CALDERA

The folks at MITRE have created yet another awesome tool.  CALDERA uses the ATT&CK model to simulate adversary behavior. It’s a great way to generate logs for hunting, or see how your detection stacks up.  Here’s how I got it going. I pretty much just followed along with the instructions Read more…

Forensic Challenge

Information: A user reported strange computer activity to their support staff. Support was so good that the first thing they did was to snap a memory image before the computer was rebooted. Once the technical staff acquired the memory, they were also able to grab an image of the system Read more…

Opencanary

I love honeypots and wanted to give opencanary a shot cause I kept hearing how cool it was.  It’s written in python, and very easy to configure and extend. The idea is to stick these in various places in your network with fake services similar to what’s around it.  In Read more…

Bro 2.5.1 and ELK

Software versions: Bro 2.5.1 – on Debian 8.9 bro server Logstash 2.2.4 on Debian 8.9 bro server Elasticsearch 2.4.6 on Debian 8.9 ELK server Kibana 4.3.0.9369 on Debian 8.9 ELK server   First install Java on both systems: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer   Read more…

Awesome .htaccess

This .htaccess blocks bots, search engine index, wget, curl, and access to itself. Enable via /etc/apache2/sites-available/whateversite.conf. <Directory “/var/www/html/whateversite”> AllowOverride All </Directory>   .htaccess file. <Files .htaccess> deny from all </Files> RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AhrefsBot [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Ezooms [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MJ12bot [OR] Read more…