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Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073783
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Filebeat Threat Intel module

Filebeat has a Threat Intel module that is intended to import threat data from various feeds. We'll set up three of the feeds that do not require any third-party accounts, but you can set those up as well if you have accounts.

In Elastic 7.12, the Threat Intel module collects data from five sources:

  • Abuse Malware
  • Abuse URL
  • Anomali Limo
  • AlienVault OTX (free account required)
  • MISP (additional infrastructure required)

We'll go through the steps to set up Abuse Malware, Abuse URL, and Anomali Limo:

  1. Log in to the command line of your Elastic VM and install filebeat using DNF:

    sudo dnf install filebeat –y

    Once you have installed Filebeat, you need to update the configuration and start collecting data.

  2. First, let's enable the Threat Intel Filebeat module. We can simply run the following:

    sudo filebeat modules enable threatintel

  3. Now that we've enabled the Threat Intel module, we just need to do a few...
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