analysis – PwnDefend

Can AI replace intelligence analysts?

Ok, it’s late, and well I wanted to look into cyber attacks where social engineering is a key component combined with technical hacking skills.

There’s been a growing number of these style events, so I tasked GROK to create an assessment for me, let’s see how it did! Let’s both try and answer the questions:

Can GROK replace intelligence officers and can GROK help us defend better against social engineering + technical attacks? What do you think? (please take all of this with a pinch of salt… LLMs are known to make mistakes/hallucinate/lie in a very convincing manner)….

they look nice…. but looks can as we know, be deceiving! (is the entire blog just a social engineering experiment by me?)

Hacking

Mobile Device Malware Analysis

Mobile devices present interesting challenges when it comes to:

Incident Response
Malware Analysis
Digital Forensics

Education

Learn to SOC: Cryptominer Analysis

I’m totally in the middle of doing some work but this alert just came in so I have quickly dumped the data:

This came in via a Confluence exploit (not sure which CVE yet). I’ve not got time to analyse but thought I’d share this as an educational excercise for people! It’s a good excercise to see the apache tomcat logs and then decode, obtain samples and analyse the activity/imapct (as well as yoink IOCs etc.)