Finally, as the last part of the blog series we will have a look at the network traffic observed. We will do this in two sections, the first one will cover a few things useful to know if we are in the situation that Wireshark can dissect the traffic for us. The second section will … Continue reading Investigating an engineering workstation – Part 4
This blog post will create a Sysmon archive quota through WMI event consumption to avoid storage exhaustion.
NVISO is proud to announce that it has successfully qualified as an APT Response service provider and is now recommended on the website of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).⯠AdvancedâŻPersistent Threats (APT) are typically described as attack campaigns in which highly skilled, often state-sponsored, intruders orchestrate targeted, long-term attacks. Due to their … Continue reading NVISO approved as APT Response Service Provider
In our third blog post (part one and two are referenced above) we will focus on information we can get from the projects itself. You may remember from Part 1 that a project created with the TIA Portal is not a single file. So far we talked about files with the â.apXXâ extension, like â.ap15_1â … Continue reading Investigating an engineering workstation – Part 3
In this second post we will focus on specific evidence written by the TIA Portal. As you might remember, in the first part we covered standard Windows-based artefacts regarding execution of the TIA Portal and usage of projects. The TIA Portal maintains a file called âSettings.xmlâ under the following path: C:\Users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Siemens\Portal V15_1\Settings\. Please remember we … Continue reading Investigating an engineering workstation – Part 2
This is an overview of a series of 6 blog posts we dedicated to the analysis and decryption of Cobalt Strike traffic. We include videos for different analysis methods. In part 1, we explain that Cobalt Strike traffic is encrypted using RSA and AES cryptography, and that we found private RSA keys that can help … Continue reading Cobalt Strike: Overview – Part 7
In this series of blog posts we will deal with the investigation of an engineering workstation running Windows 10 with the Siemens TIA Portal Version 15.1 installed. In this first part we will cover some selected classic Windows-based evidence sources, and how they behave with regards to the execution of the TIA Portal and interaction … Continue reading Investigating an engineering workstation – Part 1
This is an overview of different methods to create and analyze memory dumps of Cobalt Strike beacons. This series of blog posts describes different methods to decrypt Cobalt Strike traffic. In part 1 of this series, we revealed private encryption keys found in rogue Cobalt Strike packages. In part 2, we decrypted Cobalt Strike traffic starting with … Continue reading Cobalt Strike: Memory Dumps – Part 6
If you read about the Amcache registry hive and what information it contains, you will find a lot of references that it contains the SHA-1 hash of the file in the corresponding registry entry. Now that especially comes in handy if files are deleted from disk. You can use the SHA-1 extracted from the Amcache … Continue reading Amcache contains SHA-1 Hash – It Depends!
Cobalt Strike beacons can communicate over DNS. We show how to decode and decrypt DNS traffic in this blog post. This series of blog posts describes different methods to decrypt Cobalt Strike traffic. In part 1 of this series, we revealed private encryption keys found in rogue Cobalt Strike packages. In part 2, we decrypted … Continue reading Cobalt Strike: Decrypting DNS Traffic – Part 5
