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Articles by Andrew Pease

Elastic Security Labs Technology Lead, Elastic

Andrew Pease is the Elastic Security Labs Technology Lead. His team focuses on analyzing strategic, operational, and tactical threats. He was also the CEO and CIO of Perched, a professional services provider focusing on security consulting and training. Perched joined forces with Elastic in August 2019.

Andrew specializes in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) economic espionage, intelligence, and counter-intelligence programs.

Andrew is the creator and maintainer of the Elastic Container Project.

Additionally, Andrew was a member of the Missouri Cyber Team (MOCYBER) within the Missouri National Guard. His team has developed techniques and methodologies for performing cyber hunting operations within Federal, State, and private industries. MOCYBER architected, engineered, and operationalized its own hunting platform known as ROCK (rocknsm.io) as well as its standalone operations technology stack, CAPES (capesstack.io). He retired from the Army National Guard after 20+ years as a Chief Warrant Officer Four, in 2021.

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The DPRK strikes using a new variant of RUSTBUCKET

Watch out! We’ve recently discovered a variant of RUSTBUCKET. Read this article to understand the new capabilities we’ve observed, as well as how to identify it in your own network.

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Initial research exposing JOKERSPY

Explore JOKERSPY, a recently discovered campaign that targets financial institutions with Python backdoors. This article covers reconnaissance, attack patterns, and methods of identifying JOKERSPY in your network.

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Elastic Security Labs is providing an update to the REF2924 research published in December of 2022. This update includes malware analysis of the implants, additional findings, and associations with other intrusions.

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SiestaGraph: New implant uncovered in ASEAN member foreign ministry

Elastic Security Labs is tracking likely multiple on-net threat actors leveraging Exchange exploits, web shells, and the newly discovered SiestaGraph implant to achieve and maintain access, escalate privilege, and exfiltrate targeted data.

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Doing time with the YIPPHB dropper

Elastic Security Labs outlines the steps collect and analyze the various stages of the REF4526 intrusion set. This intrusion set uses a creative approach of Unicode icons in Powershell scripts to install a loader, a dropper, and RAT implants.

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ICEDIDs network infrastructure is alive and well

Elastic Security Labs details the use of open source data collection and the Elastic Stack to analyze the ICEDID botnet C2 infrastructure.

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Exploring the REF2731 Intrusion Set

The Elastic Security Labs team has been tracking REF2731, an 5-stage intrusion set involving the PARALLAX loader and the NETWIRE RAT.

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LUNA Ransomware Attack Pattern Analysis

In this research publication, we'll explore the LUNA attack pattern — a cross-platform ransomware variant.

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The Elastic Container Project for Security Research

The Elastic Container Project provides a single shell script that will allow you to stand up and manage an entire Elastic Stack using Docker. This open source project enables rapid deployment for testing use cases.