Threat Hunting and Tactical Malware Analysis

The report provides a high-level primer on threat hunting and tactical malware analysis, advocating a structured, hypothesis-driven approach informed by intelligence, data, and knowledge of adversary TTPs. It outlines practical Windows triage steps—reviewing processes (tasklist), network connections (netstat -anob), and common persistence locations (services, scheduled tasks, and specific registry keys)—while emphasizing careful handling to preserve volatile forensic artifacts. The piece aims to help practitioners recognize anomalous behaviors, prioritize hunts, and understand why proactive hunting fills gaps that detectors miss.