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

Concepts

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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Collecting data sources for a phishing attack investigation

We already know that various bots, such as Emotet, Trickbot, and IcedID, are very common precursors of human-operated ransomware attacks. Usually, such bots are delivered via weaponized office documents through email. In most cases, the victim must enable the macros, so the malicious payload will end up being downloaded and executed. At the same time, the threat actors may exploit vulnerabilities to achieve the same results.

Bots are commonly used to perform basic reconnaissance and provide capabilities for further exploitation – for example, delivering additional tools such as Cobalt Strike's Beacon.

We have already played a bit with KAPE, so this time we'll use another tool – Live Response Collection.

This tool is even easier to use; all we need to do is run it from an external or network drive and choose operation mode.

Figure 8.6 – Running Live Response Collection...

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