cyber analysts: who they are, what they do, where they are - marco ramilli - codemotion milan 2016

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November 26 2016 CodeMotion Milan

Marco Ramilli


Cyber Analysts: who they are, what they do,where they are !


Agenda:

- Cyber Analysts: who they are!

- Cyber Analysts: what they do!

- Cyber Analysts: where they are!


Today’s Host● PhD in Bologna Joint UCDavis

○ Cyber Security, Penetration Testing US Voting Machines○ Books and Publications

● NIST○ OEVT○ Penetration Testing methodologies to help US Democracy

● Palantir○ Product Company○ Intelligence Company

● Yoroi○ One of the most extraordinary cyber security company founded

in Europe (Hakin9)


Who they are!Nowadays is not a trivial topic:

● Deep Learning Machines● Cognitive Computing● Machine Learning Algorithms ● Neural Networks

Undermine the Human side of Cyber Security Analysis.

But could that technology really take off the human side of this job ?


Who they are!Dark Avenger Mutation Algorithm (1993)

It could produce some decryptor cases that appeared only in about 5% or less of all cases. However, the engine had a couple of minor limitations that were enough to detect the virus reliably using an instruction size disassembler and a state machine. In fact, there is only one constant byte in an MtE decryptor, the 0x75 (JNZ), which is followed by a negative offset—and even that is placed at a variable location (at the end of the decryptor, whose length is not constant).


Who they are!

Super Simple Malware Evasion Technique. Credits: https://www.exploit-db.com/34591


Who they are!Red Pill Approach credits: A fistful of red-pills: How to automatically generate procedures to detect CPU emulators


Who they are!


What they do!

● Day 1, Morning. A phone call (from IT department) saying a server is performing weird network requests.

● Day 1, Afternoon. A VMWare image is sent to Cyber Analyst email box

he’ gotta run !


What they do!

Apport -> Intercepts crashes right when they happen the first time, gathers system information and send back to developers stack traces and useful infos to fixt the crash

package-data-downloader -> used by software installers such as dpkg and apt.


What they do!

SubProcess … Why ?/usr/bin/lls … What ?


What they do!


What they do!

Connect to 198.216.87.22 ?


What they do!Ok, let’s intercept what it sends to 198 !

On the client side in the meanwhile ...

Oh boy… really ?


What they do!


What they do!Ok, we’ve got password exfiltration every crash dump and every software update and machine control since ssh is available.

But how they trigger persistence on a server ?

Maybe attackers trigger crashes from outside ?


What they do!

Et Voilà ! CVE-2014-3583

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-3583/

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-3583/


What they do!Ok, we know pretty much a lot of things about the intrusion even how they get persistence...

But why the user reported a “strange behavior” ?

Maybe attackers needed such a server as pivot server ?

Oh..Oh !!


What they do!Here we go !A nice SEH BOverflow on Windows

We need to asks for another server Image ….. :D

Ok not today...


What they do!

It was a quite original way to penetrate a system… is it a new fancy opportunistic way ?


What they do!


What they do!

How “lls” landed here ?


What they do!

Only 5 iterations ? - Let’s check it out !


What they do!A simple reminds on Linux passwords:● schema: $id$salt$hashed

○ $1$ -> MD5○ $2a$ -> Blowfish○ $2y$ -> Blowfish (8-bit chars)○ $5$ -> SHA-256○ $6$ -> SHA-512

● !: account is password locked● *: account is locked● !!: no password set (RedHat)


What they do!


Where they are!● Unfortunately there is not a full learning path to become Cyber

Security Analyst so far.● There are a lot of classes on:

○ Reverse Engineer○ Firmware Analyses○ Forensic Analyses○ Penetration Testing○ Vulnerability Assessments○ Secure Policy Assessment○ . . . . .

● But a Cyber Security Analyst should be able to perform each of these actions + human interactions + strategic thinking + organization chart knowledge + problem solving


Where they are ?


We are Hiring !

www.yoroi.company

cyber analysts: who they are, what they do, where they are - marco ramilli - codemotion milan 2016

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