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This skill guides the security hardening of Windows endpoints (10/11, Server 2019/2022) using established CIS Benchmarks. It provides a comprehensive workflow for establishing secure organizational baselines, configuring Group Policy Objects (GPOs), and enforcing security controls across critical areas like password policies, audit logs, and firewall rules. It is essential for achieving compliance with standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2.

This guide details how to hunt for DCSync attacks, a technique used to steal password hashes from Active Directory. It involves analyzing Windows Event ID 4662 to identify unauthorized DS-Replication-Get-Changes requests originating from non-domain-controller accounts. Essential for incident response and threat detection.

This skill detects WMI-based lateral movement by analyzing key Windows Security Event ID 4688 and Sysmon Event ID 1 logs. It focuses on identifying suspicious process execution patterns, such as WmiPrvSE.exe spawning unauthorized child processes (cmd.exe, powershell.exe), suspicious command lines, and WMI event subscriptions used for persistence. Ideal for security incident response and threat detection.

This skill focuses on threat hunting techniques to detect adversaries leveraging Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBins). By analyzing detailed endpoint process creation logs (e.g., Sysmon), practitioners can identify suspicious execution patterns of legitimate Windows system binaries (like certutil, mshta, rundll32) used for malicious fileless attacks or defense evasion. It is crucial for improving detection coverage against advanced persistent threats.

This skill provides advanced threat hunting capabilities to detect NTLM relay attacks within Active Directory environments. It analyzes critical Windows Security Event 4624 logs, specifically focusing on logon type 3 using NTLMSSP authentication. The detection logic identifies suspicious patterns, including IP-to-hostname mismatches, rapid multi-host authentications, and lack of SMB signing enforcement, helping SOC analysts pinpoint unauthorized credential access attempts.

This guide details a threat hunting technique for detecting persistence mechanisms utilizing Windows Registry Run keys (T1547.001). By analyzing Sysmon Event ID 13 logs, it identifies suspicious auto-start entries pointing to temporary directories, encoded PowerShell commands, or abused LOLBins. Essential for SOC analysts and security engineers investigating incidents and developing robust detection rules.

A comprehensive threat hunting methodology designed to detect adversary persistence and execution mechanisms utilizing Windows Scheduled Tasks (T1053.005). This guide covers analyzing task creation events (Event ID 4698), suspicious properties, unusual triggers, and correlating activity with process execution logs (Sysmon). Ideal for incident responders and security analysts conducting proactive threat hunting on compromised endpoints.

This skill guides threat hunters in detecting MITRE ATT&CK T1098 account manipulation techniques. It focuses on analyzing Windows Security Event Logs (like 4738, 4728) to uncover shadow administration creation, suspicious group membership changes, SID history injection, and unauthorized credential modifications, crucial for incident response and building robust detection rules.

A specialized threat hunting skill that analyzes System event logs (Event ID 7045) to detect suspicious Windows service installations. It parses service binary paths, identifies indicators of persistence mechanisms, and maps findings to MITRE ATT&CK techniques (T1543.003), helping security analysts uncover covert persistence methods.

Monitors Windows process creation events to flag Living Off The Land Binary abuse by matching Event ID 4688/Sysmon 1 logs against LOLBAS database entries, supporting threat hunting and SIEM rule creation for fileless attacks.

This guide details how to implement advanced SIEM correlation rules to detect sophisticated Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). By chaining multiple event types—including Windows authentication events, process execution telemetry, and network connection logs—across hosts, users can surface complex attack sequences that are invisible to single-event detections. It utilizes Splunk SPL and Sigma rule formats for robust security posture enhancement.

Utilize Velociraptor, an advanced open-source platform, to collect, query, and monitor forensic artifacts across diverse endpoints (Windows, Linux, macOS). This skill enables incident response teams to perform large-scale, rapid digital forensic investigations by collecting critical data such as event logs, registry entries, prefetch files, and network metadata using VQL queries.