2 posts tagged with "Security"

Hack The Box is an online cybersecurity training platform that allows individuals to test and advance their skills in penetration testing, digital forensics, and incident response. The "Sherlocks" are a series of defensive challenges focused on digital forensics and incident response (DFIR).

This post covers the "Brutus" Sherlock - investigating a brute-force attack against a Confluence server's SSH service. I'll walk through analyzing logs to trace the attacker's path from initial access to privilege escalation and persistence.

This post covers the Unit42 Sherlock, a challenge inspired by a real-world UltraVNC campaign researched by Palo Alto's Unit42 team.

In this investigation, I'll be diving into Sysmon logs and analyzing various Event IDs to trace malicious activities on a compromised Windows system.