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Effective Threat Investigation for SOC Analysts

You're reading from   Effective Threat Investigation for SOC Analysts The ultimate guide to examining various threats and attacker techniques using security logs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634781
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mostafa Yahia Mostafa Yahia
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Email Investigation Techniques
2. Chapter 1: Investigating Email Threats FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Email Flow and Header Analysis 4. Part 2: Investigating Windows Threats by Using Event Logs
5. Chapter 3: Introduction to Windows Event Logs 6. Chapter 4: Tracking Accounts Login and Management 7. Chapter 5: Investigating Suspicious Process Execution Using Windows Event Logs 8. Chapter 6: Investigating PowerShell Event Logs 9. Chapter 7: Investigating Persistence and Lateral Movement Using Windows Event Logs 10. Part 3: Investigating Network Threats by Using Firewall and Proxy Logs
11. Chapter 8: Network Firewall Logs Analysis 12. Chapter 9: Investigating Cyber Threats by Using the Firewall Logs 13. Chapter 10: Web Proxy Logs Analysis 14. Chapter 11: Investigating Suspicious Outbound Communications (C&C Communications) by Using Proxy Logs 15. Part 4: Investigating Other Threats and Leveraging External Sources to Investigate Cyber Threats
16. Chapter 12: Investigating External Threats 17. Chapter 13: Investigating Network Flows and Security Solutions Alerts 18. Chapter 14: Threat Intelligence in a SOC Analyst’s Day 19. Chapter 15: Malware Sandboxing – Building a Malware Sandbox 20. Index 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

During this chapter, we discussed how to investigate C&C communications by using the proxy logs with the questions, answers, and hypotheses method to investigate some C&C communications attributes, such as the web domain reputation and suspicious target domain names, the requested web resources, the referrer URL, the communications user agent, the communications destination port, the received and sent bytes, the HTTP method, and the Content-Type. Finally, we discussed some command and control techniques.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to investigate external threats.

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