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Learning Network Forensics
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Learning Network Forensics

by Samir Datt
February 2016
Beginner
274 pages
6h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Indicators of Compromise

Indicators of Compromise (IOC) as they are commonly known are the symptoms that confirm the presence of the malware malady. Essentially, from a network forensics' perspective, these are artifacts (or a remnant from an intrusion) that, when discovered on a system or network, indicate a compromise with a high degree of confidence. There are malware-specific IOC and specialized tools such as YARA (http://plusvic.github.io/yara/) that help in identifying the existence of malware based on searches for these IOC.

Typically, IOC include known rogue IP addresses, virus signatures, MD5 hashes of malware, known bad URLs or domain names, and so on.

To promote standardization, a number of open frameworks are available. However, ...

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