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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Accessing credentials

As in most cases, ransomware affiliates want to encrypt as many hosts as possible, so they must be able to move laterally or at least run malicious code remotely. To do so silently and successfully, they prefer to obtain elevated credentials first, but, their main goal is to obtain the domain administrator account.

There are quite a few techniques that enable threat actors to obtain authentication material. Let's look at the most common ones.

Brute force (T1110)

As you may recall, RDP, VPN, and other external remote services are extremely common for human-operated ransomware attacks. Such services are poorly protected in many cases, so the initial access brokers or ransomware affiliates themselves may run successful brute-force attacks against them to gain access to valid accounts.

OS credential dumping (T1003)

Another very common technique is credential dumping. Despite the fact it's easily detectable, ransomware affiliates still use...

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Brute force (T1110)

OS credential dumping (T1003)

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OS credential dumping (T1003)

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