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Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556372

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Security

Author (1):

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What Is Threat Hunting?

4. Chapter 3: Where Does the Data Come From?

5. Section 2: Understanding the Adversary

6. Chapter 4: Mapping the Adversary

7. Chapter 5: Working with Data

8. Chapter 6: Emulating the Adversary

9. Section 3: Working with a Research Environment

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Research Environment

11. Chapter 8: How to Query the Data

12. Chapter 9: Hunting for the Adversary

13. Chapter 10: Importance of Documenting and Automating the Process

14. Section 4: Communicating to Succeed

15. Chapter 11: Assessing Data Quality

16. Chapter 12: Understanding the Output

17. Chapter 13: Defining Good Metrics to Track Success

18. Chapter 14: Engaging the Response Team and Communicating the Result to Executives

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Appendix – The State of the Hunt

Testing yourself

In this section, you are going to repeat the exercise we did previously, but you are going to complete it all by yourself. First, you are going to use a paragraph with the behavior you should identify highlighted by me. Then, you are going to repeat the exercise without any guided help.

To complete this exercise, you will need to have access to the ATT&CK website: https://attack.mitre.org/.

Tip

Look for keywords in the text such as persistence, execute, gather, and send that could help you identify the type of behavior the author is talking about. You can also use the ATT&CK web search box to find other keywords, such as DLL, Windows API, Registry Key, and so on.

Take a look at the ATT&CK Matrix to identify the corresponding tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques.

A formgrabber injects a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) into a browser and monitors for calls to the HttpSendRequest API within WININET.DLL in order to intercept the data before encryption...

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