Proactive Threat Hunting

This playbook is the main playbook of the 'Proactive Threat Hunting' pack. It automatically runs during a new hunting session and guides the threat hunter through the session based on the selected hunting method. The available hunting methods are: - SDO Hunt: Constructs the hunting hypothesis based on SDO indicators (Campaign, Malware, Intrusion Set). - Freestyle Hunt: Allows the threat hunter to provide their own queries and IOCs for hunting.

Proactive Threat Hunting · 11 tasks · 3 inputs · 0 outputs

Details

ID	`Proactive Threat Hunting`
From Version	6.9.0
Tasks	11

README

This playbook is the main playbook of the ‘Proactive Threat Hunting’ pack. It automatically runs during a new hunting session and guides the threat hunter through the session based on the selected hunting method. The available hunting methods are:

SDO Hunt: Constructs the hunting hypothesis based on SDO indicators (Campaign, Malware, Intrusion Set).
Freestyle Hunt: Allows the threat hunter to provide their own queries and IOCs for hunting.

Dependencies

This playbook uses the following sub-playbooks, integrations, and scripts.

Sub-playbooks

Proactive Threat Hunting - SDO Threat Hunting

Integrations

This playbook does not use any integrations.

Scripts

Commands

setIncident

Playbook Inputs

Name	Description	Default Value	Required
IncidentTag	A tag that will be attached to Threat Hunting incidents.	Threat Hunting	Optional
HuntingTimeFrame	Time in relative date or range format (for example: “1 day”, “3 weeks ago”, “between 2021-01-01 12:34:56 +02:00 and 2021-02-01 12:34:56 +02:00”). The query execution script default is the last 24 hours.	7 Days	Optional
StringSimilarityThreshold	StringSimilarity automation threshold. StringSimilarity is being used in this playbook to compare between pattern of malicious use in a tool and command-line arguments found in the environment. Please provide number between 0 and 1, where 1 represents the most similar results of string comparisons. The automation will output only the results with a similarity score equal to or greater than the specified threshold.	0.5	Optional

Playbook Outputs

There are no outputs for this playbook.

Playbook Image

Proactive Threat Hunting

Inputs

IncidentTag — A tag that will be attached to Threat Hunting incidents.
StringSimilarityThreshold — StringSimilarity automation threshold. StringSimilarity is being used in this playbook to compare between pattern of malicious use in a tool and command-line arguments found in the environment. Please provide number between 0 and 1, where 1 represents the most similar results of string comparisons. The automation will output only the results with a similarity score equal to or greater than the specified threshold.
HuntingTimeFrame — Time in relative date or range format (for example: "1 day", "3 weeks ago", "between 2021-01-01 12:34:56 +02:00 and 2021-02-01 12:34:56 +02:00"). The query execution script default is the last 24 hours.

Commands used

setIncident

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id: Proactive Threat Hunting - Block Account
version: -1
name: Proactive Threat Hunting - Block Account
description: This playbook will be executed from the "Proactive Threat Hunting" layout button with the objective of blocking a user specified by the analyst.
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tests:
- No tests (auto formatted)
fromversion: 6.9.0