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Hands-On Network Forensics

You're reading from   Hands-On Network Forensics Investigate network attacks and find evidence using common network forensic tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789344523
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Obtaining the Evidence
2. Introducing Network Forensics FREE CHAPTER 3. Technical Concepts and Acquiring Evidence 4. Section 2: The Key Concepts
5. Deep Packet Inspection 6. Statistical Flow Analysis 7. Combatting Tunneling and Encryption 8. Section 3: Conducting Network Forensics
9. Investigating Good, Known, and Ugly Malware 10. Investigating C2 Servers 11. Investigating and Analyzing Logs 12. WLAN Forensics 13. Automated Evidence Aggregation and Analysis 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Assessments

Case study – decrypting the Metasploit Reverse HTTPS Shellcode

It is practically impossible to decrypt the HTTPS communication without using a man-in-the-middle or some sorts of SSL offloader. In the case of a Meterpreter shell, the key and certificates are dynamically generated and are then removed, making it more difficult to decrypt the encrypted sessions. However, sometimes a malicious attacker may use and impersonate SSL certificates and leave them on their system. In such cases, obtaining the private key can decrypt the HTTPS payloads for us. The following example demonstrates the SSL decryption in cases of a self-signed certificate and we are assuming that the incident responders somehow managed to grab the keys from the attackers system. Let's look at the encrypted communication given in the following screenshot:

We can see that the data is encrypted...

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