Tag Archives: Logs

Analyzing & Detecting IIS Backdoors

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IIS Extensions As Backdoors Microsoft recently published an interesting blog explaining how they’ve noticed a new trend where attackers have been leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to covertly backdoor Windows servers: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/07/26/malicious-iis-extensions-quietly-open-persistent-backdoors-into-servers/ The Microsoft post contains a wealth of Continue reading →

Gathering Windows, PowerShell and Sysmon Events with Winlogbeat – ELK 7 – Windows Server 2016 (Part II)

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In part I of this series, Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) on Windows Server 2016, I covered the following: Installing and configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as Windows services Installing and configuring Winlogbeat to forward logs from the Continue reading →

Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) – Windows Server 2016 (Part I)

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I am a huge fan of the Elastic stack as it can provide a great deal of visibility into even the largest of environments, which can help enable both engineering and security teams rapidly triage technical issues or incidents at Continue reading →

Apache Struts CVE-2018-11776 – Testing, Analyzing, & Detection

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Intro Any time a new Apache Struts vulnerability comes out it should be taken pretty seriously as there are many “mission critical” systems that are leveraging the framework, with a considerable amount of them being public facing. Unfortunately, as a Continue reading →

ELK Stack – Installing and Configuring Curator

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In this post I am going to quickly cover what is needed to get Curator up and running on the ELK stack. In the last few posts about the ELK stack I covered everything needed to get it installed, configured Continue reading →

ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 3 – Installing and Configuring Beats Agents on Windows Clients

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In the previous two posts I went over everything from installing Ubuntu to getting the ELK stack setup and ingesting logs from itself. Now in this final post in the series I am going to cover collecting Windows Event and Continue reading →

ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 2 – Installing and Configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana & Nginx

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In part one of this series, I went over the basics of installing and configuring Ubuntu 16.04. Now in this part, I am going to take that same VM and go over everything needed to create a functional ELK stack Continue reading →