Detection

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20 Nov 2023

DEATHcon2023: Practical DEATH by Velociraptor

A practical Velociraptor and VQL workshop for investigators, covering accessors, query performance, RDP patching, BlackLotus and LNK analysis.

Open workshop

13 Sep 2023

Content Management Like a Boss!

Velociraptor content management and automation techniques for teams maintaining detection and investigation content.

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17 Nov 2022

DetectRaptor

Bulk Velociraptor detection content for incident responders and threat hunters. Collects shared detection artifacts in one repository.

GitHub repository

5 Nov 2022

DEATHcon 2022 Velociraptor workshop

An introductory Velociraptor workshop for DFIR practitioners, covering VQL, NTFS, event logs, YARA and memory artifacts. Includes lab material and recordings.

Lab scripts

17 Sep 2022

Notebook and VQL - data munging your way to victory!

A practical introduction to VQL data manipulation for Velociraptor users, with examples for building artifacts and analysing investigation data.

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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.

9 Nov 2021

Cobalt Strike Payload Discovery And Data Manipulation In VQL

Discover encoded Cobalt Strike payloads in MSBuild task files, collect them with Velociraptor and use VQL to decode payloads and extract indicators.

26 Jun 2019

Endpoint Hunting in an AntiEDR World

Endpoint hunting techniques for defenders investigating activity that bypasses EDR. Includes presentation slides and examples of detection evasion.

Presentation slides

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.