Internet Explorer Version Discovery#

Metadata#

Contributors

Roberto Rodriguez @Cyb3rWard0g

Creation Date

2020/10/21

Modification Date

2020/10/21

Tactics

TA0007

Techniques

T1518

Tags

art.68981660-6670-47ee-a5fa-7e74806420a4

Dataset Description#

This dataset represents threat actors querying HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer to get the version of internet explorer installed on the system.

Simulation Metadata#

Tools#

type

Name

Module

Manual

cmd

cmd

Adversary View#

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" /v svcVersion

Explore Datasets#

Download & Decompress Dataset#

import requests
from zipfile import ZipFile
from io import BytesIO

url = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OTRF/Security-Datasets/master/datasets/atomic/windows/discovery/host/cmd_discover_iexplorer_version_registry.zip
zipFileRequest = requests.get(url)
zipFile = ZipFile(BytesIO(zipFileRequest.content))
datasetJSONPath = zipFile.extract(zipFile.namelist()[0])

Read JSON File#

from pandas.io import json

df = json.read_json(path_or_buf=datasetJSONPath, lines=True)

Access Security Events#

df.groupby(['Channel']).size().sort_values(ascending=False)