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A – 50.18.236.24B – 54.193.161.48C – 54.176.28.229D – 204.236.150.46E – 54.193.159.25F – 54.193.159.25G – 54.177.237.203H – 54.177.83.238I – 204.236.157.138

J – 54.193.146.10K – 204.236.150.46L – 54.215.37.103M – 184.169.219.249N – 54.193.159.25O – 204.236.157.138P – 54.176.114.110Q – 204.236.157.138R – 54.215.47.68

S – 50.18.11.13T – 54.193.200.81U – 54.193.200.241V – 54.193.200.241W – 54.193.201.42X – 54.193.200.241Y – 54.193.159.25Z – 54.193.200.241? – 54.151.47.45

https://<yourIP>/ Username: splunklive Password: security

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Splunk Enterprise for Information Security

Hands-On

Presenters: David Veuve & Lily Lee

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Agenda

Intro

Web Attacks

Lateral Movement

DNS Exfiltration

Wrap-up / Q&A

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Intro

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A – 50.18.236.24B – 54.193.161.48C – 54.176.28.229D – 204.236.150.46E – 54.193.159.25F – 54.193.159.25G – 54.177.237.203H – 54.177.83.238I – 204.236.157.138

J – 54.193.146.10K – 204.236.150.46L – 54.215.37.103M – 184.169.219.249N – 54.193.159.25O – 204.236.157.138P – 54.176.114.110Q – 204.236.157.138R – 54.215.47.68

S – 50.18.11.13T – 54.193.200.81U – 54.193.200.241V – 54.193.200.241W – 54.193.201.42X – 54.193.200.241Y – 54.193.159.25Z – 54.193.200.241? – 54.151.47.45

https://<yourIP>/ Username: splunklive Password: security

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Web Attacks

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OWASP 2013 Top 10

[10] Unvalidated redirects and forwards

[9] Using components with known vulnerabilities

[8] Cross-site request forgery

[7] Missing function level access control

[6] Sensitive data exposure

[5] Security misconfiguration

[4] Insecure direct object reference

[3] Cross-site scripting (XSS)

[2] Broken authentication and session management

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[1] Injection

SQL injection

Code injection

OS commanding

LDAP injection

XML injection

XPath injection

SSI injection

IMAP/SMTP injection

Buffer overflow

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Our focus

SQL injection

Code injection

OS commanding

LDAP injection

XML injection

XPath injection

SSI injection

IMAP/SMTP injection

Buffer overflow

SQL injection is a massive headache for all companies who have a database and a

web interface.

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The anatomy of a SQL injection attack

SELECT * FROM users WHERE email='xxx@xxx.com'

OR 1 = 1 -- ' AND password='xxx';

xxx@xxx.xxx' OR 1 = 1 -- '

xxx

admin@admin.sys

1234

An attacker might supply:

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Simple SQL Injection

index=web_vuln password select

(Starting with a simple, full-text search)

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Simple SQL Injection

index=web_vuln password select (administrator OR root OR system OR sa)

| iplocation clientip

| search Country=Ukraine

(Furthermore, search for a privileged user and isolate the traffic from a specific country)

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https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1528/

Search for possible SQL injection in your events: looks for patterns in URI query field to see if

anyone has injected them with SQL statements

use standard deviations that are 2.5 times greater than the average length of your URI query field

Macros used• sqlinjection_pattern(sourcetype, uri query field)• sqlinjection_stats(sourcetype, uri query field)

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Advanced SQL Injection

index=web_vuln …

TIP: To decode URIs you can use: | eval u = urldecode(field)

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Advanced SQL Injection

index=web_vuln

| rex field=uri `sqlinjection_rex`

| search injection=*

| stats count by clientip status

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Summary: Web attacks/SQL injection

SQL injection provide attackers with easy access to data

Detecting advanced SQL injection is hard – use an app!

Augment your WAF with enterprise-wide Splunk searches

Other scenarios? Come see us at the Security Answers Booth

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Lateral Movement

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Poking around

An attacker hacks a non-privileged user system.

So what?

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Lateral Movement

Lateral Movement is the expansion of systems controlled, and data accessed.

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Most famous Lateral Movement attack?(excluding password re-use)

Pass the Hash!

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Detecting Legacy PtH

Look for Windows Events:

Event ID: 4624 or 4625

Logon type: 3

Auth package: NTLM

User account is not a domain logon, or Anonymous Logon

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LM Detection: Pass the Hash

source=WinEventLog:SecurityEventCode=4624 Authentication_Package=NTLM Type=Information

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Then it got harder

• Pass the Hash tools have improved

• Tracking of jitter, other metrics

• So let’s detect lateral movement differently

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Network traffic provides source of truth

I usually talk to 10 hosts

Then one day I talk to 10,000 hosts

ALARM!

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LM Detection: Network Destinations

sourcetype="pan:traffic"

| stats count dc(dest) sparkline(dc(dest)) by src_ip

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Consistently large

Inconsistent!

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LM Detection: Network Destinations

sourcetype="pan:traffic" | bucket _time span=1d | stats count dc(dest) as NumDests by src_ip _time | stats avg(NumDests) as avg stdev(NumDests) as stdev latest(NumDests) as latest by src_ip| where latest > 2 * stdev + avg

Find daily average, standard deviation, and most recent

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LM Detection: Network Destinations – Bonus

… | stats avg( eval( if(_time < relative_time(now(), “-1d@d”), NumDests, null))) as avg ….

If you are fancy, use stats, eval and the relative_timefunctions to ignore our recent spike.

With a valid avg and stdev, yesterday’s value becomes 28 standard deviations away from normal!

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iz so hard… u haz magic?

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Summary: Lateral Movement

Attacker success defines scope of a breach

High difficulty, high importance

Worth doing in Splunk

Easy with UBA

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DNS Exfiltration

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domain=corp;user=dave;password=12345

encrypt

DNS Query:ZG9tYWluPWNvcnA7dXNlcj1kYXZlO3Bhc3N3b3JkPTEyMzQ1DQoNCg==.attack.com

ZG9tYWluPWNvcnA7dXNlcj1kYXZlO3Bhc3N3b3JkPTEyMzQ1DQoNCg==

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DNS exfil tends to be overlooked within an ocean of DNS data.

Let’s fix that!

DNS exfiltration

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FrameworkPOS: a card-stealing program that exfiltrates data from the target’s network by transmitting it as domain name system (DNS) traffic

But the big difference is the way how stolen data is exfiltrated: the malware used DNS requests! https://blog.gdatasoftware.com/2014/10/23942-new-frameworkpos-

variant-exfiltrates-data-via-dns-requests

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… few organizations actually keep detailed logs or records of the DNS traffic traversing their networks — making it an ideal way to siphon data from a hacked network.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/05/deconstructing-the-2014-sally-beauty-breach/#more-30872

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DNS exfiltration

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https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2734/

DNS exfil detection – tricks of the trade parse URLs & complicated TLDs (Top Level Domain) calculate Shannon Entropy

List of provided lookups• ut_parse_simple(url)• ut_parse(url, list) or ut_parse_extended(url, list) • ut_shannon(word)• ut_countset(word, set)• ut_suites(word, sets)• ut_meaning(word)• ut_bayesian(word)• ut_levenshtein(word1, word2)

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Examples

• The domain aaaaa.com has a Shannon Entropy score of 1.8 (very low)

• The domain google.com has a Shannon Entropy score of 2.6 (rather low)

• A00wlkj—(-a.aslkn-C.a.2.sk.esasdfasf1111)-890209uC.4.com has a Shannon

Entropy score of 3 (rather high)

Layman’s definition: a score reflecting the randomness or measure of uncertainty of a string

Shannon Entropy

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Detecting Data Exfiltration

index=bro sourcetype=bro_dns| `ut_parse(query)` | `ut_shannon(ut_subdomain)` | eval sublen = length(ut_subdomain)| table ut_domain ut_subdomainut_shannon sublen

TIPS

Leverage our Bro DNS data

Calculate Shannon Entropy scores

Calculate subdomain length

Display Details

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Detecting Data Exfiltration

… | stats count avg(ut_shannon) as avg_shaavg(sublen) as avg_sublenstdev(sublen) as stdev_sublenby ut_domain| search avg_sha>3 avg_sublen>20 stdev_sublen<2

TIPS

Leverage our Bro DNS data

Calculate Shannon Entropy scores

Calculate subdomain length

Display count, scores, lengths,

deviations

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Detecting Data Exfiltration

RESULTS

• Exfiltrating data requires many DNS requests – look for high counts

• DNS exfiltration to mooo.com and chickenkiller.com

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Summary: DNS exfiltration

Exfiltration by DNS and ICMP is a very common technique

Many organizations do not analyze DNS activity – do not be like them!

No DNS logs? No Splunk Stream? Look at FW byte counts

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Wrap-up / Q&A

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Summary

Multiple phases to modern attacks

Deploy detection across all phases

Also consider adaptive response!

Stay abreast of modern advancements

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