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PARALLAX Payload Extractor
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PARALLAX Payload Extractor

Python script to extract the payload from PARALLAX samples.

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BPFDoor Scanner
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BPFDoor Scanner

Python script to identify hosts infected with the BPFDoor malware.

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Cobalt Strike Beacon Extractor
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Cobalt Strike Beacon Extractor

Python script that collects Cobalt Strike memory data generated by security events from an Elasticsearch cluster, extracts the configuration from the CS beacon, and writes the data back to Elasticsearch.

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EMOTET Configuration Extractor
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EMOTET Configuration Extractor

Python script to extract the configuration from EMOTET samples.

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BLISTER Configuration Extractor
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BLISTER Configuration Extractor

Python script to extract the configuration and payload from BLISTER samples.

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EMOTET Dynamic Configuration Extraction
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EMOTET Dynamic Configuration Extraction

Elastic Security Labs discusses the EMOTET trojan and is releasing a tool to dynamically extract configuration files using code emulators.

Remco Sprooten
Security operations: Cloud monitoring and detection with Elastic Security
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Security operations: Cloud monitoring and detection with Elastic Security

As companies migrate to cloud, so too do opportunist adversaries. That's why our Elastic Security team members have created free detection rules for protecting users' cloud platforms like AWS and Okta. Learn more in this blog post.

Brent Murphy
Analysis of Log4Shell vulnerability & CVE-2021-45046
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Analysis of Log4Shell vulnerability & CVE-2021-45046

In this post, we cover next steps the Elastic Security team is taking for users to continue to protect themselves against CVE-2021-44228, or Log4Shell.

Jake King
Forecast and Recommendations: 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report
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Forecast and Recommendations: 2022 Elastic Global Threat Report

With the release of our first Global Threat Report at Elastic, customers, partners, and the security community at large are able to identify many of the focus areas our team has had over the past 12 months.

Santosh Krishnan
Detection rules for SIGRed vulnerability
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Detection rules for SIGRed vulnerability

The SIGRed vulnerability impacts all systems leveraging the Windows DNS server service (Windows 2003+). To defend your environment, we recommend implementing the detection logic included in this blog post using technology like Elastic Security.

Seth Goodwin
Detecting Exploitation of CVE-2021-44228 (Log4j2) with Elastic Security
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Detecting Exploitation of CVE-2021-44228 (Log4j2) with Elastic Security

This blog post provides a summary of CVE-2021-44228 and provides Elastic Security users with detections to find active exploitation of the vulnerability in their environment. Further updates will be provided to this post as we learn more.

Jake King
Elastic's response to the Spring4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965)
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Elastic's response to the Spring4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965)

Provide executive-level details about CVE-2022-22965, a recently-disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability also known as “Spring4Shell”.

Devon Kerr