I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “How Safe Are Your Docker Images?“: Today, I don’t know any organization that is not using Docker today. For only test and development only or to full production systems, containers are deployed everywhere! In the same way, most popular tools today have a
Sometimes, a security incident starts with an email. A suspicious email can be provided to a security analyst for further investigation. Most of the time, the mail is provided in EML or “Electronic Mail Format“. EML files store the complete message in a single file: SMTP headers, mail body and all
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Investigating Microsoft BITS Activity“: Microsoft BITS (“Background Intelligent Transfer Serviceâ€) is a tool present[1] in all modern Microsoft Windows operating systems. As the name says, you can see it as a “curl” or “wget” tool for Windows. It helps to transfer files between
Excel sheets are very common files in corporate environments. It’s definitively not a security tool but it’s not rare to find useful information stored in such files. When these data must be processed for threat hunting or to collect IOC’s, it is mandatory to automate, as much as possible, the processing
Here is a Python script that I developed for my personal use: mime2vt.py. I decided to release it because I think it could be helpful for many of you. In 2012, I started a project called CuckooMX. The goal was to automatically scan attachments in emails with Cuckoo to find
Open proxies… Everybody likes them! Please don’t immediately think about malicious activities… Of course, open (and chained) proxies can be useful to make you anonymous on the Internet but they can also by very interesting for “good” purposes. As a pentester, they can help you to distribute your reconnaissance phase
