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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Non-volatile data collection

Before we dive into the various sources of non-volatile data sources, let's learn how to collect data sources. Of course, you must have heard about forensic images – bit stream copies of digital media. Yes, in some cases, we still create such copies; for example, for the initially compromised host, which may contain lots of various artifacts related to the threat actors' activities. Such images may be created with AccessData FTK Imager:

Figure 7.4 – Creating a bit stream image with AccessData FTK Imager

But, in many cases, you have quite a lot of compromised hosts, so creating images of every system may be quite a daunting task. Instead, you may want to create a triage image – it will contain a number of files as well as some additional data, such as information on network connections.

A pretty good tool for collecting triage data is Live Response Collection (https://www.brimorlabs.com/Tools/LiveResponseCollection...

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