Splunk Threat Research Team's Blog Posts

The Splunk Threat Research Team is an active part of a customer’s overall defense strategy by enhancing Splunk security offerings with verified research and security content such as use cases, detection searches, and playbooks. We help security teams around the globe strengthen operations by providing tactical guidance and insights to detect, investigate and respond against the latest threats. The Splunk Threat Research Team focuses on understanding how threats, actors, and vulnerabilities work, and the team replicates attacks which are stored as datasets in the Attack Data repository.

Our goal is to provide security teams with research they can leverage in their day to day operations and to become the industry standard for SIEM detections. We are a team of industry-recognized experts who are encouraged to improve the security industry by sharing our work with the community via conference talks, open-sourcing projects, and writing white papers or blogs. You will also find us presenting our research at conferences such as Defcon, Blackhat, RSA, and many more.

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Security

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Detecting Cloud Account Takeover Attacks: Threat Research Release, October 2022

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a closer look at the telemetry available in Azure, AWS and GCP and the options teams have to ingest this data into Splunk.

Security

13 Minute Read

From Macros to No Macros: Continuous Malware Improvements by QakBot

This blog, the Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) showcases a year's evolution of QakBot. We also dive into a recent change in tradecraft meant to evade security controls. Last, we reverse engineered the QakBot loader to showcase some of its functions.

Security

12 Minute Read

Inside the Mind of a ‘Rat’ - Agent Tesla Detection and Analysis

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) describes the different tactics, techniques and procedures mapped to the ATT&CK framework leveraged by the Agent Tesla remote access trojan.

Security

9 Minute Read

Dark Crystal RAT Agent Deep Dive

The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) analyzed and developed Splunk analytics for this RAT to help defenders identify signs of compromise within their networks.

Security

11 Minute Read

Deliver a Strike by Reversing a Badger: Brute Ratel Detection and Analysis

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares how they utilized public research to capture Brute Ratel Badgers (agents) and create a Yara rule to help identify more on VirusTotal.

Security

7 Minute Read

Machine Learning in Security: NLP Based Risky SPL Detection with a Pre-trained Model

The Splunk Threat Research Team shares a closer look at a hunting analytic and two machine learning-based detections that help find users running highly suspicious risky SPL commands.