Scenario

You are a Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) analyst tasked with investigating a ransomware attack that has affected a company's system. The attack has resulted in file encryption, and the attackers are demanding payment for the decryption of the affected files. You have been given a memory dump of the affected system to analyze and provide answers to specific questions related to the attack.

https://app.letsdefend.io/challenge/lockbit


1- Can you determine the date and time that the device was infected with the malware? (UTC, format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss)

2023-04-13 10:06:45

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first we determine which profile to use with vol.py -f Lockbit.vmem imageinfo

then we use pstree plugin to list all processes and find the malicious one after using pstree we can see mal.exe doesn’t even try to hide itself

2- What is the name of the ransomware family responsible for the attack?

lockbit

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