Netskope Threat Labs

Unicorn

ATP Sandbox Adv. HeuristicsAV

Unicorn is an open source tool that queries macOS system data and suggests privilege escalation paths from misconfigured binaries and permissions. Red teams use it in authorized testing, and cyberattackers use it to gain root level access on compromised Macs.

First seen
June 2022
Last seen
October 2026
Alert Name
Application.HackTool.Unicorn.A
Document-HTML.Trojan.Unicorn
Document-Office.Trojan.Unicorn
Script-JS.Trojan.Unicorn
Script-Macro.Trojan.Unicorn
Script-PowerShell.Trojan.Unicorn
Trojan.Unicorn.B
Win32.Trojan.Unicorn