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TryHackMe14 answered prompts

Advanced ELK Queries TryHackMe walkthrough with 14 answered prompts.

Prompts and answers

  • How do you escape the text "password:Me&Try=Hack!" (Not including the double quotes)
    password:Me\&Try\=Hack!
  • Using wildcards, what will your query be if you want to search for all documents that contain the words "hacking" and "hack" in the "activity" field?
    activity:hack*
  • Task 3 - Q1 - How many incidents exist where the affected file is "marketing_strategy_2023_07_23.pptx"?
    4
  • How many incidents exist where the affected files in file servers are titled "marketing_strategy"?
    135
  • There is a true positive alert on a webserver where the admin and it users were logged on. What is the name of the webserver?
    web-server-77
  • How many "Data Leak" incidents have a severity level of 9 and up?
    52
  • How many incidents before December 1st, 2022 has AJohnston investigated where the affected system is either an Email or Web server?
    63
  • From the incident IDs 1 to 500, what is the email address of the SOC Analyst that left a comment on an incident that the data leak on file-server-65 is a false positive?
    jlim@cybert.com
  • Including the misspellings, how many incidents has JLim handled where he misspelt the word “true”?
    110
  • How many incidents has JLim handled where he misspelt the word “negative”?
    4
  • How many incidents are there when you want to look for the words "data leak" and "true negative" in the comments that are at least 3 words in between them?
    33
  • How many incidents has AJohnston investigated that have the words "detected" and "negative" in the comments that are two words apart?
    40
  • How many incidents are there where a "client_list" file was affected by ransomware?
    70
  • What is the name of the affected system at the earliest incident date that EVenis investigated with a filename containing the word "project"?
    file-server-78