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

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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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Windows event logs

Event logging is a built-in mechanism for documenting various events related to the Windows operating system and various applications. It can be an extremely valuable source of evidence related to a human-operated ransomware attack as well.

In some cases, the threat actors may remove such logs to cover their traces, but even this may be a good indicator that the host was compromised.

By default, these log files are located under C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs and have the .evtx extension. Here are a few examples of these files:

Figure 7.16 – Windows event log files listed in AccessData FTK Imager

Windows event logs can also be collected by implementing a SIEM (it's a very good idea to make sure the correct logs are captured) or EDR/XDR solution.

Let's look at some commonly used log files and event IDs:

Security:
- 4624 – A logon to a system has occurred.
- 4625 – A failed logon attempt.
- 4720 –...

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