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.

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

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.

Elastic Security observed a ransomware and extortion campaign leveraging a combination of offensive security tools, LOLBAS, and exploits to deliver the CUBA ransomware malware.

Elastic Security discovered PHOREAL malware, which is targeting Southeast Asia financial organizations, particularly those in the Vietnamese financial sector.

We explore using Elastic to extract Cobalt Strike beacon payloads from memory and use open source tools to analyze and group threat activity clusters.

Part 1 - Processes and technology needed to extract Cobalt Strike implant beacons

Part 2 - Extracting configurations from Cobalt Strike implant beacons.

Campaign research and analysis of an observed FORMBOOK intrusion attempt.