Defence Against the Website Defacements – QRadar

Scenario Information

You part of the Official National Organization (ONO) Blue Team, tasked with defending and responding to outsider attacks.

A few days ago your team received a threat intel report stating that an unknown hacker collective is demanding a ransom payment from your organization, otherwise they have threatened to carry out an imminent attack against your publicly-facing website

You and your team have been tasked to defend and respond against any such attacks.

What you will learn

• Reviewing network traffic logs
• Reviewing web application logs
• Finding and fixing vulnerabilities in web application source code

Technical Details

• This scenario is comprised of the following virtual machines:
  • A virtual machine running QRadar
  • A virtual machine running the ONO website

Credentials

Pre-requisites

It is recommended, but not necessary, to be familiar with the following concepts: 

- System Administration 

- Analyzing network traffic logs 

- Analyzing Apache logs 

- Web Application security vulnerabilities