Detect NTLM relay attacks through Windows Security Event correlation by analyzing Event 4624 LogonType 3 for IP-to-hostname mismatches, identifying Responder/LLMNR poisoning artifacts, auditing SMB and LDAP signing enforcement across the domain, and detecting NTLM downgrade attacks from NTLMv2 to NTLMv1 using event log analysis.
Detects and responds to OAuth token theft and replay attacks in cloud environments, focusing on Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) token protection, conditional access policies, and sign-in anomaly detection. Covers access token theft, refresh token replay, Primary Refresh Token (PRT) abuse, and pass-the-cookie attacks. Activates for requests involving OAuth token theft detection, token replay prevention, Azure AD conditional access token protection, or cloud identity attack investigation.
Detect Kerberos Pass-the-Ticket (PtT) attacks by analyzing Windows Event IDs 4768, 4769, and 4771 for anomalous ticket usage patterns in Splunk and Elastic SIEM
Detect process hollowing (T1055.012) by analyzing memory-mapped sections, hollowed process indicators, and parent-child process anomalies in EDR telemetry.
Detects and analyzes process injection techniques used by malware including classic DLL injection, process hollowing, APC injection, thread hijacking, and reflective loading. Uses memory forensics, API monitoring, and behavioral analysis to identify injection artifacts. Activates for requests involving process injection detection, code injection analysis, hollowed process investigation, or in-memory threat detection.
Detects ransomware encryption activity in real time using entropy analysis, file system I/O monitoring, and behavioral heuristics. Identifies mass file modification patterns, abnormal entropy spikes in written data, and suspicious process behavior characteristic of ransomware encryption routines. Activates for requests involving ransomware behavioral detection, entropy-based file monitoring, I/O anomaly detection, or real-time encryption activity alerting.
Detects early-stage ransomware indicators in network traffic before encryption begins, including initial access broker activity, command-and-control beaconing, credential harvesting, reconnaissance scanning, and staging behavior. Uses network detection tools (Zeek, Suricata, Arkime), SIEM correlation rules, and threat intelligence feeds to identify ransomware precursor patterns such as Cobalt Strike beacons, Mimikatz network signatures, and RDP brute-force attempts. Activates for requests involving pre-ransomware detection, network-based ransomware indicators, or early warning ransomware monitoring.
Detect RDP brute force attacks by analyzing Windows Security Event Logs for failed authentication patterns (Event ID 4625), successful logons after failures (Event ID 4624), NLA failures, and source IP frequency analysis.
Detects rootkit presence on compromised systems by identifying hidden processes, hooked system calls, modified kernel structures, hidden files, and covert network connections using memory forensics, cross-view detection, and integrity checking techniques. Activates for requests involving rootkit detection, hidden process discovery, kernel integrity checking, or system call hook analysis.
Detecting data exfiltration attempts from AWS S3 buckets by analyzing CloudTrail S3 data events, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty findings, Amazon Macie alerts, and S3 access patterns to identify unauthorized bulk downloads and cross-account data transfers.
Detects and prevents code injection attacks targeting serverless functions (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions) through event source poisoning, malicious layer injection, runtime command execution, and IAM privilege escalation via function modification. The analyst combines static analysis of function code, CloudTrail event correlation, runtime behavior monitoring, and IAM policy auditing to identify injection vectors across the expanded serverless attack surface including API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, and CloudWatch event triggers. Activates for requests involving Lambda security assessment, serverless injection detection, function event poisoning analysis, or serverless privilege escalation investigation.
Detect abuse of service accounts through anomalous interactive logons, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and unauthorized access patterns.
Discover and inventory shadow API endpoints that operate outside documented specifications using traffic analysis, code scanning, and API discovery platforms.
Detect unauthorized SaaS and cloud service usage (shadow IT) by analyzing proxy logs, DNS query logs, and netflow data using Python pandas for traffic pattern analysis and domain classification.
Analyze WAF (ModSecurity/AWS WAF/Cloudflare) logs to detect SQL injection attack campaigns. Parses ModSecurity audit logs and JSON WAF event logs to identify SQLi patterns (UNION SELECT, OR 1=1, SLEEP(), BENCHMARK()), tracks attack sources, correlates multi-stage injection attempts, and generates incident reports with OWASP classification.
This skill covers detecting sophisticated cyber-physical attacks that follow the Stuxnet attack pattern of modifying PLC logic while spoofing sensor readings to hide the manipulation from operators. It addresses PLC logic integrity monitoring, physics-based process anomaly detection, engineering workstation compromise indicators, USB-borne attack vectors, and multi-stage attack chain detection spanning IT-to-OT lateral movement through to process manipulation.
Detect suspicious PowerShell execution patterns including encoded commands, download cradles, AMSI bypass attempts, and constrained language mode evasion.
Detects typosquatting attacks in npm and PyPI package registries by analyzing package name similarity using Levenshtein distance and other string metrics, examining publish date heuristics to identify recently created packages mimicking established ones, and flagging download count anomalies where suspicious packages have disproportionately low usage compared to their legitimate targets. The analyst queries the PyPI JSON API and npm registry API to gather package metadata for automated comparison. Activates for requests involving package typosquatting detection, dependency confusion analysis, malicious package identification, or software supply chain threat hunting in package registries.
Executes comprehensive red team exercises that simulate real-world adversary operations against an organization's people, processes, and technology. The red team operates with stealth as a primary objective, employing the full attack lifecycle from initial reconnaissance through objective completion while testing the organization's detection and response capabilities. This differs from penetration testing by focusing on adversary emulation rather than vulnerability identification. Activates for requests involving red team exercise, adversary simulation, adversary emulation, or full-scope offensive security assessment.
BloodHound is a graph-based Active Directory reconnaissance tool that uses graph theory to reveal hidden and unintended relationships within AD environments. Red teams use BloodHound to identify attac
Analyzes and simulates BGP hijacking scenarios in authorized lab environments to assess route origin validation, RPKI deployment, and BGP monitoring defenses against prefix hijacking and route leak attacks on internet routing infrastructure.
Discover and exploit broken link hijacking vulnerabilities by identifying references to expired domains, decommissioned cloud resources, and dead external services that can be claimed by an attacker.
Tests and exploits deep link (URL scheme and App Link) vulnerabilities in Android and iOS mobile applications to identify unauthorized access, data injection, intent hijacking, and redirect manipulation. Use when assessing mobile app attack surface through custom URI schemes, Android App Links, iOS Universal Links, or intent-based navigation. Activates for requests involving deep link security testing, URL scheme exploitation, mobile intent abuse, or link hijacking.
Tests APIs for excessive data exposure where endpoints return more data than the client application needs, relying on the frontend to filter sensitive fields. The tester intercepts API responses and analyzes them for leaked PII, internal identifiers, debug information, or sensitive business data that the UI does not display but the API transmits. This maps to OWASP API3:2023 Broken Object Property Level Authorization. Activates for requests involving API data leakage testing, excessive data exposure, response filtering bypass, or API over-fetching.
