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Splunk Threat Research Team
Splunk Threat Research Team

 

The Splunk Threat Research Team is an active part of a customer’s overall defense strategy by enhancing Splunk security offerings with verified research and security content such as use cases, detection searches, and playbooks. We help security teams around the globe strengthen operations by providing tactical guidance and insights to detect, investigate and respond against the latest threats. The Splunk Threat Research Team focuses on understanding how threats, actors, and vulnerabilities work, and the team replicates attacks which are stored as datasets in the Attack Data repository

Our goal is to provide security teams with research they can leverage in their day to day operations and to become the industry standard for SIEM detections. We are a team of industry-recognized experts who are encouraged to improve the security industry by sharing our work with the community via conference talks, open-sourcing projects, and writing white papers or blogs. You will also find us presenting our research at conferences such as Defcon, Blackhat, RSA, and many more.


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Security 3 Min Read

From Water to Wine: An Analysis of WINELOADER

In this blog post we'll look closely at the WINELOADER backdoor and how Splunk can be used to detect and respond to this threat.
Security 4 Min Read

Splunk Security Content for Threat Detection & Response: Q4 Roundup

Learn about the latest security content from Splunk.
Security 16 Min Read

Previous Security Content Roundups from the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT)

Recap: Learn about the last four quarters of security content from the Splunk Threat Research Team.
Security 9 Min Read

Security Insights: JetBrains TeamCity CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199

The Splunk Threat Research Team examines exploit operations, analytics, hunting queries, and tips on capturing TeamCity logs.
Security 9 Min Read

Another Year of RATs and Trojan Stealer: Detection Commonalities and Summary

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares analysis, analytic stories and security detections for seven well-known RAT and Trojan Stealer malware families.
Security 10 Min Read

Enter The Gates: An Analysis of the DarkGate AutoIt Loader

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) provides a deep dive analysis of the DarkGate malware and its use of AutoIt.
Security 8 Min Read

Unmasking the Enigma: A Historical Dive into the World of PlugX Malware

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) unravels the mystery of a PlugX variant, peeling back the layers of its payload, tactics, and impact on the digital realm.
Security 10 Min Read

More Than Just a RAT: Unveiling NjRAT's MBR Wiping Capabilities

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) provides a deep-dive analysis of NjRAT (or Bladabindi), a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) discovered in 2012 that's still active today.
Security 5 Min Read

Detect WS_FTP Server Exploitation with Splunk Attack Range

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares how they used Splunk Attack Range to develop detection content related to CVE-2023-40044.
Security 8 Min Read

Defending the Gates: Understanding and Detecting Ave Maria (Warzone) RAT

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a deep-dive analysis of Ave Maria RAT, also known as 'Warzone RAT.'
Security 8 Min Read

Amadey Threat Analysis and Detections

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a deep-dive analysis of the Amadey Trojan Stealer, an active and prominent malware that first emerged on the cybersecurity landscape in 2018 and has maintained a persistent botnet infrastructure ever since.
Security 9 Min Read

Don’t Get a PaperCut: Analyzing CVE-2023-27350

The Splunk Threat Research team shares insights on the CVE-2023-27350 vulnerability, proof of concept scripts, setting up Splunk logging, and detecting adversaries for secure printing.
Security 11 Min Read

Do Not Cross The 'RedLine' Stealer: Detections and Analysis

The Splunk Threat Research Team provides a deep dive analysis of the RedLine Stealer threat and shares valuable insights to help enable blue teamers to defend against and detect this malware variant.
Security 5 Min Read

Security Content from the Splunk Threat Research Team

The blog explains how STRT develops Splunk Security Content, aiding detection engineering and threat research teams to efficiently detect and respond to potential threats, using ESCU App amidst growing security incidents and system complexity.
Security 7 Min Read

Threat Update: AwfulShred Script Wiper

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares their findings on the Linux-targeted destructive payload AwfulShred.
Security 15 Min Read

These Are The Drivers You Are Looking For: Detect and Prevent Malicious Drivers

The Splunk Threat Research Team explores how to detect and prevent malicious drivers and discusses Splunk Security Content available to defend against these types of attacks.
Security 9 Min Read

Splunk Insights: Investigating the 3CXDesktopApp Supply Chain Compromise

In this Splunk blog post, we aim to equip defenders with the necessary tools and strategies to actively hunt down and counteract this campaign. Additionally, we will offer some resilient analytic ideas that can serve as a foundation for future threat detection and response efforts.
Security 9 Min Read

AsyncRAT Crusade: Detections and Defense

The Splunk Threat Research Team explores detections and defense against the Microsoft OneNote AsyncRAT malware campaign.