Detection Engineering

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12 Jan 2022

WMI Event Consumers: what are you missing?

Find WMI event consumers that common collection methods miss, including persistence in custom namespaces. Covers collection and detection with Velociraptor.

29 May 2019

Binary Rename 2

Compare YARA and PowerShell approaches to finding renamed executables on disk, with code examples and detection limitations.

12 May 2019

Blue Team Hacks - Binary Rename

Detect renamed Windows binaries by comparing executable metadata with process names and paths. Includes a proof of concept and its limitations.

2 Apr 2018

Powershell Download Cradles

Compare PowerShell download cradles and their network and endpoint traces, with test scripts to help assess detection coverage.

3 Apr 2017

Blue Team Hacks - WMI Eventing

Use WMI event subscriptions to monitor processes and trigger file collection on older Windows systems with visibility gaps.