CCFR-201 CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Responder Questions and Answers

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, the Detections page allows you to view and manage detections generated by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform2. You can use various filters to narrow down the detections based on criteria such as severity, CrowdScore, time, tactic, technique, etc2. However, there is no filter for triggering file, which is the file that caused the detection2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, the allowlist feature allows you to exclude files or directories from being scanned or blocked by CrowdStrike’s machine learning engine or indicators of attack (IOAs)2. This can reduce false positives and improve performance2. When you allowlist a hash, you are allowing that file to execute on any host that belongs to your organization’s CID (customer ID)2. The option to indicate that a hash is allowlisted is "Allow"2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, detection data is stored in the CrowdStrike Cloud for 90 days before purging begins2. This means that you can access and view detections from the past 90 days using the Falcon platform or API2. If you want to retain detection data for longer than 90 days, you can use FDR to replicate it to your own storage system2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Host Timeline tool allows you to view all events recorded by the sensor for a given host in a chronological order1. The events include process executions, file writes, registry modifications, network connections, user logins, etc1. You can use various filters to narrow down the events based on criteria such as event type, timestamp range, file name, registry key, network destination, etc1. However, there is no filter for severity, user name, or detection ID, as these are not attributes of the events1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Process Timeline tool allows you to view all cloudable events associated with a given process, such as process creation, network connections, file writes, registry modifications, etc2. The tool requires two parameters: aid (agent ID) and TargetProcessId_decimal (the decimal value of the process ID)2. These fields can be obtained from any event that involves the process, such as a FileOpenInfo event, which contains information about a file being opened by a process2.

According to the [CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide], when you open the full detection details from a detection alert or dashboard item, you are taken to a page where you can view detailed information about the detection, such as detection ID, severity, tactic, technique, description, etc. You can also view the events generated by the processes involved in the detection in different ways, such as process tree, process timeline, or process activity. The process tree view is also known as the process explorer, which provides a graphical representation of the process hierarchy and activity. You can view the processes and process relationships by expanding or collapsing nodes in the tree. You can also see the event types and timestamps for each process.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the IP Search tool allows you to search for an IP address and view a summary of information from Falcon events that contain that IP address1. The summary includes the hostname, sensor ID, OS, country, city, ISP, ASN, geolocation, process name, command line, and organizational unit of the host that communicated with that IP address1. This is an advantage of using the IP Search tool because it provides host, process, and organizational unit data without the need to write a query1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, IOA exclusions allow you to exclude files or directories from being detected or blocked by CrowdStrike’s indicators of attack (IOAs), which are behavioral rules that identify malicious activities1. This can reduce false positives and improve performance1. When you configure and apply an IOA exclusion, the impact is that the associated detection will be suppressed and theassociated process would have been allowed to run1. This means that you will not see any alerts or events related to that IOA in the console1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Process Activity View allows you to view all events generated by a process involved in a detection in a rows-and-columns style view1. This can be helpful because it creates a consolidated view of all detection events for that process that can be exported for further analysis1. You can also sort, filter, and pivot on the events by various fields, such as event type, timestamp, file name, registry key, network destination, etc1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, pivoting to an Event Search from a detection takes you to the raw Insight event data and provides you with a number of Event Actions1. Insight events are low-level events that are generated by the sensor for various activities, such as process executions, file writes, registry modifications, network connections, etc1. You can view these events in a table format and use various filters and fields to narrow down the results1. You can also select one or more events and perform various actions, such as show a process timeline, show a host timeline, show associated event data, show a +/- 10-minute window of events, etc1. These actions can help you investigate and analyze events more efficiently and effectively1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Host Search allows you to search for hosts based on various criteria, such as hostname, IP address, OS, etc1. The results are displayed in an organized view by type, such as detections, incidents, processes, network connections, etc1. The Host Timeline allows you to view all events recorded by the sensor for a given host in a chronological order1. The events include process executions, file writes, registry modifications, network connections, user logins, etc1.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon® Data Replicator (FDR) Add-on for Splunk Guide, the allowlist feature allows you to exclude files or directories from being scanned or blocked by CrowdStrike’s machine learning engine or indicators of attack (IOAs)2. This can reduce false positives and improve performance2. When you allowlist a hash, you are allowing that file to execute on any host that belongs to your organization’s CID (customer ID)2. This does not affect other Falcon customers or hosts outside your CID2.

According to the CrowdStrike Falcon Devices Add-on for Splunk Installation and Configuration Guide v3.1.5+, the Full Detection Details tool allows you to view detailed information about a detection, such as detection ID, severity, tactic, technique, description, etc1. You can also view the events generated by the processes involved in the detection in different ways, such as process tree, process timeline, or process activity1. The process activity view provides a rows-and-columns style view of the events, such as DNS requests, registry operations, network operations, etc1. You can also export this view to a CSV file for further analysis1.

According to the [CrowdStrike website], the Discover page is where you can search for and analyze various types of indicators of compromise (IOCs), such as hashes, IP addresses, or domains that are associated with malicious activities. You can use various tools, such as Hash Executions, IP Addresses, Remote or Network Logon Activity, etc., to perform different types of searches and view the results in different ways. If you want to search for any activity related to an IP address that was compromised by a third-party vendor, you can use the IP Addresses tool to do so. You can input the IP address and see a summary of information from Falcon events that contain that IP address, such as hostname, sensor ID, OS, country, city, ISP, ASN, geolocation, process name, command line, and organizational unit of the host that communicated with that IP address.

According to the [MITRE ATT&CK website], MITRE ATT&CK is a knowledge base of adversary behaviors and techniques based on real-world observations. The knowledge base is organized into tactics and techniques, where tactics are the high-level goals of an adversary, such as initial access, persistence, lateral movement, etc., and techniques are the specific ways an adversary can achieve those goals, such as phishing, credential dumping, remote file copy, etc. Defense Evasion is one of the tactics defined by MITRE ATT&CK, which covers actions that adversaries take to avoid detection or prevent security controls from blocking their activities. Eternal Blue, Emotet, and Phishing are examples of techniques, not tactics.