Blue Team Cyber Defender

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

  Play through a day in the life of a Junior Security Analyst, their responsibilities and qualifications needed to land a role as an analyst. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/jrsecanalystintrouxo What was the malicious IP address in the alerts? 221.181.185.159 To whom did you escalate the event associated with the malicious IP address? Will Griffin After blocking the malicious IP address on the firewall, what message did the malicious actor leave for you? That’s it! See you in the next Room :)

  This room is an introduction to red teaming Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/redteamrecon Would vulnerability assessments prepare us to detect a real attacker on our networks? (Yay/Nay) Nay During a penetration test, are you concerned about being detected by the client? (Yay/Nay) Nay Highly organised groups of skilled attackers are nowadays referred to as … Advanced Persistent Threats The goals of a red team engagement will often be referred to as flags or… crown jewels During a red team engagement, common methods used by attackers are emulated against the target. Such methods are usually called TTPs. What does TTP stand for? Tactics, techniques and procedures The main objective of a red team engagement is to detect as many vulnerabilities in as many hosts as possible (Yay/Nay) Nay What cell is responsible for the offensive operations of an engagement? Red Cell What cell is the trusted agent considered part of? White Cell If an adversary deployed Mimikatz on a target machine, where

  An introduction to security awareness; why its important, the impact of being attacked, different threat actors and basic account security. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/securityawarenessintro How many people were affected by eBay being hacked? 145 million What data was leaked from Playstation being hacked? names, addresses, e-mail, birth dates Who would most likely be interested in exploiting a business? Cybercriminals Who would most likely be interested in exploiting a personal computer for fun? Thrill-seekers Who would most likely be interested in exploiting a website to deliver a message? Hacktivists That’s it! See you in the next Room :)

  Learn the different indicators of phishing attempts by examining actual phishing emails. Link- https://tryhackme.com/room/phishingemails1tryoe What phrase does the gibberish sender email start with? noreply What is the root domain for each URL? Defang the URL. devret[.]xyz This email sample used the names of a few major companies, their products, and logos such as OneDrive and Adobe. What other company name was used in this phishing email? Citrix What should users do if they receive a suspicious email or text message claiming to be from Netflix? forward the message to phishing@netflix.com What does BCC mean? Blind Carbon Copy What technique was used to persuade the victim to not ignore the email and act swiftly? Urgency What is the name of the executable that the Excel attachment attempts to run? regasms.exe That’s it! See you in the next Room :)

  Learn all the components that make up an email. Link- https://tryhackme.com/room/phishingemails1tryoe Email dates back to what time frame? 1970s What port is classified as Secure Transport for SMTP? 465 What port is classified as Secure Transport for IMAP? 993 What port is classified as Secure Transport for POP3? 995 What email header is the same as “Reply-to”? Return-Path Once you find the email sender’s IP address, where can you retrieve more information about the IP? http://www.arin.net/ In the above screenshots, what is the URI of the blocked image? https://i.imgur.com/lsw0tdi.png In the above screenshots, what is the name of the PDF attachment? payment-updateid.pdf In the attached virtual machine, view the information in email2.txt and reconstruct the PDF using the base64 data. What is the text within the PDF? Use Cyberchef from Base64 and save the output as a pdf file. Open the pdf. THM{BENIGN_PDF_ATTACHMENT} What trusted entity is this email masquerading as? Decode the subject

Learn how to use DNS, advanced searching, Recon-ng, and Maltego to collect information about your target. Link - https://tryhackme.com/room/redteamrecon When was thmredteam.com created (registered)? (YYYY-MM-DD) 2021–09–24 To how many IPv4 addresses does clinic.thmredteam.com resolve? 2 To how many IPv6 addresses does clinic.thmredteam.com resolve? 2 How would you search using Google for xls indexed for http://clinic.thmredteam.com? filetype:xls site:clinic.thmredteam.com How would you search using Google for files with the word passwords for http://clinic.thmredteam.com? passwords site:clinic.thmredteam.com What is the shodan command to get your Internet-facing IP address? shodan myip How do you start recon-ng with the workspace clinicredteam? recon-ng -w clinicredteam How many modules with the name virustotal exist? 2 There is a single module under hosts-domains. What is its name? migrate_hosts censys_email_address is a module that “retrieves email addresses from the TLS certificates