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Building Your Own DFIR Sidekick: THREADS Edition
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Scott J. Roberts
November 14, 2014
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Building Your Own DFIR Sidekick: THREADS Edition
My latest (and final) Hubot for IR talk, given at the excellent NYUPoly CSAW THREADS 2014.
Scott J. Roberts
November 14, 2014
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Transcript
Building Your Own DFIR Sidekick ChatOps for Incident Response
I do incident response @ GitHub Hi, I’m Scott
He Does Basically Everything @ GitHub This is Hubot
“making it easier to work together than to work alone….”
๏ CHatops & Incident Response ๏ Hubot Variable Threat Response
๏ Deploying & Developing Hubot
A Brief Introduction to ChatOps
What is ChatOps?! DevOps + Chat = Chatops Collaborative Terminal
Experience
So What Really is ChatOps?!
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Chat
Chat
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Why Chatops anyway?
Geographically distributed
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asynchronous
multi device
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hides the “ugly” Or at least makes interfaces consistent
“This was always my main motivation with Hubot - teaching
by doing by making things visible.” - @Tomayko
How GitHub Uses Chatops
deploy & monitor servers via Puppet
deploy & monitor Code via Capistrano & Jenkins CI
Monitor Systems via Nagios
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Update our Status Site (Hopefully rarely)
Lookup Funny pictures And Gifs Too!
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Shoutout to MattJay
So what about DFIR?! Hint: We were already Doing It
Managing our pager alerts via pagerduty
Showing Process Lists on Hosts
Changing firewall rules
getting whois information
getting app logs & stats via Splunk & Graphite
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“Swinging the BanHammer”
Other “secret” stuff just come ask me if you’re curious
“making it easier to work together than to work alone….”
“making it easier to Respond to Incidents together than to
Respond alone….”
Hubot VTR
Hubot ๏ node.js based Chat bot ๏ coffeeScript based actions
๏ deployable anywhere you can run node.js (Unix, Windows, Heroku, etc)
๏Disk Forensics ๏Network Forensics ๏Open Source Intelligence ๏Malware Analysis
hubot-vtr modules for dfir
Code name generator Because you can’t call it “That thing
from January” forever
Geolocating IPs But not for attribution...
reverse dns lookups
checking resource reputations mywot, Google, virustotal, & Opendns
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research links generator Robtext, CentralOps, Hurricane Electric…
server profiling via shodan
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malware research via virustotal
passive dns via virustotal
detection generation via yara & Snort
force multipler
Deployment & Development
Deployment Local Or Heroku
3 Components brain + Connector + Scripts
Development CoffeeScript On NodeJs
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Docs Matter
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Hubot’s “Voice”
In Conclusion…
ChatOps can make incident response collaborative & Hubot VTR puts
DFIR tools & tasks in chat
Find Out More Hubot.GitHub.com & GitHub.com/sroberts/hubot-vtr-scripts
Contact Me github & twitter: @sroberts sroberts.github.io
Thanks!!!
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