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Written by Joshua Prager and Emily Leidy Introduction Strategically maturing a detection engineering function requires us to divide the overall function into smaller discrete problems. One such seemingly innocuous area of detection engineering is the technique backlog (a.k.a. the detection engineering backlog, attack technique backlog, or detection backlog). The concept of incorporating a backlog into the […]
Part 7: Synonyms “Experience is forever in motion, ramifying and unpredictable. In order for us to know anything at all, that thing must have enduring properties. If all things flow, and one can never step into the same river twice — Heraclitus’s phrase is, I believe, a brilliant evocation of the core reality of the right hemisphere’s world — one […]
Beyond COM In a previous blog post of mine — WMI Internals Part 2: Reversing a WMI Provider I walked through how the WMI architecture is foundationally built upon COM and in turn how WMI classes can end up invoking COM methods to perform actions. I used the PS_ScheduledTask WMI class as an example and how when […]
Part 6: What is a Procedure? Physical reality has structures at all levels of metric size from atoms to galaxies. Within the intermediate band of terrestrial sizes, the environment of animals and men is itself structured at various levels of size. At the level of kilometers, the earth is shaped by mountains and hills. At […]
Get Your SOCKS on with gTunnel tl;dr Steps to setup a wicked fast SOCKS proxy with a tool called gTunnel written by hotnops Foreword First and foremost, I would like to take a moment to commemorate my first ever blog post! See the confetti falling through the air, hear the raucous cheering and the whistles and whoops, […]
Part 5: Expanding the Operation Graph Welcome back to the On Detection: Tactical to Functional blog series. Previously we discussed operations and sequences of operations that I call operation paths. This article will explore the idea that there must be one operation path for any given technique or sub-technique, but there can be many. When […]
Part 4: Compound Functions Introduction Welcome back to the On Detection: Tactical to Functional series (links to all posts are at the bottom of the post). Thus far, we’ve explored the OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory sub-technique, specifically mimikatz, as an example to understand how this sub-technique works. The first post focused on identifying the […]
Part 3: Expanding the Function Call Graph Introduction In the previous post in this series, I introduced the concept of operations and demonstrated how each operation has a function call graph that undergirds it. In that post, I purposely presented incomplete, relative to my knowledge, function call graphs because I wanted only to show the extent […]
