Splunk Threat Research Team's Blog Posts

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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Threat Update DoubleZero Destructor

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a closer look at a new malicious payload named DoubleZero Destructor (CERT-UA #4243).

Security

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Detecting HermeticWiper

Detecting HermeticWiper destructive software and ransomware decoy with Splunk.

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Deep Dive on Persistence, Privilege Escalation Technique and Detection in Linux Platform

Deep dive with the Splunk Threat Research Team on Linux Privilege Escalation and Linux Persistence Techniques.

Security

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Linux Persistence and Privilege Escalation: Threat Research January 2022 Release

In this January 2022 release, The Splunk Threat Research (STRT) team focused on the recently released Sysmon for Linux technology addition to Splunk.

Security

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Threat Advisory: STRT-TA02 - Destructive Software

The focus of this threat advisory is on a recently reported destructive payload by Microsoft MSTIC under the name of WhisperGate. We break down the different components and functions of how this payload works and provide a series of detections to mitigate and defend against this threat.

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Detecting Malware Script Loaders using Remcos: Threat Research Release December 2021

Start detection against behaviors and TTPs from a Remcos loader that utilizes DynamicWrapperX (dynwrapx.dll) to execute shellcode and inject Remcos RAT into the target process.