Phishing Playbook - Manual

Master playbook for phishing incidents. This playbook is a manual playbook.

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Master playbook for phishing incidents. This playbook is a manual playbook.

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Scripts

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no yes no yes no yes yes yes start_task start_task Engage Engage Notify management chain Notify management chain Initial triage Initial triage Investigation Step 1: Initial Inspection Investigation Step 1: Ini... Inspect the email body for malicious URLs Inspect the email body fo... Inspect the email attachments Inspect the email attachm... Is the sender name or email address identified as bad by threat feeds? Is the sender name or ema... Check if the hostname is being misrepresented? Check if the hostname is ... Is this a real phishing email? Is this a real phishing e... Close the investigation as false positive Close the investigation a... Assess severity Assess severity Assign and involve appropriate personnel Assign and involve approp... Investigation Step 2: Deeper Analysis Investigation Step 2: Dee... Get all the URLs from the email Get all the URLs from the... Get all the hostnames inside the email Get all the hostnames ins... Fetch all the files from the URL Fetch all the files from ... Are the files download malicious - hash inspection? Are the files download ma... Are the files download malicious - static and dynamic analysis? Are the files download ma... Is any URL malicious based on sandbox inspection? Is any URL malicious base... Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section" Consider this email as ph... Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section" Consider this email as ph... Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section" Consider this email as ph... Investigation Step 3: Is it a Campaign? Investigation Step 3: Is ... Did we have a similar phishing email earlier? Did we have a similar phi... Mark this as a campaign rather than isolated incident. Mark this as a campaign r... Link old and new incidents to this master incident. Link old and new incident... Respond Respond Notify internal PR team if this is a campaign Notify internal PR team i... Block email on the server Block email on the server Notify IT to update SPAM filters Notify IT to update SPAM ... Notify email security vendor Notify email security vendor Remove email from inboxes Remove email from inboxes Blackholing phishing domain on Domain Controller Blackholing phishing doma... Blocking download URL Blocking download URL Report malware sample to AV vendors Report malware sample to ...

Source

playbook-Phishing_-_Phishing.yml
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name: Phishing Playbook - Manual
description: Master playbook for phishing incidents. This playbook is a manual playbook.
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      name: Notify management chain
      description: 'Notify appropriate people inside the organization. '
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      name: Initial triage
      description: 1. Make sure that there is relevant information in the incident - system name, end user name and initial severity as reported.
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      version: -1
      name: Inspect the email body for malicious URLs
      description: Check the email body attached to the incident and see if it has malicious URLs in it using threat feeds
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
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      name: Inspect the email attachments
      description: Check the attachments with threat services to see if any of them is known bad
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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      version: -1
      name: Is the sender name or email address identified as bad by threat feeds?
      description: Check the sender email and name against threat feed sources.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
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      name: Check if the hostname is being misrepresented?
      description: |-
        Check if domain of sender or any hostname in the URLs inside the email body are misrepresented. See if the URL text versus the hostname shown are different by comparing the link with the text. Also carefully inspected the URLs for spelling spoofing which
         is typically a sign of phishing email.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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    type: condition
    task:
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      version: -1
      name: Is this a real phishing email?
      description: Based on the steps above, is this really a phishing email?
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
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      name: Close the investigation as false positive
      description: Close the investigation as false positive and reply to the user sending the email that it is not malicious.
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      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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      name: Assess severity
      description: 'Based on the end user affected, and other information assess and change the severity if needed. '
      type: regular
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    nexttasks:
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    task:
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      name: Assign and involve appropriate personnel
      description: 'Invite the relevant users for investigation - malware expert and network experts if needed. '
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      name: 'Investigation Step 2: Deeper Analysis'
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      version: -1
      description: ""
      name: Get all the URLs from the email
      iscommand: false
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      name: Get all the hostnames inside the email
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    task:
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      name: Fetch all the files from the URL
      description: 'Use curl or similar tool to download all the files from the URLs in the email. '
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
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    view: |-
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  "18":
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      name: Are the files download malicious - hash inspection?
      description: Check the files MD5 and SHA1 against the threat feed databases.
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      name: Are the files download malicious - static and dynamic analysis?
      description: Check the files in a sandbox solution to see if they are malicious.
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    nexttasks:
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      "yes":
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      name: Is any URL malicious based on sandbox inspection?
      description: 'Use Cuckoo or similar sandbox solutions for fetching the content of the URL for deeper analysis. '
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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      "yes":
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      version: -1
      description: ""
      name: Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section"
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      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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    view: |-
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      name: Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section"
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    nexttasks:
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      description: ""
      name: Consider this email as phishing and move to "Response Section"
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
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  "24":
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    type: title
    task:
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      version: -1
      description: ""
      name: 'Investigation Step 3: Is it a Campaign?'
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "25"
    view: |-
      {
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    type: condition
    task:
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      version: -1
      name: Did we have a similar phishing email earlier?
      description: Search past phishing investigations for subject sender, email content and URLs.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
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      - "28"
      "yes":
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    view: |-
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  "26":
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    task:
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      version: -1
      description: ""
      name: Mark this as a campaign rather than isolated incident.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "27"
    view: |-
      {
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  "27":
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    type: regular
    task:
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      version: -1
      name: Link old and new incidents to this master incident.
      description: Future emails with similar subject should be associated with this incident
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "28"
    view: |-
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      }
  "28":
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    taskid: 0386fa2c-a246-4dd9-8592-976b630148fc
    type: title
    task:
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      version: -1
      description: ""
      name: Respond
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "29"
    view: |-
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      }
  "29":
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    type: regular
    task:
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      version: -1
      name: Notify internal PR team if this is a campaign
      description: 'If we identified multiple emails with similar content, subject and identified this as a campaign, we need to notify our users. Send an email to internal communications team with the details - like sender, content etc. '
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "30"
    view: |-
      {
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      }
  "30":
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    taskid: a0b42339-fa44-4215-8fdd-8dc900011dd8
    type: regular
    task:
      id: a0b42339-fa44-4215-8fdd-8dc900011dd8
      version: -1
      name: Block email on the server
      description: |-
        Identify the appropriate headers from the initial email beyond subject
         and sender email to make sure we can effectively block this on server. This
         task needs analysis of header to make sure we do not block other emails and
         still be effective in blocking.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "31"
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      {
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  "31":
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    type: regular
    task:
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      version: -1
      name: Notify IT to update SPAM filters
      description: 'Give IT the phishing email so that they can train the SPAM filter with this email to avoid future attacks. '
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "32"
    view: |-
      {
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        }
      }
  "32":
    id: "32"
    taskid: f487ba1c-d67b-40f2-8cf8-85f646b0d768
    type: regular
    task:
      id: f487ba1c-d67b-40f2-8cf8-85f646b0d768
      version: -1
      name: Notify email security vendor
      description: |-
        Forward all the details to your security vendor for email security
         solution. This will help them with the future updates.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "33"
    view: |-
      {
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        }
      }
  "33":
    id: "33"
    taskid: 1b6d8f94-452c-43b2-8606-da89d3f738c8
    type: regular
    task:
      id: 1b6d8f94-452c-43b2-8606-da89d3f738c8
      version: -1
      name: Remove email from inboxes
      description: 'Work with IT to completely delete similar emails from all user inboxes. Search through the SMTP logs to find all the recipients and delete the emails. '
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "34"
    view: |-
      {
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      }
  "34":
    id: "34"
    taskid: c47f9b5a-cba2-4b2c-89ca-0c1003e9c295
    type: regular
    task:
      id: c47f9b5a-cba2-4b2c-89ca-0c1003e9c295
      version: -1
      name: Blackholing phishing domain on Domain Controller
      description: |-
        Work with IT to black hole the phishing domains (this particular
         and related ones from other emails and incidents that were marked duplicate).
         This should be blocked on the domain controller by resolving to 127.0.0.1
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "35"
    view: |-
      {
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        }
      }
  "35":
    id: "35"
    taskid: b3e805e2-2566-4f28-884d-dcc8a8fe3573
    type: regular
    task:
      id: b3e805e2-2566-4f28-884d-dcc8a8fe3573
      version: -1
      name: Blocking download URL
      description: |2-
         1. Try to identify a pattern in the URL. For example if the URL is: http://hackedwebsite.com/dl.php?campaign=ra&id=12731342834923919
         2. Create a reasonable regex like: ^.+/dl.php?.*campaign=ra.$
         3. Contact the proxy team to block URLs based on the pattern
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    nexttasks:
      '#none#':
      - "36"
    view: |-
      {
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        }
      }
  "36":
    id: "36"
    taskid: ffa62d59-1b44-4305-8324-3cc29f4585ff
    type: regular
    task:
      id: ffa62d59-1b44-4305-8324-3cc29f4585ff
      version: -1
      name: Report malware sample to AV vendors
      description: Report all the files that were downloaded from URL to AV vendor and virustotal like services.
      iscommand: false
      brand: ""
    view: |-
      {
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          "x": 50,
          "y": 5842
        }
      }
view: |-
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    "linkLabelsPosition": {},
    "paper": {
      "dimensions": {
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    }
  }
tests:
- No tests