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  • Incident Response and Forensics – The two towers

    Readers Been meaning write something about my experience with Incident response and forensics and how knowledge of both field helped me. Most of the organisations have Incident Response and Forensics as 2 different department and no overlap of services or transparency is seen between them. Personally, I believe it is… Read More ⇢

  • Penetration Testing and Rules of engagement

    Readers This post is about globally accepted LEGAL technique to exploit a system or network to validate their deployment of security controls. Yes I am talking about PENETRATION TESTING. With this post I would like to share an ideal approach during penetration testing and importance in following the rules of… Read More ⇢

  • Ransomware extensions and filenames

    As we all know Ransomware is currently one of the biggest threat to any organisation and therefore we must understand how a ransomware works and its digital footprint. Every application when executed leaves a footprint on the system and sometimes we call them dropper. A footprint for Microsoft word is… Read More ⇢

  • Threat Hunting and Pyramid of Pain

    The buzz word first came in 2014 and individuals who were actually performing activities such as hunting for adversaries within network interested in Threat Hunting agreed with it on all aspects. During Threat Hunting and/or intelligence gathering or incident response we are mostly concentrating on identifying indicators of compromise and… Read More ⇢

  • Phishing SMS – A failed attempt

    Just about an hour ago I received an text from one of my mentors. Excited, I read but I know him very well and knew it wasn’t him. The phishing text : It’s possible to do 10 k in 10 day. hxxp://www.prosperity-today.com I texted him directly with a new message… Read More ⇢

  • YARA rule for Dridex

    Have been learning YARA from few days and below is my first YARA rule for a IOCs collected while analysing a word document. Analysis concluded with presence of Dridex malware. rule dridex : dridex { meta: description = “Dridex Malware Indicators” author = “Kunal Makwana” date = “2016/04/03” thread_level =… Read More ⇢

  • List of IOCs collected so far

    Hunters, This post is to share indicators of compromise that I collected so far for analysis and investigation that I have been doing. Most of the them are collected from other websites as json, MISP exports etc. Normally I update that back to csirtg.io/users/makflwana but I just wanted to share… Read More ⇢

  • A javascript file – Invoice from UK

    It’s been quite a while I was able to analyse my spam emails. Recently, I received an email with a zip attachment claiming to be an invoice. Screenshot of the email below. Email Analysis : sender : Woodard.52@sunshine-yorkshire.co.uk IP – extracted from the header : 130.204.206.58 – 602ad0ccae26.softphone.blizoo.bg – Blugaria Sender… Read More ⇢

  • The Vendor, The MSSPs and The Consultant

    I have been waiting for quite a while to write something about my experience with vendors, MSSPs and consultants. This is my own opinion and is not targeting any specific entity. I have worked with multiple vendors, MSSPs and consultants and what I have always noticed is, the “OUR” attitude.… Read More ⇢