macOS Red Teaming

DarwinOps

Your all-in-one macOS red team toolkit. Recon, initial acces, exploit, persist, all in one place.

A comprehensive macOS RedTeam toolkit supporting 14+ initial access formats (APP, PKG, DMG, MACHO, DYLIB, JXA, VSIX and more) with trojan injection and Gatekeeper bypass. It offers multi-layer evasion against both Apple and EDR solutions through obfuscation, in-memory execution, and binary string replacement. Advanced Dylib persistence, implant hardening, and ready-to-use multi-language pentest templates complete the full attack chain.

€1,490 / year per user · Volume discounts available

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What DarwinOps Does

DarwinOps is the macOS-specific tool in the BallisKit suite. It addresses a consistent gap in red team tooling: Windows coverage is deep and mature, macOS coverage is thin or nonexistent.

The problem is real. Enterprise environments are heterogeneous. Financial institutions, technology companies, and professional services firms (all TIBER-EU sectors) run significant macOS deployments, often including senior leadership and finance teams on Apple hardware. Assessments that skip macOS are incomplete by definition.

DarwinOps covers the macOS kill chain from initial access through persistence, with evasion built for the specific EDR products deployed in enterprise Apple environments.

Features Overview

DarwinOps features by category
Category	Features
Initial Access	14+ formats: APP, PKG, DMG, MACHO, DYLIB, JXA, VSIX, NPM, PLIST and more
Phishing	DMG phishing profiles with Gatekeeper bypass
Evasion	XOR obfuscation, variable renaming, in-memory execution, binary string replacement, auto-bypass mode
Persistence	Dylib scanning & hijacking, proxying, LaunchAgent, multiple built-in persistence methods
C2 Frameworks	Apfell/Mythic JXA hardening, EDR static analysis bypass, bundle ID spoofing, dock concealment
Architecture	arm64, x86_64, x86_64h — native Apple Silicon and Intel support

Key Capabilities

Initial Access

.app bundle generation

Fully configurable APP bundles with custom icon, bundle ID, metadata, and --no-dock to suppress Dock visibility during execution

PKG installer

Pre/post-install script support, custom install destination, optional elevation and distribution configuration

DMG container

Phishing profiles, custom volume name, Gatekeeper bypass via MOTW quarantine tag suppression, decoy file embedding

Mach-O & DYLIB

Native binary generation with architecture targeting (arm64, x86_64, x86_64h) and EDR string replacement

JXA & AppleScript

Script-based payloads with phishing headers, URL scheme delivery, and full obfuscation pipeline

VSIX (VSCode Extension)

Malicious extension generation with custom ID, publisher, version and optional Marketplace policy compliance

Multi-language support

Native macOS executable output for Apple Silicon and Intel targets

Evasion

Auto-bypass mode

--bypass flag automatically combines the best obfuscation and evasion options for the current payload and target

Bypass profiles

Load and reuse pre-configured evasion profiles across engagements with --bypass-profile for consistent, repeatable results

String obfuscation

XOR-based string encryption with a random key at build time, decrypted at runtime to defeat static analysis

Execution constraints

Domain restriction, expiry date (--expire) and start date (--start-date) to limit payload activation to the target window

In-memory execution

base64-encodes the payload and executes it entirely from memory, leaving no artifact on disk

Templates & Scenarios

SHELLCODE

Embed and execute raw shellcode directly into native macOS formats (MACHO, DYLIB, Python)

LOAD_REMOTE_JXA/BASH/APPLESCRIPT

Download and execute remote code in-memory via eval() across all three macOS scripting runtimes

EMBED_RUN/DROP

Drop and execute a staged payload to a configurable path with multiple embed methods

AUTO_DYLIB_INJECT

Automatically scan, identify and inject a dylib into vulnerable applications, with aggressive mode to maximize execution coverage

ENUM_BINARY_INJECT

Recursively scan the filesystem for binaries vulnerable to dylib injection from a configurable search path

EDR Bypass Profiles

Pre-built, production-tested profiles for major EDRs and Antivirus. Select a profile for your target environment and DarwinOps applies the appropriate bypass chain automatically.

Per-target profiles

Each profile is tuned to the specific detection logic of the target EDR, not a generic bypass.

Profile combinations

Profiles combines format, execution method, and evasion technique for common engagement scenarios.

Profile updates

Profiles are updated as EDR vendors release new detection improvements. Licenses include regular profile updates.

Understanding the macOS Security Architecture

Endpoint Security Framework (ESF)

Apple's official mechanism for security product visibility. EDRs subscribe to ESF events (process execution, file creation, network connections) to monitor endpoint behavior. DarwinOps includes techniques for reducing ESF visibility - suppressing event generation or operating below ESF detection thresholds.

Transparency Consent Control (TCC)

TCC governs access to sensitive macOS resources (camera, microphone, contacts, full disk access). Enterprise deployments often grant MDM-managed TCC permissions that can be abused. DarwinOps includes TCC bypass techniques targeting both user-context TCC and MDM-provisioned TCC grants.

Gatekeeper and Notarization

macOS Gatekeeper enforces code signing and notarization requirements. DarwinOps payload generation handles signing-compatible output and includes techniques for operating in environments with strict Gatekeeper enforcement.

MITRE ATT&CK Technique Coverage

DarwinOps reproduces documented macOS threat actor TTPs with precision. Each delivery format and post-exploitation technique maps to specific ATT&CK IDs - enabling scenario accuracy verification against Threat Intelligence Reports in TIBER-EU and equivalent intelligence-led engagements.

T1566

Phishing

DMG phishing profiles with decoy file embedding for social engineering delivery

T1204.002

Malicious File

User-executed .app, DMG, PKG, VSIX and NPM payloads

T1059.002

AppleScript / JXA

JXA and AppleScript execution with remote code loading support

T1059.004

Unix Shell

Bash-based payload generation and remote execution

T1056.002

GUI Input Capture

Fake system dialogs and privilege prompts for credential capture

T1548.004

Elevated Execution with Prompt

PKG-based elevation and fake UI prompts to escalate to root

T1543.001

Launch Agent

LaunchAgent plist-based persistence with configurable identifiers

T1543.004

Launch Daemon

System-level persistence with privilege escalation support

T1027

Obfuscated Files or Information

XOR encryption, variable renaming, and dummy code injection to evade static analysis

T1620

Reflective Code Loading

In-memory payload execution leaving no artifact on disk

T1553.001

Gatekeeper Bypass

DMG containers crafted to suppress quarantine tag propagation

T1628.003

Hidden Window

Suppresses Dock visibility during payload execution

T1119

Automated Collection

System information collection and exfiltration with encoding support

T1574.004

Dylib Hijacking

Automated scanning of vulnerable applications and dylib injection for persistent code execution

T1574.004.

Dylib Injection Enumeration

Recursive filesystem scan to identify binaries vulnerable to dylib injection

Technique coverage is used by red teams to verify scenario accuracy against Threat Intelligence Reports in TIBER-EU and intelligence-led red team programs globally.

TIBER-EU

DarwinOps for TIBER-EU macOS Coverage

TIBER-EU engagements at European financial institutions increasingly require macOS coverage. Modern threat actors targeting the financial sector specifically target macOS devices used by senior staff, treasury, and executive leadership. An engagement that does not include macOS in scope is not fully representative of the threat. DarwinOps provides the macOS offensive capability that makes complete TIBER-EU scope coverage executable.

Learn how BallisKit supports TIBER-EU