Schedules of talks and events at the Packet Hacking Village are available at https://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/dc29. More talks will be added soon. All talks will be streamed on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Periscope.
*nix Processes. Starting, Stopping, and Everything In Between
Nick Roy
Core Topic: Operating Systems: *nix
Recording discusses Linux and Unix processes, starting with a high level overview of what a process is and what the key components are. We then take a look at how the operating system manages multiple processes, what are the main components of a running process, and finally some common syscalls used in Linux when creating processes. Finally, we look at a few code samples to show how these calls are used with a simple shell. All code can be found here to compliment the video: https://github.com/superducktoes/syscall_processes
Nick Roy (Twitter: @superducktoes) currently works for a global security vendor creating training content and researching new attacker patterns and techniques. Previously he worked at an automation platform startup teaching people about the joys and benefits of automation. While not working he lives in Boston with his wife and two cats hunting out the best dive bars in Boston and solving math problems on college chalkboards overnight.
Internet Protocol (IP)
Roy Feng
Core Topic: Core Networking
The Internet Protocol is one of the foundational protocols of the Internet, and is what keeps devices connected. This video talks about the fundamentals of the Internet Protocol.
Roy Feng (Twitter: @LPF613) is a networking and cybersecurity enthusiast. He has six years of experience working as a network engineer and one year working in threat intelligence. His latest role is at a managed security service provider, where he leads a team of incident responders and threat hunters to help investigate and respond to incidents as well as hunt for threats in customer environments. In his spare time, Roy can be seen building and maintaining his home lab, and learning about and tinkering with the latest and greatest technologies.
Linux Binary Analysis w/ Strace
Jared Stroud, Lacework
Core Topic: File Analysis
The strace utility allows for deep insight into what an application is doing on a nix host. While the amount of data produced can be overwhelming, in this video I'll demonstrate how to filter, log and obtain relevant information for a wide variety of use cases around file analysis. From diagnosing a bisheaving application, to revealing a malware's secrets. This video will give a practical introduction in using strace to spy on *nix applications at the syscall level. All resources can be found here: https://www.github.com/lacework-dev/strace_lab_PUBLIC
Jared Stroud (Twitter: @DLL_Cool_J) is a Cloud Security Researcher at Lacework where he focuses on emerging Linux and Cloud platform threats. Previously, he worked at The MITRE Corporation where he contributed Unix and Windows tooling for the ATT&CK Fin7/CARBANAK Evaluation and the Open Source adversary emulation utility CALDERA.
MITRE Engage: A Framework for Adversary Engagement Operations
Stan Bar, Capability Area Lead, Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement, The MITRE Corporation
Gabby Raymond, Co-Capability Area Lead, Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement, The MITRE Corporation
Maretta Morovitz, Senior Cyber Security Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
Core Topic: File/Network Monitoring
For 10+ years MITRE has been engaged in denial, deception, and adversary engagement operations for internal defense and research purposes. We have created MITRE Engage as a framework for planning and communicating about adversary engagement operations. In our talk we include:
- A brief overview of what we mean when we say denial, deception, and adversary engagement
- Our vision for the future and why we think this technology matters
- A brief history of our past experiences (and failures) in this space and how that shaped where we are today
- The official release of MITRE Engage 0.9 Beta and ask for community feedback
- A fictional walkthrough of how you can use Engage to get started in adversary engagement operations
Dr. Stanley Barr is a three-time graduate of University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has a BS in Information Sciences, an MS in Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He has coauthored papers in malware analysis, barrier coverage problems, expert systems for network security, and robotic manufacturing. He has spoken at MILCOM and been a panelist for several conferences. Additionally, he has appeared on several podcasts on adversary engagement and presented at TEDx. Currently, he is a Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corporation. He currently is the Capability Area Leader for Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement. Stan lives with his wife, 5 rescue dogs, and 15 chickens.
Gabby Raymond is a two-time graduate from Tufts University. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science and a M.S. in Computer Science. Her research has spanned topics in intrusion detection, cyber-physical systems, and machine learning applications for security. Gabby recently co-authored a Choose Your Own Adventure style book called "The Toolbox of Innovation" with members of MITRE's Innovation Toolkit team. Outside of work, Gabby enjoys knitting and judging science fairs. Gabby is the Co-Capability Area Lead for Cyber Deception and Adversary Engagement at The MITRE Corporation.
Maretta Morovitz is a graduate of Tufts University School of Engineering, where she graduated with a degree in Computer Science. She is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation where she works in the areas of adversary engagement, malware analysis, and reverse engineering. She is a founding member of MITRE's Cyber Deterrence and Adversary Management (CDAM) team and has helped shape MITRE's adversary engagement work for the last two years. She was recently named as one fo the AFCEA 40 Under 40 Awardees for 2021. Outside of work you can find her nerding out about the latest Brandon Sanderson novel, still anxiously awaiting her letter from Hogwarts, or snuggling with her dog and hedgehog.
RCE via Meow Variant along with an Example 0day
Özkan Mustafa AKKUŞ, Senior Cyber Security Consultant and Vulnerability Researcher at Turk Telekom
Core Topic: Operating Systems: *nix
I will touch Some Alternative Bypass Restriction Techniques. Then I will present a vulnerability of Ericsson Network Location that provides the infrastructure of the research and we are going to touch on the meow variant with details through this vulnerability Towards the end we are going to prepare a Metasploit module and exploit the vulnerability.
Ozkan (Twitter: @ehakkus) is a vulnerability researcher and senior cyber security consultant in Turkey. Ozkan publishes security vulnerabilities on international platforms that he has discovered. He shares his experiences and works on his personal blog (https://www.pentest.com.tr). He gave training and presentations in many universities and institutions in his country. In addition to these studies, He gave the presentation of "The Vulnerability That Gmail Overlooked and Enabling Threat Hunting" in Packet Hacking Village at DEF CON 28 and "0day Hunting and RCE Exploitation in Web Applications" in AppSec Village at DEF CON 27.
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees – Foundations of Event Log Analysis
Jake Williams, CTO of BreachQuest
Core Topic: System Forensics
During an incident, everyone knows you need to review the logs – but what are they actually telling you? There's a wealth of information to be had in your logs event logs, but most analysts miss the forest because they don't understand the trees. In this talk, Jake will walk you through some of the most impactful event logs to focus on in your analysis. We'll target some old favorites covering login events, service creation, and process execution. We'll also examine task scheduler logs, useful in uncovering lateral movement and privilege escalation. Finally, we'll discuss some of the new event logs available in Windows 10 (if only you enable them first). If you don't want to be barking up the wrong tree during your next insider investigation or getting axed because you failed to identify the lateral movement attempts, make sure to watch this video.
Jake Williams (Twitter: @malwarejake) is an incident responder, red teamer, occasional vCISO, and prolific infosec shitposter. He has traveled the world, but isn't welcome in China or Russia (and avoids most countries they have extradition treaties with). When not speaking at a conference like this one, it's a good bet that Jake is engaged in hand to hand combat with an adversary rooted deep in a network or engineering ways to keep them out. Jake's career in infosec started in the intelligence community, but has taken around the world securing networks of all shapes and sizes, from utilities to hospitals to manufacturing plants.
Seeing Through The Windows: Centralizing Windows Logs For Greater Visibility
Matthew Gracie, Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions
Core Topic: Operating Systems: Windows
This talk is a brief summary of how to collect and centralize Windows Event Logs for analysis and free tools that can be used to do so. There is also a demonstration of how to use Elastic Stack to investigate an incident using these collected logs.
Matthew Gracie (Twitter: @InfosecGoon) has over a decade of experience in information security, working to defend networks in higher education, manufacturing, and financial services. He is currently a Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions and the founder of the Infosec 716 monthly meetup. Matt enjoys good beer, mountain bikes, Debian-based Linux distributions, and college hockey.
The War for Control of DNS Encryption
Dr. Paul Vixie, Chairman and CEO and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc.
Core Topic: Core Networking
Pervasive monitoring of the Internet by both government, corporate, and criminal actors has triggered an encryption wavefront as wide as the Internet itself. DNS, as the map of the Internet's territory, is seen as especially sensitive and there are now several competing encryption standards waiting to be deployed. In this short talk, Dr. Vixie will explain the original problem, describe the protocol-level solutions, and then show how vendors like Google, Mozilla Corporation, Microsoft, and Apple are deploying these technologies across their product lines. Opinions may also be offered.
Dr. Paul Vixie (Twitter: @PaulVixie) is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and DNSSEC. Dr. Vixie is a prolific author of open-source Internet software including BIND, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). He earned his Ph.D. from Keio University.
First Batch of Accepted Packet Hacking Village Talks at DEF CON 29 Announced
Schedules of talks and events at the Packet Hacking Village are available at https://www.wallofsheep.com/pages/dc29. More talks will be added soon. All talks will be streamed on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Periscope.
*nix Processes. Starting, Stopping, and Everything In Between
Nick Roy
Core Topic: Operating Systems: *nix
Recording discusses Linux and Unix processes, starting with a high level overview of what a process is and what the key components are. We then take a look at how the operating system manages multiple processes, what are the main components of a running process, and finally some common syscalls used in Linux when creating processes. Finally, we look at a few code samples to show how these calls are used with a simple shell. All code can be found here to compliment the video: https://github.com/superducktoes/syscall_processes
Nick Roy (Twitter: @superducktoes) currently works for a global security vendor creating training content and researching new attacker patterns and techniques. Previously he worked at an automation platform startup teaching people about the joys and benefits of automation. While not working he lives in Boston with his wife and two cats hunting out the best dive bars in Boston and solving math problems on college chalkboards overnight.
Internet Protocol (IP)
Roy Feng
Core Topic: Core Networking
The Internet Protocol is one of the foundational protocols of the Internet, and is what keeps devices connected. This video talks about the fundamentals of the Internet Protocol.
Roy Feng (Twitter: @LPF613) is a networking and cybersecurity enthusiast. He has six years of experience working as a network engineer and one year working in threat intelligence. His latest role is at a managed security service provider, where he leads a team of incident responders and threat hunters to help investigate and respond to incidents as well as hunt for threats in customer environments. In his spare time, Roy can be seen building and maintaining his home lab, and learning about and tinkering with the latest and greatest technologies.
Linux Binary Analysis w/ Strace
Jared Stroud, Lacework
Core Topic: File Analysis
The strace utility allows for deep insight into what an application is doing on a nix host. While the amount of data produced can be overwhelming, in this video I'll demonstrate how to filter, log and obtain relevant information for a wide variety of use cases around file analysis. From diagnosing a bisheaving application, to revealing a malware's secrets. This video will give a practical introduction in using strace to spy on *nix applications at the syscall level. All resources can be found here: https://www.github.com/lacework-dev/strace_lab_PUBLIC
Jared Stroud (Twitter: @DLL_Cool_J) is a Cloud Security Researcher at Lacework where he focuses on emerging Linux and Cloud platform threats. Previously, he worked at The MITRE Corporation where he contributed Unix and Windows tooling for the ATT&CK Fin7/CARBANAK Evaluation and the Open Source adversary emulation utility CALDERA.
MITRE Engage: A Framework for Adversary Engagement Operations
Stan Bar, Capability Area Lead, Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement, The MITRE Corporation
Gabby Raymond, Co-Capability Area Lead, Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement, The MITRE Corporation
Maretta Morovitz, Senior Cyber Security Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
Core Topic: File/Network Monitoring
For 10+ years MITRE has been engaged in denial, deception, and adversary engagement operations for internal defense and research purposes. We have created MITRE Engage as a framework for planning and communicating about adversary engagement operations. In our talk we include:
Dr. Stanley Barr is a three-time graduate of University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has a BS in Information Sciences, an MS in Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He has coauthored papers in malware analysis, barrier coverage problems, expert systems for network security, and robotic manufacturing. He has spoken at MILCOM and been a panelist for several conferences. Additionally, he has appeared on several podcasts on adversary engagement and presented at TEDx. Currently, he is a Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corporation. He currently is the Capability Area Leader for Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement. Stan lives with his wife, 5 rescue dogs, and 15 chickens.
Gabby Raymond is a two-time graduate from Tufts University. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science and a M.S. in Computer Science. Her research has spanned topics in intrusion detection, cyber-physical systems, and machine learning applications for security. Gabby recently co-authored a Choose Your Own Adventure style book called "The Toolbox of Innovation" with members of MITRE's Innovation Toolkit team. Outside of work, Gabby enjoys knitting and judging science fairs. Gabby is the Co-Capability Area Lead for Cyber Deception and Adversary Engagement at The MITRE Corporation.
Maretta Morovitz is a graduate of Tufts University School of Engineering, where she graduated with a degree in Computer Science. She is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation where she works in the areas of adversary engagement, malware analysis, and reverse engineering. She is a founding member of MITRE's Cyber Deterrence and Adversary Management (CDAM) team and has helped shape MITRE's adversary engagement work for the last two years. She was recently named as one fo the AFCEA 40 Under 40 Awardees for 2021. Outside of work you can find her nerding out about the latest Brandon Sanderson novel, still anxiously awaiting her letter from Hogwarts, or snuggling with her dog and hedgehog.
RCE via Meow Variant along with an Example 0day
Özkan Mustafa AKKUŞ, Senior Cyber Security Consultant and Vulnerability Researcher at Turk Telekom
Core Topic: Operating Systems: *nix
I will touch Some Alternative Bypass Restriction Techniques. Then I will present a vulnerability of Ericsson Network Location that provides the infrastructure of the research and we are going to touch on the meow variant with details through this vulnerability Towards the end we are going to prepare a Metasploit module and exploit the vulnerability.
Ozkan (Twitter: @ehakkus) is a vulnerability researcher and senior cyber security consultant in Turkey. Ozkan publishes security vulnerabilities on international platforms that he has discovered. He shares his experiences and works on his personal blog (https://www.pentest.com.tr). He gave training and presentations in many universities and institutions in his country. In addition to these studies, He gave the presentation of "The Vulnerability That Gmail Overlooked and Enabling Threat Hunting" in Packet Hacking Village at DEF CON 28 and "0day Hunting and RCE Exploitation in Web Applications" in AppSec Village at DEF CON 27.
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees – Foundations of Event Log Analysis
Jake Williams, CTO of BreachQuest
Core Topic: System Forensics
During an incident, everyone knows you need to review the logs – but what are they actually telling you? There's a wealth of information to be had in your logs event logs, but most analysts miss the forest because they don't understand the trees. In this talk, Jake will walk you through some of the most impactful event logs to focus on in your analysis. We'll target some old favorites covering login events, service creation, and process execution. We'll also examine task scheduler logs, useful in uncovering lateral movement and privilege escalation. Finally, we'll discuss some of the new event logs available in Windows 10 (if only you enable them first). If you don't want to be barking up the wrong tree during your next insider investigation or getting axed because you failed to identify the lateral movement attempts, make sure to watch this video.
Jake Williams (Twitter: @malwarejake) is an incident responder, red teamer, occasional vCISO, and prolific infosec shitposter. He has traveled the world, but isn't welcome in China or Russia (and avoids most countries they have extradition treaties with). When not speaking at a conference like this one, it's a good bet that Jake is engaged in hand to hand combat with an adversary rooted deep in a network or engineering ways to keep them out. Jake's career in infosec started in the intelligence community, but has taken around the world securing networks of all shapes and sizes, from utilities to hospitals to manufacturing plants.
Seeing Through The Windows: Centralizing Windows Logs For Greater Visibility
Matthew Gracie, Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions
Core Topic: Operating Systems: Windows
This talk is a brief summary of how to collect and centralize Windows Event Logs for analysis and free tools that can be used to do so. There is also a demonstration of how to use Elastic Stack to investigate an incident using these collected logs.
Matthew Gracie (Twitter: @InfosecGoon) has over a decade of experience in information security, working to defend networks in higher education, manufacturing, and financial services. He is currently a Senior Engineer at Security Onion Solutions and the founder of the Infosec 716 monthly meetup. Matt enjoys good beer, mountain bikes, Debian-based Linux distributions, and college hockey.
The War for Control of DNS Encryption
Dr. Paul Vixie, Chairman and CEO and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc.
Core Topic: Core Networking
Pervasive monitoring of the Internet by both government, corporate, and criminal actors has triggered an encryption wavefront as wide as the Internet itself. DNS, as the map of the Internet's territory, is seen as especially sensitive and there are now several competing encryption standards waiting to be deployed. In this short talk, Dr. Vixie will explain the original problem, describe the protocol-level solutions, and then show how vendors like Google, Mozilla Corporation, Microsoft, and Apple are deploying these technologies across their product lines. Opinions may also be offered.
Dr. Paul Vixie (Twitter: @PaulVixie) is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and DNSSEC. Dr. Vixie is a prolific author of open-source Internet software including BIND, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). He earned his Ph.D. from Keio University.