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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Volatile memory collection and analysis

As many threat actors leverage various living-off-the-land techniques, volatile memory analysis may provide key artifacts an incident responder needs to properly reconstruct techniques. Such techniques can sometimes help threat actors to fly under the radar of the security stack.

As volatile data is commonly stored within the Random Access Memory (RAM) of a device, usually it involves leveraging memory dumping techniques.

There are a bunch of tools that can be used to dump volatile memory. Here are some of them:

AccessData FTK Imager (https://accessdata.com/product-download/ftk-imager-version-4-5)
Belkasoft RAM Capturer (https://belkasoft.com/ram-capturer)
Magnet RAM Capturer (https://www.magnetforensics.com/resources/magnet-ram-capture/)

The main thing you must remember is to never copy acquisition tools and the resulting memory dump to the same device you are dumping it from. Use an external drive or a network share...

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