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TLP - The Digital Forensics Podcast
Get involved in the exciting world of Digital Forensics and Incident Response with: Traffic Light Protocol. The Digital Forensics Podcast.
In each episode, we sit down with seasoned DFIR professionals, the blueteamers who work around the clock to investigate cyber intrusions. From data breaches to cyberattacks, they share firsthand accounts of some of the most intense investigations they've ever tackled, how they deal with burnout and the added pressure of cat and mouse while they learn about new attack chains.
TLP - The Digital Forensics Podcast
Episode 15 -Windows event log analysis with Hayabusa. The Sigma-based log analysis tool
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Clint Marsden
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Season 1
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Episode 15
Key Takeaways:
- Introduction to Hayabusa: Hayabusa is an open-source Windows Event Log Analysis Tool used for processing EVTX logs to detect suspicious activities in Windows environments.
- Critical Alerts Detection: The tool is capable of detecting a variety of suspicious activities, including WannaCry ransomware and unauthorized Active Directory replication.
- Efficient Incident Response: Hayabusa is ideal for incident response workflows, enabling teams to quickly triage and analyze Windows logs to detect potential breaches or malicious activity.
- Importance of Informational Alerts: Informational alerts can indicate early reconnaissance phases of attacks and should not be dismissed.
- Hypothesis-Driven Threat Hunting: Build a threat hunting hypothesis using MITRE ATT&CK or industry-specific threat intelligence to narrow the focus of the search.
- Integration with SIEM and TimeSketch: Hayabusa supports integration with security tools like SIEM and can export logs into TimeSketch for further analysis and visualization.
- Open-source and Free: Hayabusa is freely available to the cybersecurity community, making it an essential tool for threat detection without added cost.
