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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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Investigating a phishing attack

We will use Volatility 3 to examine the memory image we obtained with Live Response Collection. As we remember from Chapter 5, Understanding Ransomware Affiliates' Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, one of the most common techniques used by commodity malware is process injection. Let's start from low-hanging fruits, running the malfind plugin against the memory image.

Figure 8.7 – A part of the malfind output

This Volatility plugin helps to find hidden or injected code or DLLs, so it's very useful for the detection of process injection techniques.

There are a few artifacts extracted by malfind, but the most interesting one is related to the rundll32.exe process with the 9772 PID, which you can see in the preceding screenshot. Based on the output, most likely there's code injection. Very often, IT professionals and junior security analysts disregard rundll32.exe, but this legitimate executable should...

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