Eric Conrad
Author, SANS Faculty Fellow, and CTO of Backshore Communications
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Thursday, April 04, 2024
Building Containment Fields: How to Secure Containers
Links for my AtlSecCon talk:
- My slides
- Docker: https://www.docker.com/
- Container Escape CVEs: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=container+escape
- CIS Docker Benchmark: https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/docker
- Docker Bench Security https://github.com/docker/docker-bench-security
Monday, April 01, 2024
Detecting Command and Control frameworks via Sysmon and Windows Event Logging
My talk: https://github.com/eric-conrad/c2-talk/
- Team Cymru - S2 Threat Research Team: Top C2 Frameworks
- My previous C2 detection talk: Leave Only Footprints: When Prevention Fails
- EVTX files from Leave Only Footprints: When Prevention Fails
- Sysmon: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon
- Impacket: https://github.com/fortra/impacket
- wmiexec,py: https://github.com/fortra/impacket/blob/master/examples/wmiexec.py
- Imphash: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/tracking-malware-import-hashing
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Leave Only Footprints: When Prevention Fails
Here are links and EVTX files from my SANS Blue Team Summit keynote Leave Only Footprints: When Prevention Fails.
- Here are my slides
- Here are the EVTX files
- Sysmon
- The Rise of C2 Frameworks
- Most Popular C2 Frameworks – May 2023
- Busting the Ghost in the Logs - Randy Pargman & Jean-Francois Maes
- Tracking Malware with Import Hashing
- Impacket
- Hydra
- Metasploit
- Sliver
- Enabling logging of failed logons on Windows
Here are a few Powershell commands to parse the logs (also check out DeepBlueCLI):
- Any command referencing ADMIN$:
- Get-WinEvent @{Path="metasploit-sysmon.evtx";id=1} | Where {$_.Message -like "*ADMIN$*"} | fl
- Any command referencing both cmd.exe and wmiprvse.exe:
- Get-WinEvent @{Path="metasploit-sysmon.evtx";id=1} | Where {$_.Message -like "*cmd.exe*" –and $_.Message -like "*wmiprvse*"} | fl
- Create Remote Thread (Hashdump and process migration):
- Get-WinEvent @{Path="metasploit-sysmon.evtx";id=8} | fl
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Blind Data Exfiltration Using DNS and Burp Collaborator
Here's a copy of my slides for my SANS webcast Blind Data Exfiltration Using DNS and Burp Collaborator:
Blind Data Exfiltration Using DNS and Burp Collaborator
Here are the links:
- Link to the webcast (this will link to the webcast archive afterward)
- DNS-Exfiltrate Github site
- DNS Query Length... Because Size Does Matter
Thursday, April 07, 2022
Information Security for the Long Haul: Building a Career That Lasts
Here's a list of links from my AtlSecCon 2022 talk Information Security for the Long Haul: Building a Career That Lasts.
- Link to my talk
- Cliff Stoll makes Klein Bottles
- Cliff Stoll on Numberphile
- Stuck by Amy Reardon
- $300 in Google Compute Credits
- Free Google Compute Training
- Free AWS Training
- Free Azure Training
- East Coast Infosec Podcast We All Have Our Masters Degree!" with Eric Conrad
- Toastmasters
- Sears-Halifax Toastmasters Club
- Schooner Toastmasters Halifax
- Creatively Speaking Toastmasters Halifax
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