On Friday, September 15, 2023, Michael Ascot, a Senior Finance Director from SwiftSpend, was checking his emails in Outlook and came across an email appearing to be from Abotech Waste Management regarding a monthly invoice for their services. Michael actioned this email and downloaded the attachment to his workstation without thinking.
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Scenario overview After months of juggling content calendars and caffeine-fueled brainstorming, co-founder Tom Whiskers finally carved out time to build the company’s first website. It was supposed to be simple: follow a tutorial, install a few packages, and bring the brand to life with lightweight JavaScript magic. But between sleepless nights and copy-pasted code, Tom started feeling off. Not sick exactly, just off. The terminal scrolled with reassuring green text, the site loaded fine, and everything looked normal. Then, a strange file appeared on the system. No one could say where it came from. It wasn’t part of the tutorial, didn’t match any known dependencies, and didn’t even run. It just waited. Scenario objectives Determine how a threat actor first gained a foothold on the system. Identify suspicious activity that may point to the initial compromise method. Investigate signs of malicious execution following the initial access. Analyse the logs ...
Threat Hunt Walkthrough The "Typo Snare" scenario on TryHackMe is a fantastic real-world simulation of a sophisticated, multi-stage attack. It starts with a simple mistake and escalates to a full domain compromise, culminating in ransomware. This post will walk you through the entire attack chain, phase by phase, showing you how to find each piece of evidence using Elastic KQL queries. Phase 1: Initial Access & Execution What Happened: The attack began when the user perry.parsons on workstation WKSTN-03 needed a 7-Zip tool. He googled it, clicked a typosquatted link ( 7zipp.org ), and downloaded a trojanized installer. This installer executed a PowerShell script ( 7z.ps1 ) directly from the attacker's server to establish the initial foothold. How to Find It: You are looking for a PowerShell process that was likely spawned by a browser and contains a command to download and execute a script ( iwr for Invoke-WebRequest and iex for Invoke-Expression ). KQL Query...
This is another challenge for the Blue Team, but the level here is hard. Once the machine starts, we will receive credentials that allow us to dig into the logs directly. By exploring the attacker’s footsteps, we will identify which pages of the web application they accessed. Additionally, we have full access to the backend code of the running application once we log in via SSH. So I am not running any directory fuzzing tool. All Details are in the video Thank you for watching
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