# Skills Assessment

### Scenario

This skills assessment section builds upon the progress made in the `Intrusion Detection With Splunk (Real-world Scenario)` section. Our objective is to identify any missing components of the attack chain and trace the malicious process responsible for initiating the infection.

### Practical Exercises

1\) Navigate to http\://\[Target IP]:8000, open the "Search & Reporting" application, and find through SPL searches against all data the process that created remote threads in rundll32.exe. Answer format: \_.exe

```
index="main" sourcetype="WinEventLog:Sysmon" EventCode=8 TargetImage=*rundll32.exe
| stats count by SourceImage, TargetImage
```

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Answer:  randomfile.exe

2\) Navigate to http\://\[Target IP]:8000, open the "Search & Reporting" application, and find through SPL searches against all data the process that started the infection. Answer format: \_.exe

Answer:  rundll32.exe


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