Investigation Scenario 🔎 A user received this SMS: “UPS: Package Delivery Failed. Update your address.” Browser history shows a visit to a fake UPS site, followed by a POST request to /api/verify. What do you look for to investigate whether an incident occurred? (Your choice on phone OS) #InvestigationPath #DFIR #SOC

Successful analysts must learn to distinguish between two thoughts: “This investigation is difficult.” “This investigation is going nowhere.” The first describes the work. The second is a judgment about its prospects. Research suggests that when we interpret difficulty as a sign of importance, we’re more likely to persist. When we interpret it as a sign of impossibility, we’re more likely to disengage. A difficult investigation isn’t necessarily a dead end. Sometimes the difficulty is a signal that the problem deserves more attention, not less. How you interpret difficulty shapes how you invest our time and effort.

Investigation Scenario 🔎 An analyst examining Chrome’s History database discovers a redirect leading from a legitimate document-sharing service to an unfamiliar domain that open source intelligence identifies as being associated with credential phishing. What do you look for to investigate whether an incident occurred? #InvestigationPath #DFIR #SOC