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This skill guides SOC analysts and detection engineers on how to correlate complex, multi-stage attacks within the IBM QRadar SIEM platform. It covers advanced usage of AQL (Ariel Query Language) for deep event investigation, building custom correlation rules (Building Blocks and Offenses), and cross-source data correlation (e.g., auth failures with network flows). It is essential for reducing false positives and improving threat detection accuracy.

Provides analysts with a workflow to hunt and investigate credential dumping (LSASS, SAM, NTDS, DCSync) using EDR telemetry, Sysmon access events, and AD replication monitoring.

A comprehensive guide and analysis framework for detecting compromised Office 365 or Google Workspace email accounts. It focuses on analyzing unified audit logs and Azure AD sign-in logs to identify indicators of account takeover (ATO) or Business Email Compromise (BEC). Detection methods include monitoring impossible travel events, identifying malicious inbox rules (e.g., external forwarding or deletion rules), and analyzing suspicious Microsoft Graph API access patterns.

This skill provides a structured methodology for detecting persistence and lateral movement via malicious scheduled tasks. It utilizes Sysmon Event IDs (1, 11) and Windows Security Events (4698/4702) to correlate process creation, task file writes, and task registration details. Ideal for threat hunting and building robust detection rules for T1053.005.

Detects and prevents privilege escalation in Kubernetes pods by combining admission control, runtime monitoring, and audit log analysis. Covers security contexts, Linux capabilities, and syscall patterns. Use when investigating pods running as root or privileged, hardening workloads against in-pod escalation, or hunting for containers exceeding their intended scope.

This skill provides a structured method for analyzing Windows Security Event Logs (EVTX) to detect brute force attacks targeting RDP endpoints. It involves parsing failed logon events (Event ID 4625) and correlating them with successful logons (Event ID 4624), while also analyzing source IP frequency and NLA bypass attempts. Ideal for security incident investigation, blue-team threat hunting, and building SIEM detection rules.

A comprehensive guide for threat hunting, detailing detection methods for the abuse of elevation controls (T1548). It covers both Windows environments (UAC bypass via registry modification and auto-elevating binaries like fodhelper.exe) and Linux systems (sudo/setuid abuse). Use this to monitor system events, registry changes, and process relationships to identify unauthorized privilege escalation attempts.

A comprehensive guide for threat hunters and incident responders to detect WMI-based persistence mechanisms (MITRE T1546.003). It details the analysis of Sysmon Event IDs 19, 20, and 21, cross-referencing these events with root\subscription namespaces and using tools like Autoruns and SIEM analysis for robust detection.

A comprehensive tool for security analysts to hunt for malicious PowerShell activity. It analyzes Windows Event Log (EVTX) files by parsing Script Block Logging (Event 4104), Module Logging (4103), and process creation events. Detects obfuscated commands, AMSI bypass attempts, encoded payloads, and credential dumping techniques crucial for incident response and threat hunting.

This tool analyzes Windows Event Logs (ID 4688, Sysmon ID 1) and WMI-Activity Operational events to detect suspicious lateral movement. It specifically hunts for WmiPrvSE.exe spawning child processes (like cmd.exe or powershell.exe) or identifying WMI event subscriptions, which are common indicators of remote code execution and persistence.

A comprehensive guide for hypothesis-driven threat hunting focusing on Windows Scheduled Task persistence (T1053). This methodology guides the creation of advanced SIEM/EDR queries against critical events like task creation (Event ID 4698), suspicious actions, and unusual scheduling patterns. Essential for incident response, proactive threat hunting, and security assessments.

This skill performs threat hunting for persistence mechanisms by parsing Windows System event logs (Event ID 7045). It specifically detects suspicious service installations, analyzing service binary paths, and correlating these events with advanced telemetry (Sysmon/EDR) to identify indicators of compromise (MITRE ATT&CK T1543.003). Ideal for incident response and security validation.