You're reading from Incident Response with Threat Intelligence Practical insights into developing an incident response capability through intelligence-based threat hunting

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072953

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Information Management

Author (1):

Roberto Martinez

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response

2. Chapter 1: Threat Landscape and Cybersecurity Incidents FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Concepts of Digital Forensics and Incident Response

4. Chapter 3: Basics of the Incident Response and Triage Procedures

5. Chapter 4: Applying First Response Procedures

6. Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries

7. Chapter 5: Identifying and Profiling Threat Actors

8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

9. Chapter 7: Using Cyber Threat Intelligence in Incident Response

10. Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations

11. Chapter 8: Building an Incident Response Capability

12. Chapter 9: Creating Incident Response Plans and Playbooks

13. Chapter 10: Implementing an Incident Management System

14. Chapter 11: Integrating SOAR Capabilities into Incident Response

15. Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

16. Chapter 12: Working with Analytics and Detection Engineering in Incident Response

17. Chapter 13: Creating and Deploying Detection Rules

18. Chapter 14:  Hunting and Investigating Security Incidents

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Discovering and containing malicious behaviors

A powerful feature of ATT&CK is making Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) information actionable to discover and contain malicious actions during incident response.

We are going to use as an example Kaspersky's report on Hakuna MATA, an investigation into a malicious campaign by threat actor Lazarus, published at https://securelist.com/lazarus-on-the-hunt-for-big-game/97757/, about the installation of the VHD ransomware and the chain of compromise, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 6.16 – Hakuna MATA VHD ransomware chain of compromise

According to this report, the initial attack vector may have a compromised vulnerable VPN gateway; this allowed attackers to access the network, make lateral movements, elevate privileges, and compromise different services such as Active Directory.

Now, let's assume that your SOC team detects a connection from your network to one of the C2 described...