FWRITE; authorizedFlags &= ~FREAD; } } if (es_respond_flags_result(pClient, pMessage, authorizedFlags, false) != ES_RESPOND_RESULT_SUCCESS) { std::cout << "es_respond_flags_result() failed with error " << std::endl; } } break; default: break; } }); if (result != ES_NEW_CLIENT_RESULT_SUCCESS) { std::cout << "es_new_client() failed." << std::endl; return 1; } es_event_type_t eventsList[] = { ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_OPEN }; if (es_subscribe(pEpClient, eventsList, 1) == ES_RETURN_ERROR) { std::cout << "es_subscribe() failed." << std::endl; } // wait int i = 0; std::cin >> i; if (es_delete_client(pEpClient) == ES_RETURN_ERROR) { std::cout << "es_delete_client() failed." << std::endl; } return 0; } (lldb) process attach --pid 61127 .... (lldb) c Process 61127 resuming Process 61127 exited with status = 9 (0x00000009) Terminated due to signal 9 System log: Allowing set_exception_ports from [debugserver] on [ep_sample] for entitled process/debugger Client did not respond in appropriate amount of time (client pid: 61127), sent SIGKILL
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Oct ’24
WindowServer daemon crashes
The scenario is quite simple run an application which uses [SCShareableContent getShareableContentExcludingDesktopWindows] and invoke captureImageWithFilter in completionHandler. delay invoking captureImageWithFilter for several seconds and switch user session before call it. The WindowServer crashes if app runs in inactive session. How to manage this issue correctly? Are there any way to avoid this crash?
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Aug ’24
intercept network traffic via NETransparentProxyProvider
I need to intercept traffic (by port range) and need to have ability to modify it. If I understand correctly, the best way is to use NETransparentProxyProvider for this purpose. Is my understanding correct? I am trying to figure out how to make system extension (NETransparentProxyProvider) intercept the traffic. Unfortunately I have not found any description or example (similar to Network Filter). I am novice in Network Extension. Are there any guide, example or quick start how to implement app proxy? Thank you!
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Aug ’24
monitor input events
Hello, I need to monitor input events and convert keycode to symbol. E.g. convert kHIDUsage_KeyboardQ to symbol according to used keyboard layout. Are there any API to get current keyboard layout (language) in C++? If I understand correctly, the API TISGetInputSourceProperty() is deprecated. Are there any way to monitor keyboard layout changed? (some system notification in case of keyboard layout change) Are there any way to translate keycode to symbol except UCKeyTranslate() which is part of deprecated Unicode Utilities? Thank you in advance.
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Feb ’24