You're reading from Industrial Cybersecurity Efficiently monitor the cybersecurity posture of your ICS environment

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202092

Length 800 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Pascal Ackerman

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: ICS Cybersecurity Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Introduction and Recap of First Edition FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: A Modern Look at the Industrial Control System Architecture

4. Chapter 3: The Industrial Demilitarized Zone

5. Chapter 4: Designing the ICS Architecture with Security in Mind

6. Section 2:Industrial Cybersecurity – Security Monitoring

7. Chapter 5: Introduction to Security Monitoring

8. Chapter 6: Passive Security Monitoring

9. Chapter 7: Active Security Monitoring

10. Chapter 8: Industrial Threat Intelligence

11. Chapter 9: Visualizing, Correlating, and Alerting

12. Section 3:Industrial Cybersecurity – Threat Hunting

13. Chapter 10: Threat Hunting

14. Chapter 11: Threat Hunt Scenario 1 – Malware Beaconing

15. Chapter 12: Threat Hunt Scenario 2 – Finding Malware and Unwanted Applications

16. Chapter 13: Threat Hunt Scenario 3 – Suspicious External Connections

17. Section 4:Industrial Cybersecurity – Security Assessments and Intel

18. Chapter 14: Different Types of Cybersecurity Assessments

19. Chapter 15: Industrial Control System Risk Assessments

20. Chapter 16: Red Team/Blue Team Exercises

21. Chapter 17: Penetration Testing ICS Environments

22. Section 5:Industrial Cybersecurity – Incident Response for the ICS Environment

23. Chapter 18: Incident Response for the ICS Environment

24. Chapter 19: Lab Setup

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How to install the malware for the lab environment

To add some interesting suspicious traffic, I have adopted a piece of malware that came as part of the book Practical Malware Analysis (https://nostarch.com/malware) called iprip.dll. It will register itself as a service on the system it ran on and continuously try to reach out to the website http://very-malicious-website.com. This behavior shows up in your logs as beaconing and command and control communications traffic.

To install the malware, download it from https://github.com/SackOfHacks/Industrial-Cybersecurity-2nd-Edition/blob/main/lab-setup/malware/IPRIPa.zip and unzip it (the archive password is infected).

On the system where you want to deploy the malware, open an elevated (administrator) Command Prompt and run the rundll32.exe IPRIPa.dll,install command:

Figure 19.16 – Installing the IPRIPa.dll malware

This installs the malware as a service. You can start the service with the net...