You're reading from Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting A hands-on guide to threat hunting with the ATT&CK™ Framework and open source tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556372

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Application Security

Author (1):

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What Is Threat Hunting?

4. Chapter 3: Where Does the Data Come From?

5. Section 2: Understanding the Adversary

6. Chapter 4: Mapping the Adversary

7. Chapter 5: Working with Data

8. Chapter 6: Emulating the Adversary

9. Section 3: Working with a Research Environment

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Research Environment

11. Chapter 8: How to Query the Data

12. Chapter 9: Hunting for the Adversary

13. Chapter 10: Importance of Documenting and Automating the Process

14. Section 4: Communicating to Succeed

15. Chapter 11: Assessing Data Quality

16. Chapter 12: Understanding the Output

17. Chapter 13: Defining Good Metrics to Track Success

18. Chapter 14: Engaging the Response Team and Communicating the Result to Executives

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Appendix – The State of the Hunt

Setting up ELK

At this point, you have two options. If you want to start small, you can follow these steps to deploy a raw ELK instance so that you can start querying plain Elasticsearch; alternatively, you can deploy the HELK, Roberto Rodriguez' open source hunting tool, which has more advanced capabilities. If you choose to do the latter, please jump to the The HELK – an open source tool by Roberto Rodriguez section.

In any case, you will need to download a Linux distro. I'm going to use Ubuntu 18.04 (https://releases.ubuntu.com/), but you can use any other you may like. Keep in mind that if you plan to install the HELK or move to it later, Roberto's tool is optimized for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16, CentOS 7, and CentOS 8.

Once again, upload the distro's ISO to the ESXI databrowser and use it to create a new virtual machine. You will need to keep two things in mind: