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Start Threat And Attack Types PracticeA phishing campaign is targeting your organization. Which Splunk ES module is best suited to track the delivery of the malicious email URLs?
Explanation: The Threat Intelligence module in Splunk Enterprise Security is designed to ingest, manage, and match threat indicators (IPs, domains, URLs, file hashes) against event data. For a phishing campaign delivering malicious URLs, the Threat Intelligence framework lets analysts track those URLs as indicators and correlate them with email and web traffic, making it the best module for tracking delivery of malicious email URLs.
An attacker is attempting to use a 'Pass-the-Hash' technique. Which authentication log event code in Windows (Event ID 4624) should you look for to detect this?
Explanation: Event ID 4624 is the Windows Security log event for a successful logon, and it is the event that Pass-the-Hash detection focuses on because the attacker authenticates successfully using a stolen NTLM hash rather than a plaintext password. Within 4624, the Logon Type (commonly 3 for network or 9 for NewCredentials) and the Authentication Package (NTLM) fields reveal the anomalous pattern. Splunk ES correlates these 4624 events against known-good baselines to flag hash-based lateral movement.
A user reports receiving a suspicious email containing an attachment. Which Splunk ES feature allows you to quickly search for this file hash across your environment?
Explanation: The 'Search' bar or 'Notable Event' context menus allow for rapid cross-environment investigation.
You notice a high volume of traffic from an internal workstation to a non-standard port on an external server. Which search helps identify the frequency of this connection?
Explanation: tstats is the correct choice because it queries accelerated data model summaries rather than raw events, delivering dramatically faster results for high-volume statistical searches like counting connections to a specific external port. For a hunt involving a high volume of traffic, tstats with a data model such as Network_Traffic or Web can return frequency counts in seconds where a raw search would take minutes. This performance advantage is exactly why tstats is the recommended tool for repetitive, high-cardinality hunting queries.
You need to correlate a VPN login with a subsequent file access on an internal server. Which Splunk ES feature helps you link these disparate events?
Explanation: Data Models in Splunk ES provide structured, accelerated datasets that normalize fields across disparate sources, enabling correlation between events like a VPN login and a subsequent file access. By mapping both event types into common fields (user, src, dest, action), the data model allows a single search to link them. This is the ES feature designed for cross-source correlation.
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