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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Ransomware affiliates may use built-in tools, such as web browsers, for data exfiltration, but also can install and execute third-party tools to solve this task.

So, it's always a good idea to check for freshly installed programs, which may be related to activities performed by the threat actors. Such information can be collected from the SOFTWARE registry file, which is located under C:\Windows\System32\config.

Information about installed programs can be located under SOFTWARE | Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall:

Figure 10.7 – Information on installed programs

We can get even more information on the installed application by checking the values of the MEGAsync subkey:

Figure 10.8 – MEGAsync installation details

MEGA provides the threat actors with great exfiltration capabilities, which is why many ransomware affiliates prefer...

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