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Hands-On Network Forensics

You're reading from   Hands-On Network Forensics Investigate network attacks and find evidence using common network forensic tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789344523
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Obtaining the Evidence
2. Introducing Network Forensics FREE CHAPTER 3. Technical Concepts and Acquiring Evidence 4. Section 2: The Key Concepts
5. Deep Packet Inspection 6. Statistical Flow Analysis 7. Combatting Tunneling and Encryption 8. Section 3: Conducting Network Forensics
9. Investigating Good, Known, and Ugly Malware 10. Investigating C2 Servers 11. Investigating and Analyzing Logs 12. WLAN Forensics 13. Automated Evidence Aggregation and Analysis 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Assessments

Case study – hack attempts

Consider a simple scenario where you are tasked with finding the origin of incoming attacks on a particular web application. The only thing you know about the network is that the application is internally hosted and is not connected to the outside world. There is a caching proxy running in the network as well. As the forensic investigator, the first thing you requested from the client is the logs of the application server, which you started to investigate in Apache Logs Viewer:

Apache log viewer

We quickly deduce that there are two IP addresses of supreme interest, 192.168.174.157 and 192.168.174.150, and since the User-Agent contains sqlmap, it's a SQL injection attempt. We can also see the requests that contain buzzwords, such as WHERE and SELECT, which are typically used in SQL injections on a vulnerable parameter...

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