Elevated Execution with Prompt
Subtechnique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1548.004
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"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1548.004",
"title": "Elevated Execution with Prompt",
"type": "Subtechnique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1548/004",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--b84903f0-c7d5-435d-a69e-de47cc3578c0",
"external_id": "T1548.004",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-01-30T14:40:20.187Z",
"modified": "2026-05-12T15:12:00.709Z",
"version": "2.0",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"privilege-escalation"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "AppleDocs AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges",
"url": "https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/1540038-authorizationexecutewithprivileg"
},
{
"source_name": "Carbon Black Shlayer Feb 2019",
"url": "https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2020/02/vmware-carbon-black-tau-threat-analysis-shlayer-macos.html"
},
{
"source_name": "Death by 1000 installers; it's all broken!",
"url": "https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/defcon-2017-death-by-1000-installers-its-all-broken?slide=8"
},
{
"source_name": "OSX Coldroot RAT",
"url": "https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x2A.html"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:M1038 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1548.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--362b2f10-f599-4663-9cff-27932e11935a
ATTACK:enterprise:T1548.004 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1548
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--ac53cb36-9471-4ea0-8316-42d97f84956f
ATTACK:enterprise:S0402 → uses → ATTACK:enterprise:T1548.004
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--c9d727db-88ac-4729-bf8a-98d99a83534d
Carbon Black Shlayer Feb 2019