forensics▌

Deploy Zeek network security monitor to capture, parse, and analyze network traffic metadata for threat detection, anomaly identification, and forensic investigation.

Extract cached credentials, password hashes, Kerberos tickets, and authentication tokens from memory dumps using Volatility and Mimikatz for forensic investigation.

Build comprehensive forensic super-timelines using Plaso (log2timeline) to correlate events across file systems, logs, and artifacts into a unified chronological view.

Recover files from disk images and unallocated space using Foremost's header-footer signature carving to extract evidence regardless of file system state.

Systematically investigate all persistence mechanisms on Windows and Linux systems to identify how malware survives reboots and maintains access.

Uses Falco YAML rules for runtime threat detection in containers and Kubernetes, monitoring syscalls for shell spawns, file tampering, network anomalies, and privilege escalation. Manages Falco rules via the Falco gRPC API and parses Falco alert output. Use when building container runtime security or investigating k8s cluster compromises.

Parse Windows LNK shortcut files to extract target paths, timestamps, volume information, and machine identifiers for forensic timeline reconstruction.

Uses the Linux Audit framework (auditd) with ausearch and aureport utilities to detect intrusion attempts, unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and suspicious system activity. Covers audit rule configuration, log querying, timeline reconstruction, and integration with SIEM platforms. Activates for requests involving auditd analysis, Linux audit log investigation, ausearch queries, aureport summaries, or host-based intrusion detection on Linux.

Extract and analyze Windows Registry hives to uncover user activity, installed software, autostart entries, and evidence of system compromise.

Investigate compromised Docker containers by analyzing images, layers, volumes, logs, and runtime artifacts to identify malicious activity and evidence.