Overview
From setup and configuration, to threat hunting, monitoring and alerting, you’ll play a SOC analyst in our lab and try to rapidly locate IOC’s and IOA’s from an enterprise breach executed by the trainers in real time.
Prerequisites
- A firm familiarity of Windows and Linux command line syntax
- Understanding of networking concepts
- Suited to system/network administrators, response analysts, penetration testers and anyone working in a technical IT role
- You will need a laptop with local administrator/root access
Delegates will learn how to
Over the 2 days well cover the following topics:
- MITRE ATT&CK framework primer
- Defensive OSINT
- Linux auditing and logging overview
- Windows events, logging and configuring Sysmon
- Configuring ELK, Splunk and data forwarders
- Filters, regex and visualisations
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Identifying IOC’s and IOA’s
- Detecting phishing attacks (Office macros, HTA’s and suspicious links)
- Detecting credential exploitation (Kerberoasting, PtH, PtP, DCSync)
- Detecting lateral movement (WinRM, WMI, SMB, DCOM, MSSQL)
- Detecting data exfiltration (HTTP/S, DNS, ICMP)
- Detecting persistence (userland methods, WMI Event Subscriptions)
- Identifying C2 communications
Outline
Day 1
Module 1: Defensive OSINT
Data scraping techniques, using certificate transparency logs and Shodan to identify company infrastructure exposure and utilising publicly disclosed data breaches
Module 2: Linux auditing, events and logging
- Filebeat (Elastic)
- Auditd and Auditbeat (Elastic)
- Using default tools and utilities to query event data
Module 3: Windows auditing, events and logging
- Enforcing event logging via Group Policy (GPO)
- Common and useful event logs
- Deploying Sysmon
- Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)
Module 4: Sigma rules
- Rule creation and structure
- SIEM Integration
Module 5: Overview of and configuring Elastic/Logstash, Splunk and data forwarders
- Splunk forwarders
- Using Logstash (Elastic) and Grok for data processing
- Forwarding data from Logstash to Elastic and Microsoft Azure Sentinel
Module 5: Configuring alerting and monitoring
- Event ID triggers
- Multiple criteria triggers (also continues within next section)
Module 6: Using filters, RegEx and visualisations
- Viewing and querying for events in Kibana
- Viewing and querying for events in Microsoft Azure Sentinel
- Creating visualisations for activity mapping
- Identifying Indicators of Attack (IOA) and Indicators of Compromise (IOC)
- From this stage onwards the trainers will be performing live attacks within the lab using popular C2 tooling and other open source code and toolsets
- Detecting Initial Access
- Access
Module 7: Detecting Phishing attacks
- Office macros
- HTA’s
- Suspicious links
Module 8: Detecting Phishing attacks (targeting one or more of the above techniques)
- Detecting malicious links
- Detecting suspicious network activity
- Detecting living off the land (LOLBAS) abuse
Module 9: Detecting Credential Exploitation
Part 1: Kerberoasting
- Identifying Kerberoasting attacks
Part 2: Pass-the-Hash (PtH)
- Identifying PtH attacks
Part 3: Pass-the-Ticket (PtT)
- Identifying PtT attacks
Day 2
Duration
Part 4: DCSync Theory
- Identifying DCSync attacks
Module 10: Detecting Lateral Movement
Part 1: WinRM / PowerShell Remoting / SSH
- Ports and processes
- Common attacker tooling and executing commands on remote systems
- Event IDs and useful IOC’s to detect lateral movement via WinRM
- Identifying WinRM abuse
Part 2: WMI
- Ports and processes
- Common attacker tooling and executing commands on remote systems
- Event IDs and useful IOC’s to detect lateral movement via WMI
- *Further content within the persistence modules
Part 3: SMB
- SMB versions, weaknesses and signing
- Common attacker tooling and executing commands on remote systems
- Event IDs and useful IOC’s to detect lateral movement via SMB
Module 11: Identifying SMB abuse Practical
Part 4: DCOM
- Overview of DCOM and its place in a modern attack chain
- Event IDs and useful IOC’s to detect lateral movement via DCOM
Part 5: MSSQL
- Using MSSQL servers for lateral movement (linked servers, trustworthy DBs)
- Common attacker tooling and executing commands on remote systems
- Event IDs and useful IOC’s to detect lateral movement via MSSQL
Module 12: Identifying MSSQL abuse Practical
Module 13: Detecting Data Exfiltration
Part 1: HTTP/S Communications
- Overview of Domain Fronting
- SNI, ESNI overview
- C2 tooling and traffic detection
Part 2: DNS Communications
- DNSSEC, DoT and DoH
- Data exfiltration over DNS channels
- OOB shells over DNS (dnscat2 / iodine)
- C2 tooling and traffic detection
Part 3: ICMP communications
- ICMP types
- OOB Shells over ICMP (icmpsh)
- C2 tooling and traffic detection
Module 14: Identifying OOB channels, shells and data exfiltration
Detecting Persistence Activities
Part 1: Identifying common persistence activities, including:
- Scheduled tasks
- Windows Registry
- Living off the Land and other techniques
Module 15: Identifying common persistence TTP’s Practical
Part 2: Identifying the presence of Permanent WMI Event Subscriptions and associated activities
- Overview of configuring Event Subscriptions in PowerShell and by using MOF files
- Interesting consumer classes (ActiveScriptEventConsumer and
- CommandLineEventConsumer)
Module 16: Identifying Permanent WMI Event Subscriptions Practical
- Course wrap-up and extended lab time information
* Students will use a combination of ELK and Microsoft Azure Sentinel platforms to perform practical exercises.
In each instance, filters and/or expressions will be supplied for both platforms (where applicable), so students
are able to experiment as they so wish within the supplied exercise and extended after training lab time.
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