Getting Analysis Practice from Windows Event Log Sample Attacks

This article walks through analyzing Windows event log samples (Sysmon EVTX) from a public GitHub repository to practice detection of malicious activity—focusing on a lateral movement example that uses malicious named pipes (Sysmon Event ID 18) and related Event ID 1 artifacts such as CurrentDirectory, User, PowerShell command patterns and the invocation of whoami; it demonstrates using Sigma rules and the Windows Event Viewer to identify and investigate these indicators.