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Living off the coding agent: Two tales of tunnels and LaunchAgents

Elasticsearch Security Labs
Elasticsearch Security Labs
Published August 7, 2026Original Report

Threat Actors

Excerpt

Coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor are vendor-signed, used all day on developer laptops, and routinely open shells, call APIs, edit files, and install helpers. That makes GenAI-adjacent alerts challenging to investigate. The parent looks trusted, while the children can still look a lot like classic high-severity activity. This article walks through one of those windows. On a macOS endpoint, Elastic Security endpoint telemetry showed shells under Claude Code that…

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Diamond Model

SOCIAL AXISTECHNOLOGY AXISADVERSARYTA0002INFRASTRUCTURElocalhost.runlhr.lifealocalhost.runCAPABILITYunknownVICTIMunknown
Adversary(1)
Infrastructure(3)
Capability
Victim

Indicators of Compromise

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4 indicators

TypeIndicatorConfidenceScoreFirst Seen
Domainlocalhost.runHighScore 58/100First seen
Domainlhr.lifeHighScore 58/100First seen
Domainalocalhost.runHighScore 58/100First seen
SHA256d335a47a04dde726897a2e753187e9f48fbf40616c48be3266954c7b9175a09eMediumScore 53/100First seen

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