Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Building Your Own DFIR Sidekick: THREADS Edition
Search
Sponsored
·
Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly.
Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest.
→
Scott J. Roberts
November 14, 2014
Technology
1k
2
Share
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
More Decks by Scott J. Roberts
See All by Scott J. Roberts
LLM SATs FTW
sroberts
0
1.4k
STRAT - A System-Centric Approach to Cyber Resilience
sroberts
0
84
Tortured Responders Dept - Scott & Rebekah's Edition
sroberts
0
170
Skynet the CTI Intern: Building Effective Machine Augmented Intelligence
sroberts
0
190
DRIVING INTELLIGENCE WITH MITRE ATT&CK: LEVERAGING LIMITED RESOURCES TO BUILD AN EVOLVING THREAT REPOSITORY
sroberts
0
130
Exploring Threat Intelligence: Insights and Tools from Vertex Synapse
sroberts
0
120
Homemade Ramen & Threat Intelligence
sroberts
2
620
Introduction to Open Source Security Tools
sroberts
3
5.1k
Building Effective Threat Intelligence Sharing
sroberts
1
150
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
ITエンジニアを取り巻く環境とキャリアパス / A career path for Japanese IT engineers
takatama
4
1.8k
Sony_KMP_Journey_KotlinConf2026
sony
2
200
AIプラットフォームを運用し続けるための可観測性
tanimuyk
4
1k
価格.comをAI駆動で全面刷新する ー 30年分の技術的負債を返し、次の30年の土台をつくる ー
tkyowa
11
10k
TypeScript Compiler APIとPHP-Parserを活用し、TypeScriptとPHPで型を共有する
shuta13
0
320
Agentic ERPをどう設計するか ー 受発注エージェントを動かす、現場の知見と設計思想ー
recerqainc
1
520
AI時代の私の技術インプットとアウトプット術
tonkotsuboy_com
16
8.2k
ルールやカスタム機能、どう使う?理想の出力を引き出すために今知りたいIBM Bob 5つの機能
muehara
0
250
速さだけじゃない! VoidZero ツールが移行先に選ばれる理由
mizdra
PRO
6
730
インフラが苦手でも大丈夫! 紙芝居 Kubernetes -WWGT 10周年編-
aoi1
1
330
サプライチェーンセキュリティの空白地帯 - 信頼できる”依存性”の未来を考える
rung
PRO
2
630
関西に縁あるMicrosoft MVPsが語るCopilotの未来
kasada
0
980
Featured
See All Featured
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
lfama
PRO
7
36k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
59
6.6k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
367
27k
Building Adaptive Systems
keathley
44
3k
Ruling the World: When Life Gets Gamed
codingconduct
0
240
Data-driven link building: lessons from a $708K investment (BrightonSEO talk)
szymonslowik
1
1.1k
The Language of Interfaces
destraynor
162
26k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
88
5.1k
Leveraging LLMs for student feedback in introductory data science courses - posit::conf(2025)
minecr
1
270
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
eileencodes
47
8.1k
Google's AI Overviews - The New Search
badams
0
1k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
29
4.3k
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?!
None
None
Chat
Chat
None
Why Chatops anyway?
Geographically distributed
None
None
asynchronous
multi device
None
None
None
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
None
None
Update our Status Site (Hopefully rarely)
Lookup Funny pictures And Gifs Too!
None
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
None
“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
None
research links generator Robtext, CentralOps, Hurricane Electric…
server profiling via shodan
None
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
None
Docs Matter
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
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!!!
None