blue tangle

  In part one of these blog entries on command line obfuscation in Windows ( which you can find here , if you haven't read it), we covered some real basic SPL for detecting the usage of double quotes to potentially circumvent SIEM detections. One of the things I forgot to mention then is that counting specific characters in fields has a lot of potential uses within Splunk searches if you are prepared to think outside the box a little. For instance let's say you were looking at Apache web logs and you were wanting to find instances of directory (or path) traversal, someone appending something like "../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00" to a url to try to get at your valuable files, you could modify the SPL as follows:   index=apache sourcetype=access_combined | eval traversalCount=mvcount(split( uri,"."))-1 | where traversalCount >=4 | stats values(uri) BY traversalCount clientip status   This would give you any instances of uris containing

  If you want inspiration for a slidedeck on the history of ransomware look no further. Where I wanted to nail down specific dates I looked for when ransomware strains or incidents made the mainstream news and used that as my base timeline. The slides cover the first incident of data held for ransom that I could find (in 1981) through to Karakurt as what I see as the future of ransomware, touching on targeted ransomware attacks and the advent of Big Game Hunting in between. The talk is made to be delivered in about 25 - 30 minutes, though I was cutting it rather close with that timing. Feel free to use and alter this PowerPoint as you wish.