One of the main goals of Sigma as a project and Sigma rules specifically has always been to reduce the gap that existed in the detection rules space. As maintainers of the Sigma rule repository we're always striving for reducing that gap and making robust and...
We are proud to announce the integration of our private Sigma rule set in Valhalla. This rule set is used in our scanner THOR and endpoint agent Aurora. The rule set currently contains more than 250 quality-tested and generic rules written by Nextron's detection...
We've updated our Antivirus Event Analysis Cheat Sheet to version 1.10.0. It includes updates in several sections add special identifiers for Sliver and Brute Ratel C4 framework implants many new tags for Virustotal assessments You can download the new version here....
We've updated our Antivirus Event Analysis Cheat Sheet to version 1.9.0. It includes updates in almost all sections add special indicators for all kinds of Microsoft Exchange exploitation activity (ProxyLogon, ProxyShell etc.) moves Ransomware indicators to highly...
Our compromise assessment scanner THOR is able to apply Sigma rules during the local Eventlog analysis. This can help any customer that has no central SIEM system or performs a live forensic analysis on a system group that does not report to central monitoring. By...
We've just released an updated version of our Antivirus Event Analysis cheat sheet. You can download version 1.7 here.The major changes are:Updated AV signature listsSplit AV signature cells into two columns to save spaceFixed and added some directory namesExtended...
Sigma is a rule format for threat detection in log files. It is for log data what "Snort rules" are for network traffic or "YARA signatures" are for file data. It is easy to write and read. Writing a Sigma rule is a matter of minutes. On the right you can see a simple...
Today we release a new version of our "Antivirus Event Analysis" Cheat Sheet that helps you with the analysis of Antivirus events by providing a clear decision matrix. We've updated many of the sections, added new VirusTotal online analysis checks and brought it in a...
Sigma is an open standard for rules that allow you to describe searches on log data in generic form. These rules can be converted and applied to many log management or SIEM systems and can even be used with grep on the command line. In this article I'd like to give...
Some of you may already have heard of Sigma, a generic approach for signatures used in SIEM systems. Its main purpose is to provide a structured form in which researchers or analysts can describe their once developed detection methods and make them shareable with...
During the last four years, I was engaged on incident response teams for several large advanced persistent threat (APT) cases involving different German corporations. In this time, we have developed methods and tools to detect compromised systems, while also planning...
Today most security teams have access to a lot of different information sources. On the one hand they collect log data from different sources and try to correlate them in a useful way in so-called SIEM systems. On the other hand they receive threat information from...