Collaborate Disseminate
I ran across Manuel Arrieta’s Hunting Fileless Malware in the Windows Registry article recently, and found it to be an interesting read.Let me start by saying that the term “fileless malware”, for me, is like finger nails dragged down a chalkboard. Par… Continue reading Hunting Fileless Malware
On the heels of my previous post on this topic, it occurred to me that this tendency to incorrectly refer to ShimCache and AmCache artifacts as “evidence of execution” strongly indicates that we’re also not validating program execution. That is to say,… Continue reading Program Execution, follow-up pt II
Last Nov, I published a blog post titled Program Execution: The ShimCache/AmCache Myth as a means of documenting, yet again and in one place, the meaning of the artifacts. I did this because I kept seeing the “…these artifacts illustrate p… Continue reading Program Execution, follow-up
As a follow-on to my previous post with this title, I wanted to keep the story going; in fact, there are likely to be several more posts in this series, so stay tuned.And hey, I’m not the only one sharing my journey! Check out Josh’s blog, particularly… Continue reading I’ve Seen Things, pt II
I like the movie “Blade Runner”. I’ve read Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, on which the movie is based. So what does this have to do with anything? Well, I’ve been around the industry for some time. I’ve added an… Continue reading I’ve Seen Things
In 1998, I was in a role where I was leading teams on-site to conduct vulnerability assessments fororganizations. For the technical part of the assessments, we were using ISS’s Internet Scanner product, which was a commercial scanner. Several years pri… Continue reading Know Your Tools
The folks over at CyberTriage recently shared a complete guide to WMI; it’s billed as a “complete guide to WMI malware”, and it covers a great deal more than just malware. They cover examples of discovery and enumeration, as well as execution, but what… Continue reading WMI
I read something interesting recently that stuck with me. Well, not “interesting”, really…it was a LinkedIn post on security sales. I usually don’t read or follow such things, but for some reason, I started reading through this one, and really engagi… Continue reading The Problem with the Modern Security Stack
Lina recently posted on LinkedIn that she’d published another blog post. Her blog posts are always well written, easy to follow, fascinating, and very informative, and this one did not disappoint.In short, Lina says that she found a bunch of Chinese bl… Continue reading Lina’s Write-up
The role of AI in DFIR is something I’ve been noodling over for some time, even before my wife first asked me the question of how AI would impact what I do. I guess I started thinking about it when I first saw signs of folks musing over how “good” AI w… Continue reading The Role of AI in DFIR