You're reading from Digital Forensics and Incident Response Incident response tools and techniques for effective cyber threat response

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents

4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics

5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology

6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition

7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence

8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection

10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging

11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence

13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files

16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report

17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response

18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response

19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations

20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting

21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response

22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting

24. Assessments

25. Index

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Appendix

Command and Control

In this case, we will look at traffic associated with the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike. This is a commonly used tool by ransomware threat actors. In this case, we will look at examining a full packet capture to uncover previously unidentified IOCs related to the adversary’s infrastructure. For this review, we will look at a packet capture related to an attack using the Squirrelwaffle loader with the Qakbot RAT and finally how to install Cobalt Strike, which is available at https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2021/09/22/index.html.

Security Onion

One tool that we briefly covered previously is Security Onion. This open source intrusion detection system can aid in identifying potential command and control traffic. In this case, the packet capture was run against the existing rule set and Security Onion indicated several hits. One that is of note is the ET MALWARE Observed Qbot Style SSL Certificate:

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