A comprehensive guide on threat hunting for persistence with osquery

The guide by Alessandro Brofferio introduces the integration of the Osquery Manager with Elastic Agent, enhancing the capabilities of threat hunting for persistence on Windows endpoints. Osquery is an open-source tool that treats operating systems like relational databases, allowing users to run SQL-like queries for efficient monitoring and data collection. The integration with Elastic Agent simplifies the deployment and management of osquery across multiple endpoints, enabling real-time and scheduled queries through Kibana for tasks like security vulnerability detection and compliance monitoring. It includes detailed instructions on configuring the Elastic Agent and Osquery Manager to detect advanced persistence techniques, such as Scheduled Tasks and Registry Run Keys, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The guide also explores the use of Pack configurations for periodic query execution and highlights the potential of combining osquery with Elastic Security to create alerts based on suspicious patterns detected in query results. Additionally, readers are encouraged to try a free trial of Elastic to explore these capabilities firsthand.