Masterclass: System Forensics, Incident Handling And Threat Hunting

Course content:

Module 1: Introduction to Windows Internals

1. Introduction to Windows Internals
2. Processes and Threads
3. PID and TID
4. Information Gathering from Running Operating System
5. Obtaining Volatile Data
6. A Deep Dive into Autoruns
7. Effective Permissions Auditing
8. PowerShell Get NTFS Permissions
9. Obtaining Permissions Information with Access Check
10. Unnecessary and Malicious Services
11. Detecting Unnecessary Services with PowerShell
    

Module 2: Securing Monitoring Operations & Threat Hunting

1. Types of Hunting
2. Defining Hunt Missions
3. Malware Hiding Techniques
4. Uncovering Internal Reconnaissance
5. Uncovering Lateral Movement
6. Uncovering Hidden Network Transmissions
   

Module 3: Handling Malicious Code Incidents

1. Count of Malware Samples
2. Virus, Worms, Trojans, and Spywares
3. Incident Handling Preparation
4. Incident Prevention
5. Detection of Malicious Code
6. Containment Strategy
7. Evidence Gathering and Handling Eradication and Recovery

Module 4: Static Malware Analysis

1. Static Malware Analysis Scenarios
2. Types and Goals of Malware Analysis
3. Cloud-Based Malware Analysis
4. Incident Prevention and Response Steps
5. Containment and Mitigation
6. Executable analysis
7. Static Analysis Tools

Module 5: Behavioral Malware Analysis and Threat Hunting

1. Malware Detonation
2. Sysinternals Suite
3. Network Communication Analysis
4. Monitoring System Events
5. Memory Dump Analysis
6. Simulation a Real Environment

Module 6: Network Forensics and Monitoring

1. Types and Approaches to Network Monitoring
2. Network Evidence Acquisition
3. Network Protocols and Logs
4. LAB: Detecting Data Thievery
5. LAB: Detecting WebShells
6. Gathering Data from Network Security Appliances
7. Detecting Intrusion Patterns and Attack Indicators
8. Data Correlation
9. Hunting Malware in Network Traffic
10. Encoding and Encryption
11. Denial-of-Service Incidents
12. Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
13. Detecting DoS Attack
14. Incident Handling Preparations for DoS
15. DoS Response and Preventing Strategies
    

Module 7: Memory: Dumping and Analysis

1. Introduction to Memory Dumping and Analysis
   
2. Creating Memory Dump - Belkasoft RAM Capturer and DumpIt
   
3. Utilizing Volatility to Analyze Windows Memory Image
   
4. Analyzing Stuxnet Memory Dump with Volatility
   
5. Automatic Memory Analysis with Volatile
   

Module 8: Memory: Indicators of compromise

1. Yara Rules Language
   
2. Malware Detonation
   
3. Introduction to Reverse Engineering
   

Module 9: Disk: Storage Acquisition and Analysis

1. Introduction to Storage Acquisition and Analysis
   
2. Drive Acquisition
   
3. Mounting Forensic Disk Images
   
4. Virtual Disk images
   
5. Signature vs. File Carving
   
6. Introduction to NTFS File System
   
7. Windows File System Analysis
   
8. Autopsy with Other filesystems
   
9. External Device Usage Data Extraction (USB Usage etc.)
   
10. Reviving the Account Usage
    
11. Extracting Data Related with the Recent Use of Application, File etc.
12. Recovering Data after Deleting Partitions
13. Extracting Delete File and File Related Information
14. Extracting Data from File Artifacts Like $STANDARD_INFORMATION etc.
15. Password Recovery
16. Extracting Windows Indexing Service data
17. Deep-dive into Automatic Destinations
18. Detailed Analysis of Windows Prefetch
19. Extracting Information about
20. Program execution (UserAssist, RecentApps, Shimcache, appcompatcache etc.)
21. Extracting information about browser usage (web browsing history, cache, cookies etc.) 
22. Communicator Apps Data Extraction
23. Extracting Information about
24. Network Activity
25. Building Timelines

Module 10: Malicious Non-Exe Files

1. Alternative Binaries
2. PowerShell Scripts
3. Office Documents
4. Jscript
5. HTML Documents
6. Living off the Land Binaries