Tag Archive: DefenderATP

Microsoft 365 Defender connector for Azure Sentinel in public preview

365 defender connector

A new connector for Microsoft 365 Defender is in public preview in Azure Sentinel. This connector makes it possible to ingest the hunting data into Sentinel

Currently, the Defender for Endpoint Data is available

To enable

  • Go to you Azure Sentinel Instance and select Connectors
  • Search for Microsoft 365 Defender
365 defender connector
  • Click Open Connector Page
  • Select which Events you want to ingest
threat hunting data
  • Click Apply Changes

Example queries

//Registry events
DeviceRegistryEvents
| where ActionType == "RegistryValueSet"
| where RegistryValueName == "DefaultPassword"
| where RegistryKey has @"SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon"
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, RegistryKey
| top 100 by Timestamp
//Process and Network events
union DeviceProcessEvents, DeviceNetworkEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(7d)
| where FileName in~ ("powershell.exe", "powershell_ise.exe")
| where ProcessCommandLine has_any("WebClient",
"DownloadFile",
"DownloadData",
"DownloadString",
"WebRequest",
"Shellcode",
"http",
"https")
| project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessFileName,
InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
FileName, ProcessCommandLine, RemoteIP, RemoteUrl, RemotePort, RemoteIPType
log view

If we look at the tables we can see the new created tables

table view

More information about the data in these tables is available in this post https://blog.sec-labs.com/2018/06/threat-hunting-with-windows-defender-atp/

For further reading:

24/7 protection during Covid-19 – Defender ATP Auto IR

One thing we usually discuss with customers is the workload. Everyone has too much to do and it can, sometimes be difficult to prioritize investigations.

Especially now, where you might be short on staff, and the Covid-19 virus can strike at the SOC organization or reduce the numbers of available people.

Of course, this does not only apply during the world crisis of Covid-19. Automation is also a help in the normal day to day work.

There are benefits of being able to automate responses and we have these discussions with many customers.

MDATP Automatic self-healing is built-in into Defender ATP and is mimicking these ideal steps a human would take to investigate and remediate organizational assets, impacted by a cyber threat.

This is done using 20 built-in investigation playbooks and 10 remediation actions

Increased Capacity

  • Respond at the speed of automation
  • Investigate and remediate all alerts automatically
  • Free up critical resources to work on strategic initiatives

Cost implications

  • It will drive down the cost per investigation and remediation
  • Takes away manual, repetitive tasks
  • Automated remediation eliminates downtime

Get full value of your protection suite and people, quick configuration and you are up and running

SecOps Investigation (Manual)

Sometimes it will take some time from the alert being triggered until someone has the time to start looking at it.  Manual work also requires more resources for review and approval for each action

From a SecOPs perspective, an initial response involves information gathering.

Collecting:

  1. Process list
  2. Services
  3. Drivers
  4. Network connections
  5. Files created
    1. Where did the file originate from?
    1. etc

Based on our results, we will decide the remediation steps (if we do not follow a playbook here, the catch will be different result depending on who makes the response).

Remediation:

The remediation will include connecting remotely or manually collect the device and then launch tools for the remediation process.

Automatic response with Auto IR

Fast time to respond which will avoid additional damage and compromise of additional devices, when attackers will start moving lateral in the environment.

It’s our 24/7 buddy who assists the SOC staff to remediate threats so the human staff can focus on other things

  1. MDATP is sending telemetry data to the cloud
  2. MDATP cloud continuously analyzes the data to detect threats
  3. Once a threat is identitfied an alert is being raised
  4. The alert kicks off a new automated investigation
  5. AIRS component asks Sense client to initiate SenseIR
  6. SenseIR is then orchestrated by AIRS on what action should be executed (Collection/Remediation)
  7. Based on the data collected from the machine (current and historical) AIRS decides what actions should be taken
  8. For every threat identified, AIRS will automatically analyze the best course of action and tailor a dedicated surgical remediation action to be executed using on device components (e.g. Windows Defender Antivirus)

Playbook is executed

“suspicious host” playbook is just an example of “catch all” playbook that is applied after detailed AutoIR investigation for evidences raised by alerts / incident  to ensure that nothing is missed.

Data Collection

  • Volatile data
    • All processes list – main image, loaded modules, handles, suspicious memory sections
    • All services list
    • All drivers list
    • All connections
  • None-Volatile data
    • Recently created files – x minutes febore / after alert
    • All persistence methods
    • Recently executed files
    • Download location

Incrimination

  • Microsoft Security Graph eco system – DaaS, AVaaS, TI, TA, Detection engine, ML infrastructure etc.
  • Custom TI indicators – for allow / block list

Remediation

  • How?
    • By leveraging OS components (e.g. Defender Antivirus) to perform the remediation (prebuilt into the system, low level actions (driver), tried and tested)
  • What?
    • File actions
    • Process actions
    • Service actions
    • Registry actions
    • Driver actions
    • Persistency methods (Reg, Link files, etc.) actions
    • Scheduled task actions
    • More…

Getting started

Advanced Features (edited list)
  • In machine groups select Add machine group

As you can see in the options, you can select different AutoIR levels

Summary

Go auto approval, save time and protect your business!

Happy Hunting

New Threat & Vulnerability Management capabilities in Defender ATP

Microsoft announces the following new capabilities that will go into public preview this month:

  • Vulnerability Assessment (VA) support for Windows Servers 2008 R2 and above
  • Integration with ServiceNow for improved IT/Security communication
  • Advanced hunting across vulnerabilities and security alerts
  • Role-based access controls (RBAC) for teams focusing on vulnerability management
  • Automated user-impact analysis

The ServiceNow integration is very easy. Just follow the guide in the settings tab

This feature provides one-click remediation request via Service Now to other IT teams.

TVM capabilities – Let’s use in hunting 🙂

TVM hunting

RBAC – more granular control

Defender ATP rbac

Happy Hunting!