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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Web browsers

Web browsers are commonly used both by regular users, who are potential victims of spear-phishing attacks, and threat actors, who usually use them for downloading additional tooling and data exfiltration.

Let's focus on three main browsers – Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox.

The main source of browser-related evidence is, of course, the history. Browsing history analysis may reveal locations from which the ransomware affiliates downloaded their tooling or, for example, uploaded collected data. Usually, this data is stored in SQLite databases, which can be found here:

Microsoft Edge: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\History
Google Chrome: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History
Mozilla Firefox: C:\Users\%USERPNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random text>.default\places.sqlite

As these are SQLite databases, they can be analyzed...

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