Hunting injected processes by the modules they keep

A relatively recent post showed how Metasploit's Meterpreter module made some noise on endpoints when the migrate command was used to move the agent code into a legitimate process, spoolsv.exe in our ...
Kansa: Get-LogparserStack.ps1

Kansa: Get-LogparserStack.ps1

Kansa is an incident response framework written in PowerShell, useful for data collection and analysis. Most of the analysis capabilities in Kansa require Logparser, which is a very handy tool for creating ...
Kansa: Get-AutorunscDeep.ps1 -- Taking Autorunsc to 11

Kansa: Get-AutorunscDeep.ps1 — Taking Autorunsc to 11

I wanted to put up a quick post about a new Kansa collector I recently added -- Get-AutorunscDeep.ps1. Sysinternals' Autoruns is a great utility for finding auto-start extension points in Windows and ...

Kansa: Passing arguments to collector modules

In my previous post on Kansa's automated analysis, I mentioned there was another improvement I made to the framework that I would cover in a future post. I thought at that time, ...
Kansa: Automating Analysis

Kansa: Automating Analysis

Kansa, the PowerShell based incident response framework, was written from the start to automate acquisition of data from thousands of hosts, but a mountain of collected data is not worth bits without analysis, ...
Kansa: Get-LogUserAssist.ps1

Kansa: Get-LogUserAssist.ps1

| | Kansa, Registry, UserAssist
Tonight I pushed the latest collector to Kansa, Get-LogUserAssist.ps1. This is probably the most complicated collector I've written for Kansa. It has several moving parts and there were some obstacles to overcome.As with ...

Kansa: Powershell profiles potentially hazardous

On the very day I published my previous post, Kansa: Collecting WMI Event Consumer backdoors, Mark Russinovich announced the release of a new version of Autoruns that collects WMI related ASEPs. I ...
Kansa: Collecting WMI Event Consumer backdoors

Kansa: Collecting WMI Event Consumer backdoors

In my previous post, Kansa: Service related collectors and analysis, I discussed the Windows Service related collectors and analysis capabilities in Kansa and noted that some of the collected data is not ...
Kansa: Service related collectors and analysis

Kansa: Service related collectors and analysis

In my previous post on Kansa's Autoruns collectors and analysis scripts, I mentioned that the Get-Aurounsc.ps1 collector relies on Sysinternals' Autorunsc.exe to collect data on all of the Autostart Extension Points (ASEPs) that ...
Kansa: Autoruns data and analysis

Kansa: Autoruns data and analysis

| | aseps, autoruns, DFIR, Kansa
I want your input.With the "Trailer Park" release of Kansa marking a milestone for the core framework, I'm turning my focus to analysis scripts for data collected by the current set of modules. As of ...