Introduction
We covered the basics and introduction of Osquery For CyberSecurity. We went over querying Windows, MacOs and Linux SQL tables. This was part of TryHackMe Osquery: The Basics
Osquery is an open-source agent created by Facebook in 2014. It converts the operating system into a relational database. It allows us to ask questions from the tables using SQL queries, like returning the list of running processes, a user account created on the host, and the process of communicating with certain suspicious domains. It is widely used by Security Analysts, Incident Responders, Threat Hunters, etc. Osquery can be installed on multiple platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.
The following learning objectives are covered:
- What is Osquery, and what problem it solves?
- Osquery in Interactive Mode
- How to use the interactive mode of Osquery to interact with the operating system
- How to join two tables to get a single answer
Challenge Answers
Looking at the schema of the processes table, which column displays the process id for the particular process?
Examine the .help command, how many output display modes are available for the .mode command?
In Osquery version 5.5.1, how many tables for MAC OS are available?
In the Windows Operating system, which table is used to display the installed programs?
In Windows Operating system, which column contains the registry value within the registry table?
When we run the following search query, what is the full SID of the user with RID ‘1009’?
Query: select path, key, name from registry where key = ‘HKEY_USERS’;
When we run the following search query, what is the Internet Explorer browser extension installed on this machine?
Query: select * from ie_extensions;
After running the following query, what is the full name of the program returned?
Query: select name,install_location from programs where name LIKE ‘%wireshark%’;
Which table stores the evidence of process execution in Windows OS?
One of the users seems to have executed a program to remove traces from the disk; what is the name of that program?
Create a search query to identify the VPN installed on this host. What is name of the software?
How many services are running on this host?
A table autoexec contains the list of executables that are automatically executed on the target machine. There seems to be a batch file that runs automatically. What is the name of that batch file (with the extension .bat)?
What is the full path of the batch file found in the above question? (Last in the List)
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