You're reading from Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack Solve complex security challenges with integrated prevention, detection, and response

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073783

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kibana

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Andrew Pease

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Threat Hunting, Analytical Models, and Hunting Methodologies

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence, Analytical Models, and Frameworks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Hunting Concepts, Methodologies, and Techniques

4. Section 2: Leveraging the Elastic Stack for Collection and Analysis

5. Chapter 3: Introduction to the Elastic Stack

6. Chapter 4: Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1

7. Chapter 5: Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2

8. Chapter 6: Data Collection with Beats and Elastic Agent

9. Chapter 7: Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data

10. Chapter 8: The Elastic Security App

11. Section 3: Operationalizing Threat Hunting

12. Chapter 9: Using Kibana to Pivot Through Data to Find Adversaries

13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Hunting to Inform Operations

14. Chapter 11: Enriching Data to Make Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Sharing Information and Analysis

16. Assessments

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting events with a timeline

In Chapter 8, The Elastic Security App, we were introduced to an information stealer known as Tesla Agent. We were able to see a bit of data surrounding the Tesla execution, with me even staging the malware onto the victim box. As promised, we're going to dig a bit deeper into this malware infection to demonstrate how to use the Security app to perform targeted hunts for observed events. Let's get right into it.

As I mentioned in the previous chapter, I am obscuring the malware identifying marks because it is live malware, which can damage a network, and adversary-controlled infrastructure could have innocent victims that I don't want to expose.

As a brief reminder, we detonated a malware sample on our victim machine. I used a two-day-old Agent Tesla sample, but any will do. Once you've detonated your malware, you should see it in the Alert View of the Security app. From here, we can click on the Resolver button.

Moving on...