Blue Team Cyber Defender

  Introductory room for the DFIR module Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/introductoryroomdfirmodule What does DFIR stand for? Digital Forensics and Incident Response DFIR requires expertise in two fields. One of the fields is Digital Forensics. What is the other field? Incident Response. Complete the timeline creation exercise in the attached static site. What is the flag that you get after completion? At what stage of the IR process are disrupted services brought back online as they were before the incident? recovery At what stage of the IR process is the threat evicted from the network after performing the forensic analysis? eradication What is the NIST-equivalent of the step called “Lessons learned” in the SANS process? Post-incident Activity That’s it! See you in the next Room :)

  Learn what is the Pyramid of Pain and how to utilize this model to determine the level of difficulty it will cause for an adversary to change the indicators associated with them, and their campaign. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/pyramidofpainax Provide the ransomware name for the hash ‘63625702e63e333f235b5025078cea1545f29b1ad42b1e46031911321779b6be’ using open-source lookup tools Conti What is the ASN for the third IP address observed? Host Europe GmbH What is the domain name associated with the first IP address observed? craftingalegacy.com Go to this report on app.any.run and provide the first malicious URL request you are seeing, you will be using this report to answer the remaining questions of this task. craftingalegacy.com What term refers to an address used to access websites? Domain Name What type of attack uses Unicode characters in the domain name to imitate the a known domain? Punycode attack Provide the redirected website for the shortened URL using a preview: ht...

Introduction to Windows Registry Forensics Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/windowsforensics1 What is the most used Desktop Operating System right now? Microsoft Windows What is the short form for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? HKLM What is the path for the five main registry hives, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, and SYSTEM? C:\Windows\System32\Config What is the path for the AmCache hive? C:\Windows\AppCompat\Programs\Amcache.hve What is the Current Build Number of the machine whose data is being investigated? 19044 Which ControlSet contains the last known good configuration? 1 What is the Computer Name of the computer? THM-4n6 What is the value of the TimeZoneKeyName? Pakistan Standard Time What is the DHCP IP address 192.168.100.58 What is the RID of the Guest User account? 501 When was EZtools opened? 2021–12–01 13:00:34 At what time was My Computer last interacted with? 2021–12–01 13:06:47 What is the Absolute Path of the file opened using notepad.exe? C:\Program Files\Amazon\Ec2ConfigSe...

  Learn how to use Redline to perform memory analysis and to scan for IOCs on an endpoint. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/btredlinejoxr3d Who created Redline? FireEye What data collection method takes the least amount of time? Standard Collector You are reading a research paper on a new strain of ransomware. You want to run the data collection on your computer based on the patterns provided, such as domains, hashes, IP addresses, filenames, etc. What method would you choose to run a granular data collection against the known indicators? IOC Search Collector What script would you run to initiate the data collection process? Please include the file extension. RunRedlineAudit.bat If you want to collect the data on Disks and Volumes, under which option can you find it? Disk Enumeration What cache does Windows use to maintain a preference for recently executed code? Prefetch Where in the Redline UI can you view information about the Logged in User? System Information Provide the Oper...

  Practice analyzing malicious traffic using Brim. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/mastermindsxlq [Infection 1] Provide the victim’s IP address. Load infection1.pcap in Brim Check the source IP of “Http Requests” 192.168.75.249 The victim attempted to make HTTP connections to two suspicious domains with the status ‘404 Not Found’. Provide the hosts/domains requested. cambiasuhistoria.growlab.es, www.letscompareonline.com The victim made a successful HTTP connection to one of the domains and received the response_body_len of 1,309 (uncompressed content size of the data transferred from the server). Provide the domain and the destination IP address. Check the “Http Requests” ww25.gocphongthe.com,199.59.242.153 How many unique DNS requests were made to cab[.]myfkn[.]com domain (including the capitalized domain)? Check “Unique DNS Queries” 7 Provide the URI of the domain bhaktivrind[.]com that the victim reached out over HTTP. Check the “Http Requests” /cgi-bin/JBbb8/ Provide the IP ...

Learn about the essential tools for passive reconnaissance, such as whois, nslookup, and dig. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/passiverecon You visit the Facebook page of the target company, hoping to get some of their employee names. What kind of reconnaissance activity is this? (A for active, P for passive) P You ping the IP address of the company webserver to check if ICMP traffic is blocked. What kind of reconnaissance activity is this? (A for active, P for passive) A You happen to meet the IT administrator of the target company at a party. You try to use social engineering to get more information about their systems and network infrastructure. What kind of reconnaissance activity is this? (A for active, P for passive) A When was TryHackMe.com registered? 20180705 What is the registrar of TryHackMe.com? namecheap.com Which company is TryHackMe.com using for name servers? cloudflare.com Check the TXT records of thmlabs.com. What is the flag there? Lookup tryhackme.com on DNSDumpste...

  Learn about digital forensics artefacts found on Linux servers by analysing a compromised server Link :- https://tryhackme.com/room/linuxserverforensics Deploy the first VM Login using ssh and navigate to /var/log/apache2 How many different tools made requests to the server? Run the below command Answer is 2 Name a path requested by Nmap. Run below command Answer is /nmaplowercheck1618912425 What page allows users to upload files? Navigate to the website Answer is contact.php What IP uploaded files to the server? Run below command to find Answer is 192.168.56.24 Who left an exposed security notice on the server? Run below command to find Go to the location mentioned above and open the security.md file Answer is Fred What command and option did the attacker use to establish a backdoor? Run below command to find backdoor Answer is sh -i What is the password of the second root account? Search passwd Google search xxx from root2 :xxx to find password Deploy the second VM Login a...