Blogs
Elastic Security Labs empowers security teams across the globe with novel security intelligence research and free to use tools.

PARALLAX Payload Extractor
Python script to extract the payload from PARALLAX samples.

BPFDoor Scanner
Python script to identify hosts infected with the BPFDoor malware.

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.

EMOTET Configuration Extractor
Python script to extract the configuration from EMOTET samples.

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

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

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.

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.
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.

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.
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”.