Incident Response

This entry is part 12 of 4 in the series Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Views: 4Incident response, also known as incident handling, is a cyber security function that uses various methodologies, tools and techniques to detect and manage adversarial attacks while minimizing impact, recovery time and total operating costs. Addressing attacks requires containing malware infections, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, as well as sourcing, managing, and deploying technical and non-technical … Read more

Remote Monitoring and Management software used in phishing attacks

Views: 15RMM software used in phishing attacks Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) software, including popular tools like AnyDesk, Atera, and Splashtop, are invaluable for IT administrators today, streamlining tasks and ensuring network integrity from afar. However, these same tools have caught the eye of cybercriminals, who exploit them to infiltrate company networks and pilfer sensitive … Read more

Windows Event Logs

This entry is part 12 of 24 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 38Understanding Windows Event Logs Each entry in the Windows Event Log is an “Event” and contains the following primary components: Windows logon types and logon codes Logs with event IDs 4624 and 4625 are generated every time there is a successful or failed logon on a local computer, respectively.  In Windows, there are several … Read more

Wireshark 101 | Packet Operations

This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 7Wireshark: Packet Operations Statistics | Summary This menu provides multiple statistics options ready to investigate to help users see the big picture in terms of the scope of the traffic, available protocols, endpoints and conversations, and some protocol-specific details like DHCP, DNS and HTTP/2. For a security analyst, it is crucial to know how to … Read more

SOC Tools and Useful Links

This entry is part 9 of 24 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 641- IP & URL Reputation 1. Virus Total : https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload2. URL Scan : https://urlscan.io/3. AbuseIPDB: https://www.abuseipdb.com/4. Cisco Talos: https://www.talosintelligence.com/5. IBM X-Force: https://lnkd.in/gt8iyHE56. URL Filtering(Palo Alto): https://lnkd.in/e4bkm5Eq7. URL Filtering(Symantec): https://lnkd.in/g4qQGsHG8. IP Void: https://www.ipvoid.com/9. URL Void: https://www.urlvoid.com/ 2- File | Hash | Search | Analysis | Sandboxing 1. File Extension >>https://filesec.io/# 2. LOLBAS >>https://lnkd.in/dDa8XgiM 3. GTFOBins >>https://lnkd.in/dRVzVz87 4. File Hash Check >> https://lnkd.in/gNqxtn4d 5. Hash Search … Read more

ELASTIC SIEM: Kibana Query Language (KQL) 

This entry is part 10 of 24 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 105Different Syntax Languages Kibana supports two types of syntax languages for querying in Kibana: KQL (Kibana Query Language) and Lucene Query Syntax. Special Characters Certain characters are reserved in ELK queries and must be escaped before usage. Reserved characters in ELK include +, -, =, &&, ||, &, | and !. For instance, using the + character in a query will result in an error; to escape this character, precede it with … Read more