Video & Animation

Detect PowerShell Empire post-exploitation framework artifacts in Windows Script Block Logging (Event ID 4104) and Module Logging (Event ID 4103), including the default launcher string, Base64-encoded WebClient/FromBase64String payloads, known module invocations (Invoke-Mimikatz, Invoke-Kerberoast), and staging URL patterns. Use when hunting for or confirming Empire C2 activity in Windows event logs.

Parse Windows PowerShell Script Block Logs (Event ID 4104) from EVTX

Parse Windows Prefetch files (versions 17, 23, 26, 30) with tools like PECmd, WinPrefetchView, or python-prefetch to determine program execution history, including run counts, execution timestamps, and referenced files/DLLs. Use when building a timeline of program execution on a Windows system, confirming whether a suspicious binary ran, or correlating execution evidence with other forensic artifacts during an investigation.

Captures and analyzes network packet data using Wireshark and tshark

Parse Office 365 Unified Audit Logs via Microsoft Graph API to detect

Parse Microsoft Outlook PST and OST files using libpff and pst-utils to extract message content, headers, attachments, deleted items, and MAPI metadata, including recovery of items from the Recoverable Items folder. Use when conducting email forensic investigations, legal e-discovery, or incident response that requires reconstructing communication patterns or tracing message routing from Outlook archives.

Analyzes network traffic captures and flow data to identify adversary activity during security incidents, including

Analyzes network traffic generated by malware during sandbox execution

Use Scapy to craft, send, sniff, and dissect TCP/UDP/ICMP/DNS packets, analyze pcap files, implement SYN scans, and detect anomalous traffic such as fragmented or malformed packets. Use when performing authorized network reconnaissance, protocol-level forensic analysis, or building traffic anomaly detection during security testing.

Identifies and unpacks UPX-packed malware samples, including binaries with modified UPX magic bytes or headers that block automated decompression, to recover the original executable for static analysis. Use when a sample shows high entropy, minimal imports, or only LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress in its import table, or when preparing a packed binary for disassembly in Ghidra or IDA.

Parse NetFlow v9 and IPFIX records to detect volumetric anomalies, port

Detect and analyze covert communication channels used by malware, including

Detect sandbox and VM evasion techniques in malware samples by analyzing

Analyzes RAM memory dumps from compromised systems using the Volatility framework to identify malicious processes,

Performs Linux memory acquisition using LiME (Linux Memory Extractor)

Analyzes malicious PDF files using PDFiD, pdf-parser, and peepdf to

Analyze the NTFS Master File Table ($MFT) with MFTECmd, analyzeMFT,

Scan Linux systems for persistence mechanisms including crontab/systemd entries, LD_PRELOAD injection, shell profile modifications (.bashrc, .profile), and SSH authorized_keys backdoors, then correlate findings with auditd logs into an installation timeline. Use during incident response or threat hunting to detect or confirm how an adversary maintained access to a compromised Linux host.

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Use Sysinternals Autoruns to systematically enumerate and analyze malware

URLScan.io is a free service for scanning and analyzing suspicious URLs.

Detonate malware samples in Cuckoo Sandbox to observe runtime behavior

Query the Malpedia API to look up malware family aliases and naming

Examine Linux system artifacts (auth logs, cron/systemd persistence,