CCFR-201 CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Responder Question and Answers

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, IOC Management allows you to manage indicators of compromise (IOCs), which are artifacts such as hashes, IP addresses, or domains that are associated with malicious activities2. You can set different actions for IOCs, such as Allow, No Action, or Always Block2. When you set a hash to Always Block through IOC Management, you are preventing that file from executing on any host in your organization by default2. This action also generates a detection alert when the file is blocked2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Hash Search tool allows you to search for one or more SHA256 hashes and view a summary of information from Falcon events that contain those hashes1. The summary includes the hostname, sensor ID, OS, country, city, ISP, ASN, geolocation, process name, command line, and organizational unit of the host that loaded or executed those hashes1. You can also see a count of detections and incidents related to those hashes1. Under Process Executions, you can see the process name and command line for each hash execution1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, IOA exclusions allow you to exclude files or directories from being detected or blocked by CrowdStrike’s indicators of attack (IOAs), which are behavioral rules that identify malicious activities2. This can reduce false positives and improve performance2. IOA exclusions only apply to IOA based detections, not other types of detections such as machine learning, custom IOA, or OverWatch2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the IP Search tool allows you to search for an IP address and view a summary of information from Falcon events that contain that IP address1. The summary includes the hostname, sensor ID, OS, country, city, ISP, ASN, and geolocation of the host that communicated with that IP address1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, Sensor Visibility Exclusions allow you to exclude certain files or directories from being monitored by the CrowdStrike sensor, which can reduce noise and improve performance2. This means that no events will be collected or sent to the CrowdStrike Cloud for those files or directories2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, the Detections page allows you to view and manage detections generated by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform2. You can use various filters to narrow down the detections based on criteria such asstatus, severity, tactic, technique, etc2. To view ‘in-progress’ detections assigned to Falcon Analyst Alex, you can filter on ‘Status: In-Progress’ and 'Assigned-to: Alex*'2. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard that matches any characters after Alex2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Hash Search tool allows you to search for one or more SHA256 hashes and view a summary of information from Falcon events that contain those hashes1. The summary includes the hostname, sensor ID, OS, country, city, ISP, ASN, geolocation, process name, command line, and organizational unit of the host that loaded or executed those hashes1. You can also see a count of detections and incidents related to those hashes1. The primary purpose for running a Hash Search is to review information surrounding a hash’s related activity, such as which hosts and processes were involved, where they were located, and whether they triggered any alerts1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Full Detection Details tool allows you to view detailed information about a detection, such as detection ID, severity, tactic, technique, description, etc1. You can also view the events generated by the processes involved in the detection in different ways, such as process tree, process timeline, or process activity1. The process activity view provides a rows-and-columns style view of the events, such as DNS requests, registry operations, network operations, etc1. You can also export this view to a CSV file for further analysis1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, global prevalence is a field that indicates how frequently the hash of a file is seen across all CrowdStrike customer environments1. A global prevalence of common means that the file is widely distributed and likely benign1. However, if you do not know what the executable is, you may want to investigate it further to confirm its legitimacy and functionality1. One way to do that is to click the VT Hash button from the detection, which will pivot you to VirusTotal, a service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, malware, and other threats1. You can then see more information about the file, such as its name, size, type, signatures, detections, comments, etc1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Process Timeline search returns all cloudable events associated with a given process, such as process creation, network connections, file writes, registry modifications, etc1. This allows you to see a comprehensive view of what a process was doing on a host1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, the Detections page allows you to view and manage detections generated by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform2. You can use various filters to narrow down the detections based on criteria such as severity, CrowdScore, time, tactic, technique, etc2. However, there is no filter for triggering file, which is the file that caused the detection2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Host Timeline tool allows you to view all events recorded by the sensor for a given host in a chronological order1. The events include process executions, file writes, registry modifications, network connections, user logins, etc1. You can use various filters to narrow down the events based on criteria such as event type, timestamp range, file name, registry key, network destination, etc1. However, there is no filter for severity, user name, or detection ID, as these are not attributes of the events1.

According to the [MITRE ATT&CK website], MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base of adversary behaviors and techniques based on real-world observations. The knowledge base is organized into tactics and techniques, where tactics are the high-level goals of an adversary, such as initial access, persistence, lateral movement, etc., and techniques are the specific ways an adversary can achieve those goals, such as phishing, credential dumping, remote file copy, etc. Credential Access via OS Credential Dumping is an example of a tactic and technique combination sourced from MITRE ATT&CK information, which describes how adversaries can obtain credentials from operating system memory or disk storage by using tools such as Mimikatz or ProcDump.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Process Timeline tool allows you to view all cloudable events associated with a given process, such as process creation, network connections, file writes, registry modifications, etc2. The tool requires two parameters: aid (agent ID) and TargetProcessId_decimal (the decimal value of the process ID)2. These fields can be obtained from any event that involves the process, such as a FileOpenInfo event, which contains information about a file being opened by a process2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Bulk Domain Search tool allows you to search for one or more domains and view a summary of information from Falcon events that contain those domains1. The summary includes the domain name, IP address, country, city, ISP, ASN, geolocation, hostname, sensor ID, OS, process name, command line, and organizational unit of the host that communicated with those domains1. This means that the tool contains domain information along with IP lookup information1.