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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Executing malicious code

Once the threat actors successfully gain access to the target system, they need to execute various payloads or dual-use tools to solve various post-exploitation tasks.

There are multiple techniques to do so. Let's look at the most commonly observed human-operated ransomware intrusions.

User execution (T1204)

As you already know, many threat actors actively leverage phishing to obtain initial access, and in most cases, the victims must interact with attachments or links so that the malicious code can be executed. With these two combined, there is a lot a threat actor can potentially gain access to.

We can also look at this technique from another perspective. For example, if ransomware affiliates gain access through a public-facing RDP server, they usually immediately have access to elevated credentials, such as the administrator account. So, in this case, they may play the role of the malicious user and execute various commands and tools.

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