You're reading from Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks Understand modern ransomware attacks and build an incident response strategy to work through them

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240442

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

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Oleg Skulkin

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack

2. Chapter 1: The History of Human-Operated Ransomware Attacks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Life Cycle of a Human-Operated Ransomware Attack

4. Chapter 3: The Incident Response Process

5. Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate

6. Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence and Ransomware

7. Chapter 5: Understanding Ransomware Affiliates' Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

8. Chapter 6: Collecting Ransomware-Related Cyber Threat Intelligence

9. Section 3: Practical Incident Response

10. Chapter 7: Digital Forensic Artifacts and Their Main Sources

11. Chapter 8: Investigating Initial Access Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Investigating Post-Exploitation Techniques

13. Chapter 10: Investigating Data Exfiltration Techniques

14. Chapter 11: Investigating Ransomware Deployment Techniques

15. Chapter 12: The Unified Ransomware Kill Chain

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Investigation of Administrative shares for ransomware deployment

We have already discussed how ransomware affiliates may abuse Administrative shares to enable lateral movement. The same technique can be used by threat actors for ransomware deployment. A good example is PsExec. Some affiliates use pre-made batch files in order to copy a ransomware executable to the target hosts and then execute it with help of PsExec.

It's not the only technique that exploits Administrative shares, of course. Let's look at another example, and start from the MFT-based timeline one more time:

Figure 11.7 – Ransom notes created on the compromised host

On the preceding screenshot, you can see a bunch of ransom notes created by a malicious executable, and also a suspicious Prefetch file.

When we are talking about Administrative shares abuse, a very common artifact you should always focus on is a service installation event. You can find it in System.evtx Windows...

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