Code Obfuscation and Deobfuscation

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This entry is part 12 of 13 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 12Code Obfuscation is a technique used to make a script more difficult to read by humans but allows it to function the same from a technical point of view, though performance may be slower. This is usually achieved automatically by using an obfuscation tool, which takes code as an input, and attempts to re-write … Read more

Volatility: Perform Memory Forensics with Volatility (Part 01)

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 23Reference: TryHackMe Room “Core Windows Processes” Core Windows Processes Understanding how the Windows operating system functions as a defender is vital.  Task Manager doesn’t show a Parent-Child process view. That is where other utilities, such as Process Hacker and Process Explorer, come to the rescue. Process Hacker Process Explorer Command-line equivalent of obtaining information about the running … Read more

Snort 101

Views: 13Intrusion Detection System (IDS) IDS is a passive monitoring solution for detecting possible malicious activities/patterns, abnormal incidents, and policy violations. It is responsible for generating alerts for each suspicious event.  There are two main types of IDS systems; Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) IPS is an active protecting solution for preventing possible malicious activities/patterns, abnormal incidents, and policy violations. … Read more

Practical Threat Hunting using Elastic SIEM: Hunting for Stuxbot

This entry is part 11 of 17 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 172Based on the INTRODUCTION TO THREAT HUNTING & HUNTING WITH ELASTIC module from HTB-Academy Hunting for Stuxbot The Stuxbot cybercrime group operates with a broad scope, seizing upon opportunities as they arise, without any specific targeting strategy – their motto seems to be anyone, anytime.  The primary motivation behind their actions appears to be espionage … Read more

Splunk: Search Processing Language (SPL) Basics

This entry is part 10 of 17 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 63Splunk Search Processing Language comprises of multiple functions, operators and commands that are used together to form a simple to complex search and get the desired results from the ingested logs. Main components of SPL Search Field Operators Comparison Operators These operators are used to compare the values against the fields. Field Name Operator … Read more