Pyramid Of Pain: Understanding Attack Difficulty Levels
Pyramid of pain: attackers' difficulty level in changing indicators (hashes, IP, domain names). Hashes: authenticating files & messages with fixed-size values. Tools: VirusTotal, MetaDefender Cloud, Powershell script.
Pyramid of pain Pyramid of pain is about determining the level of difficulty it will cause for an attacker to change the indication associated with them and their group The pyramid is at the top indicates the most difficult part to change and lowest is the easiet. Hashes Hashes is a way of authenticating the legitimate of file, message etc. It takes one input and generates a fixed sized hash value. A hash algorthim is considered to be not secure if 2 files can have same hash value. If the attacker tries to use a known malware the hash of the malware can be compared against already known malw...