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

Author (1):

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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Chapter 8: Investigating Initial Access Techniques

In the previous chapter, we looked at various sources of digital forensic artifacts available on Windows systems. Now, it's time to start looking at some case studies so that we can understand how exactly those artifacts can be used for ransomware attack life cycle reconstruction.

We'll start by finding evidence for the most common initial access techniques – abusing external remote services and phishing.

Abusing external remote services, especially publicly exposed RDP servers, is an extremely common technique. However, more than 50% of successful attacks start from a successful brute-force attack against such servers.

Almost the same can be said about phishing – lots of different bots, which are distributed via email and other media, are now precursors to ransomware attacks.

In this chapter, we'll investigate two cases based on real attack scenarios. The following topics will be covered:

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