HardThreat Hunting

Hunt the Beacon

380 pointsEst. 1h 10m3,980 solved00:00 elapsed

Mission Briefing

Query a live SIEM dataset to identify a C2 beaconing pattern hidden among millions of benign log events.

Objectives

  • Query logs for periodic outbound connections
  • Identify the beaconing host
  • Correlate with process execution logs
  • Write up the incident timeline

Terminal Simulation

root@infoenc-range: ~
Infoenc Range v2.4 — target session established
Target: 10.10.14.22 | Type 'help' for available commands
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Submit Flag

Hint: try cat flag.txt in the terminal above.

Hints

Skills Practiced

SIEMThreat HuntingLog Analysis

Scoreboard

Base points380
Hint penalty-0
Net score380