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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Investigating lateral movement techniques

Ransomware affiliates don't want to stay on the initially compromised host; they want to gather information about the network and start moving laterally as fast as possible, so they can find and collect sensitive data and go to the final stage – ransomware deployment.

Administrative shares

One of the common ways to start moving laterally is to abuse Windows administrative shares, such as C$, ADMIN$, and $IPC. If proper credentials were obtained, ransomware affiliates could easily browse files on remote hosts or even copy files to them.

We already looked into the NTUSER.dat file. Let's look inside it again, this time with Registry Explorer.

Figure 9.13 – Evidence of accessing the C:\ drive of 192.168.1.76

So, we can see that our compromised user accessed 192.168.1.76. Interesting! Let's get the $MFT file from that host and try to understand whether anything was copied to the host...

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