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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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Investigating web browser abuse for data exfiltration

As you already know from the previous chapters, ransomware affiliates abuse Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections both for initial access and lateral movement quite often, so they can easily use built-in legitimate tools to solve various tasks, including data exfiltration.

One such tool is a web browser. Threat actors may use it to upload sensitive data collected by them to various file-sharing services, for example, DropMeFiles.

Web browsers have great logging capabilities, so digital forensic analysts and incident responders can always check the browsing history for any traces of data exfiltration.

Let's look at a classic version of a built-in web browser – Microsoft Edge. History data is stored in a WebCacheV01.dat file that is an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database. Of course, there are quite a few tools that can be used to browse and analyze its contents. A good example is ESEDatabaseView from...

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