Detecting misconfigured Azure Storage accounts including publicly accessible blob containers, missing encryption settings, overly permissive SAS tokens, disabled logging, and network access violations using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Microsoft Defender for Storage.

Detect Mimikatz execution through command-line patterns, LSASS access signatures, binary indicators, and in-memory detection of known modules.

Detect malicious scheduled task creation and modification using Sysmon Event IDs 1 (Process Create for schtasks.exe), 11 (File Create for task XML), and Windows Security Event 4698/4702. The analyst correlates task creation with suspicious parent processes, public directory paths, and encoded command arguments to identify persistence and lateral movement via scheduled tasks. Activates for requests involving scheduled task detection, Sysmon persistence hunting, or T1053.005 Scheduled Task/Job analysis.

Detect Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBins/LOLBAS) abuse including certutil, regsvr32, mshta, and rundll32 via process telemetry, Sigma rules, and parent-child process analysis

Detect abuse of legitimate Windows binaries (LOLBins) used for living off the land attacks. Monitors process creation, command-line arguments, and parent-child relationships to identify suspicious LOLBin execution patterns.

Detect lateral movement in network traffic using Zeek (formerly Bro) log analysis. Parses conn.log, smb_mapping.log, smb_files.log, dce_rpc.log, kerberos.log, and ntlm.log to identify SMB file transfers, NTLM account spray activity, remote service execution, and anomalous internal connections.

Detect adversary lateral movement across networks using Splunk SPL queries against Windows authentication logs, SMB traffic, and remote service abuse.

Identifies lateral movement techniques in enterprise networks by analyzing authentication logs, network flows, SMB traffic, and RDP sessions using Zeek, Velociraptor, and SIEM correlation rules to detect attackers moving between systems.

Detect Kerberoasting attacks by monitoring for anomalous Kerberos TGS requests targeting service accounts with SPNs for offline password cracking.

Implement User and Entity Behavior Analytics using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch to build behavioral baselines, calculate anomaly scores, perform peer group analysis, and detect insider threat indicators such as data exfiltration, privilege abuse, and unauthorized access patterns.

Detect insider threat behavioral indicators including unusual data access, off-hours activity, mass file downloads, privilege abuse, and resignation-correlated data theft.

Detects insider data exfiltration by analyzing DLP policy violations, file access patterns, upload volume anomalies, and off-hours activity in endpoint and cloud logs. Uses pandas for behavioral analytics and statistical baselines. Use when investigating insider threats or building user behavior analytics for data loss prevention.

Detect Kerberos Golden Ticket forgery by analyzing Windows Event ID 4769 for RC4 encryption downgrades (0x17), abnormal ticket lifetimes, and krbtgt account anomalies in Splunk and Elastic SIEM

Detect Golden Ticket attacks in Active Directory by analyzing Kerberos TGT anomalies including mismatched encryption types, impossible ticket lifetimes, non-existent accounts, and forged PAC signatures in domain controller event logs.

Detects and analyzes fileless malware that operates entirely in memory using PowerShell, WMI, .NET reflection, registry-resident payloads, and living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) without writing traditional executable files to disk. Activates for requests involving fileless threat detection, in-memory malware investigation, LOLBin abuse analysis, or WMI persistence examination.

Detects fileless malware and in-memory attacks that execute entirely in RAM without writing persistent files to disk, evading traditional antivirus. Use when building detections for PowerShell-based attacks, reflective DLL injection, WMI persistence, and registry-resident malware. Activates for requests involving fileless malware detection, in-memory attacks, PowerShell exploitation, or living-off-the-land techniques.

Detect DNS-based data exfiltration by analyzing Zeek dns.log for high-entropy subdomains and anomalous query patterns

Detects defense evasion techniques used by adversaries in endpoint logs including log tampering, timestomping, process injection, and security tool disabling. Use when investigating suspicious endpoint behavior, building detection rules for evasion tactics, or conducting threat hunting for stealthy adversary activity. Activates for requests involving evasion detection, defense evasion analysis, log tampering detection, or MITRE ATT&CK TA0005.

Detect malicious email forwarding rules created by adversaries to maintain persistent access to email communications for intelligence collection and BEC attacks.

Detect compromised O365 and Google Workspace email accounts by analyzing inbox rule creation, suspicious sign-in locations, mail forwarding rules, and unusual API access patterns via Microsoft Graph and audit logs.

Detect DLL side-loading attacks where adversaries place malicious DLLs alongside legitimate applications to hijack execution flow for defense evasion.

Detects AI-generated deepfake audio used in voice phishing (vishing) attacks by extracting spectral features (MFCC, spectral centroid, spectral contrast, zero-crossing rate) and classifying samples with machine learning models. Supports batch analysis of audio files, generates confidence scores, and produces forensic reports. Activates for requests involving deepfake voice detection, vishing investigation, AI-generated speech analysis, voice cloning detection, or audio authenticity verification.

Detect DCSync attacks where adversaries abuse Active Directory replication privileges to extract password hashes by monitoring for non-domain-controller accounts requesting directory replication via DsGetNCChanges.

This skill teaches security teams how to detect and respond to unauthorized cryptocurrency mining operations in cloud environments. It covers identifying cryptomining indicators through compute usage anomalies, network traffic patterns to mining pools, GuardDuty CryptoCurrency findings, and runtime process monitoring on EC2, ECS, EKS, and Azure Automation workloads.