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On a Windows endpoint, review process creation logs to uncover when a built-in utility was used to reveal ARP entries. What exact command was used to list the ARP cache?

On Windows hosts, look through recent PowerShell execution records to find any elevated session where remote management was turned on. What exact command was run to enable PSRemoting?

Investigate Windows process events for PowerShell activity that leverages WMI to register a scheduled task via XML import. What was the name of the XML file supplied to the RegisterByXml method?

On a Linux host, review account management activity in Syslog or process event logs to pinpoint which command was executed to create a new local user. What was the name of the tool invoked?

On Windows systems, disabling RDP via the registry generates registry write events. Investigate registry event logs for modifications under the Terminal Server configuration path. What is the name of the registry value that was changed to disable Remote Desktop Protocol?

In Windows process event logs, you notice both the net time and w32tm commands being executed to display the system time and timezone. Which executor name from the test configuration was responsible for launching these utilities?

Investigate Linux process or syslog records to find any invocation of the 'find' utility used to scan /usr/bin for files with the setuid bit. What was the full command executed?

On a Windows endpoint, someone may have disabled the secure desktop for elevation prompts by modifying a registry setting. Review the registry event logs to identify which registry value name was changed to 0.

On a Windows system, a registry event shows the EnableLUA value under the System policies key was set to 0, effectively disabling UAC. Which utility carried out this change?

A Windows host shows a registry write under DeviceRegistryEvents affecting the System policy path. Investigate entries where the data is set to ‘0’ and determine which registry value was modified to turn off UAC consent prompts.

On a Windows system, PowerShell was used to gather multiple browser credential files into a temp folder and then archive them. What was the name of the resulting ZIP file?

Investigating a Windows device, you suspect a non-standard executable was launched to set up a named pipe for client-server messaging. Determine the name of the executable that was run.

On a Windows device, an attacker ran a PowerShell script to collect system settings including UI language and locale. Identify which cmdlet in the command line was used to obtain the system locale.

Using Linux process or syslog logs, identify the executable that was run to output the system's locale information.

On Windows devices, identify the full command used when the built-in credential manager utility was invoked to list stored credentials. What was the exact command?

In a Linux environment, an elevated process was used to execute a command that read /etc/shadow and redirected its output to a file. Identify what file name was employed to store these results.

On a Windows host, an attacker leveraged COMSVCS.DLL via rundll32.exe to dump the memory of svchost.exe into a file under the Temp directory. Review the file creation logs to determine the exact name of the dump file that was generated.

On a Linux host, a ping command was executed to test internet connectivity. Determine which IP address was used as the ping target.

Review Linux process execution records for any commands that list TCP metric cache entries and filter out loopback interfaces. Which utility was used?

A Windows host executed an ICMP-based network reconnaissance using a looping instruction in cmd.exe. Identify the exact command line that was used to perform the ping sweep.

A process is running under a familiar Windows host name but originates from a user's AppData folder rather than the System32 directory. Identify the filename used to masquerade the PowerShell binary on this Windows device.

Analyze Windows process events for any schtasks.exe commands that created a new task invoking PowerShell. What is the name of the .ps1 script specified to run?

On a Windows system, someone ran PowerShell to copy a file from a remote machine’s C$ share to the local TEMP folder. Using process event logs, what full PowerShell command was executed to perform this action?

A Linux host briefly hosted an HTTP service under /tmp. Examine process creation logs to determine the exact python3 command that was used to start the server on port 9090.

Linux hosts may log events when new files are added to /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Query those logs for a creation or write action in that directory and determine the file name that was added.