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PowerHunt

PowerHunt is a modular threat hunting framework written in PowerShell that leverages PowerShell Remoting for data collection on scale.

It is designed to identify signs of compromise based on artifacts left behind by common MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and the collected data can be used to identify anomalies and outliers specific to the target environment. It was not designed to identify known bad files, domains, or IPs associated with specific APTs/malware, but I'm sure it could be extened to do that.

It supports functionality to:

• Authenticate using the current user context, a credential, or clear text user/password.
• Discover accessible systems associated with an Active Directory domain automatically.
• Target a single computer, list of computers, or discovered Active Directory computers (default).
• Collect data source information from target systems using PowerShell Remoting and easy to build collection modules.
• Analyze collected data using easy to build analysis modules based on behavior.
• Report summary data and initial insights that can help analysts get started on simple threat hunting exercises that focus on common persistence and related techniques.

This is not a novel approach to threat hunting, but I thought the project was worth sharing, because in certain environments the automation can be a time saver.

User and developer guides can be found on the wiki here.

Author
Scott Sutherland (@_nullbind)

License
BSD 3-Clause