MacOS builds no longer run when with a quarantine attribute due to incorrect codesigning. Download a mac editor (2021.1.x for instance) 2. Once downloaded, build a mac player 3. Move mac player to a different mac and try to run. Xattr -p com.apple.quarantine /Users/user/dnscrypt-osxclient-1.0.12.dmg quarantine.attr xattr -w com.apple.quarantine '`cat quarantine.attr`' test.command This will apply the data gathered from the.dmg to the.command file - including download date and download app of the original dmg file. Considered to be one of the oldest government agencies, Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ) is the health authority and a line bureau of the Department of Health (DOH). BOQ is mandated to ensure security against the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, emerging diseases and public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC). The longtime deli/market/sweets shop has an excellent selection of breakfast sandwiches, panini, and burritos — and customers should make sure to make room for its popular ice cream, which always hits the spot. Limited delivery is available for those in West Seattle with a $50 minimum.

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I recently drew attention to the fact that, without a quarantine flag set on a download, it’s all too easy for malware to gain entry to a Mac, particularly if it’s running Mojave or earlier. This article looks in more detail at how setting the quarantine flag is controlled by apps and macOS, and explains how Apple mitigates this issue.

Although apps and other software can set and remove quarantine flags using explicit code, this is most usually left to a setting in the Info.plist property list which every app is required to contain. The entry there which controls flag behaviour is named LSFileQuarantineEnabled, and you can inspect this in each app to check what should happen when that app creates a new file, for example when downloading something from the Internet. When this is set to true, every new file created by that app should have the quarantine flag set; when false, they won’t unless macOS overrides that behaviour. If an unsandboxed app’s Info.plist doesn’t set LSFileQuarantineEnabled explicitly, then the default is not to set the quarantine flag.

You can of course edit an app’s Info.plist, but in doing so will break its signature. You may be able to get away with this for the time being, particularly on older versions of macOS, but it generally isn’t a wise choice.

macOS also provides a set of overrides to what appears in the Info.plist of many apps. These are listed in the Additions item in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist.

The Exceptions.plist property list contains five dictionaries:

• Additions, which assigns a lot of app categories, sets Java version requirements, and determines default settings for quarantine on documents created by apps.
• AppNapOverrides, which sets App Nap behaviours.
• HighResolutionOverrides, which overrides High Res options for apps.
• LaunchOverrides, which can disable specific version ranges of apps from being launched; these prevent many older apps from being run.
• MergeDocumentTypes, which merges some document types such as doc and docx for specific apps.
• Overrides, which can override other settings.

For example, the entry in the Additions dictionary for the popular BitTorrent client Transmission reads:
<key>org.m0k.transmission</key>
<dict>
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public-category.internet</string>
<key>LSFileQuarantineEnabled</key>
<true/>
</dict>

Referring to the app by its ID of org.m0k.transmission, that first assigns the app to an app category of public-category.internet, and then sets the app to set the quarantine flag on all documents that it creates, including everything that it downloads.

Among the existing overrides in Catalina, for example, are org.pythonmac.unspecified.BitTorrent and org.xlife.Xtorrent, which ensures that Transmission, Xtorrent and PythonMac BitTorrent clients should write quarantine flags to all their downloaded files. Although this Exceptions property list doesn’t cover every client, it should ensure that most do protect their downloads with quarantine flags.

There are two snags to this otherwise protective system: first, the file containing these overrides is protected, in Catalina being on the System volume, so the user is effectively prevented from changing it. Unlike app preferences, which can be managed by the user at the command line, there’s no way for the user to add their own overrides. If you download items using an app which doesn’t itself require the quarantine flag to be set, and Apple doesn’t provide an override for it to do so, there doesn’t appear to be any good way to add that yourself.

It’s also unclear whether this system works with command tools, which are single file executables. They can have their Info.plist embedded in the executable, but this is rare unless they need to be notarized. For many users, it might be helpful, for example, if the standard tool curl were to set quarantine flags, as it’s often used to bypass quarantine and thus presents a significant vulnerability.

Finally, for some users at least, an app setting the quarantine flag isn’t of much use, as that user routinely strips the flag from downloads. If you do that, you’re steering into as much as danger as you would using an app which never sets them in the first place.

I’m enormously grateful to @rosyna who pointed me in the right direction, again.

Gatekeeper is a security feature of the macOSoperating system by Apple.^[1][2] It enforces code signing and verifies downloaded applications before allowing them to run, thereby reducing the likelihood of inadvertently executing malware. Gatekeeper builds upon File Quarantine, which was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard and expanded in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.^[3][4] The feature originated in version 10.7.3 of Mac OS X Lion as the command-line utilityspctl.^[5][6] A graphical user interface was added in OS X Mountain Lion and later also in version 10.7.5 of Lion.^[7]

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Functions[edit]

Configuration[edit]

In the security & privacy panel of System Preferences, the user has three options:

Mac App Store

Allows only applications downloaded from the Mac App Store to be launched.

Mac App Store and identified developers

Allows applications downloaded from the Mac App Store and applications signed by certified Apple developers to be launched. This is the default setting since Mountain Lion.

Anywhere

Allows all applications to be launched. This effectively turns Gatekeeper off. This is the default setting in Lion. Since macOS Sierra, this option is hidden by default.^[8][9]

However, this option can be re-enabled by using the 'sudo spctl --master-disable' command from the Terminal and authenticating with an admin password.

The command-line utility spctl provides granular controls, such as custom rules and individual or blanket permissions, as well as an option to turn Gatekeeper off.^[6]

Quarantine[edit]

Upon download of an application, a particular extended file attribute ('quarantine flag') can be added to the downloaded file.^[10] This attribute is added by the application that downloads the file, such as a web browser or email client, but is not usually added by common BitTorrent client software, such as Transmission, and application developers will need to implement this feature into their applications and is not implemented by the system. The system can also force this behavior upon individual applications using a signature-based system named Xprotect.^[11]

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Execution[edit]

When the user attempts to open an application with such an attribute, the system will postpone the execution and verify whether it is:

• blacklisted,
• code-signed by Apple or a certified developer,
• the code-signed contents still match the signature.

Since Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the system keeps two blacklists to identify known malware or insecure software. The blacklists are updated periodically. If the application is blacklisted, then File Quarantine will refuse to open it and recommend to the user to move it to trash.^[11][12]

Gatekeeper will refuse to open the application if the code-signing requirements are not met. Apple can revoke the developer's certificate with which the application was signed and prevent further distribution.^[1][3]

Once an application has passed File Quarantine or Gatekeeper, it will be allowed to run normally and will not be verified again.^[1][3]

Override[edit]

To override Gatekeeper, the user (acting as an administrator) either has to switch to a more lenient policy from the security & privacy panel of System Preferences or authorize a manual override for a particular application, either by opening the application from the context menu or by adding it with spctl.^[1]

Path randomization[edit]

Developers can sign disk images that can be verified as a unit by the system. In macOS Sierra, this allows developers to guarantee the integrity of all bundled files and prevent attackers from infecting and subsequently redistributing them. In addition, 'path randomization' executes application bundles from a random, hidden path and prevents them from accessing external files relative to their location. This feature is turned off if the application bundle originated from a signed installer package or disk image or if the user manually moved the application without any other files to another directory.^[8]

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Implications[edit]

The effectiveness and rationale of Gatekeeper in combating malware have been acknowledged,^[3] but been met with reservations. Security researcher Chris Miller noted that Gatekeeper will verify the developer certificate and consult the known-malware list only when the application is first opened. Malware that already passed Gatekeeper will not be stopped.^[13] In addition, Gatekeeper will only verify applications that have the quarantine flag. As this flag is added by other applications and not by the system, any neglect or failure to do so does not trigger Gatekeeper. According to security blogger Thomas Reed, BitTorrent clients are frequent offenders of this. The flag is also not added if the application came from a different source, like network shares and USB flash drives.^[10][13] Questions have also been raised about the registration process to acquire a developer certificate and the prospect of certificate theft.^[14]

In September 2015, security researcher Patrick Wardle wrote about another shortcoming that concerns applications that are distributed with external files, such as libraries or even HTML files that can contain JavaScript.^[8] An attacker can manipulate those files and through them exploit a vulnerability in the signed application. The application and its external files can then be redistributed, while leaving the original signature of the application bundle itself intact. As Gatekeeper does not verify such individual files, the security can be compromised.^[15] With path randomization and signed disk images, Apple provided mechanisms to mitigate this issue in macOS Sierra.^[8]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'OS X: About Gatekeeper'. Apple. February 13, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
2. ^Siegler, MG (February 16, 2012). 'Surprise! OS X Mountain Lion Roars Into Existence (For Developers Today, Everyone This Summer)'. TechCrunch. AOL Inc. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
3. ^ ^abcdSiracusa, John (July 25, 2012). 'OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review'. Ars Technica. pp. 14–15. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
4. ^Reed, Thomas (April 25, 2014). 'Mac Malware Guide : How does Mac OS X protect me?'. The Safe Mac. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
5. ^Ullrich, Johannes (February 22, 2012). 'How to test OS X Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper in Lion'. Internet Storm Center. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
6. ^ ^ab'spctl(8)'. Mac Developer Library. Apple. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
7. ^'About the OS X Lion v10.7.5 Update'. Apple. February 13, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
8. ^ ^abcd'What's New in Security'. Apple Developer (Video). June 15, 2016. At 21:45. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
9. ^Cunningham, Andrew (June 15, 2016). 'Some nerdy changes in macOS and iOS 10: RAW shooting, a harsher Gatekeeper, more'. Ars Technica UK. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
10. ^ ^abReed, Thomas (October 6, 2015). 'Bypassing Apple's Gatekeeper'. Malwarebytes Labs. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
11. ^ ^abMoren, Dan (August 26, 2009). 'Inside Snow Leopard's hidden malware protection'. Macworld. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
12. ^'About the 'Are you sure you want to open it?' alert (File Quarantine / Known Malware Detection) in OS X'. Apple Support. March 22, 2016. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
13. ^ ^abForesman, Chris (February 17, 2012). 'Mac developers: Gatekeeper is a concern, but still gives power users control'. Ars Technica. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
14. ^Chatterjee, Surojit (February 21, 2012). 'OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper: Can it Really Keep Malware Out?'. International Business Times. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
15. ^Goodin, Dan. 'Drop-dead simple exploit completely bypasses Mac's malware Gatekeeper'. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on March 20, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.