Threat Hunting Difficulty: medium Log Format: syslog

Follow the Pivot

One external IP logged into web-01. Seventeen minutes later, three servers were compromised and a database dump was on its way to Russia. Trace every hop.

Lateral MovementSSHCredential Harvesting

Investigation Scenario

One external IP logged into web-01. Seventeen minutes later, three servers were compromised and a database dump was on its way to Russia. Trace every hop.

Investigation Objectives

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