CyberChef for Security Analysts | Applied Network Defense

You can use CyberChef to answer the data questions you have, whether you're a forensic analyst, incident responder, threat hunter, or reverse engineer. In this class, you'll get hands-on experience in data manipulation, deobfuscation, and other techniques using the best tool for the job.

The most useful skill a security analyst possesses is the ability to manipulate data and use it to answer questions.

Whether you're looking at obfuscated javascript, a suspicious binary, or simply a threat intelligence report. the ability to deobfuscate, transform, or simply extract data from whatever form it's in differentiates skilled analysts from everyone else.

But, there are so many data obfuscation methods and ways to change how systems present information that it's easy to feel like you need a degree in computer science or years of programming experience to get anywhere. There are few worse feelings than staring at something you know is probably malicious while getting lost in page after page of Stack Overflow results without making progress.

I always thought there needed to be a way to help security analysts like me become better at manipulating security data. When I discovered CyberChef, I knew I found it.

CyberChef is the closest thing defenders have to a Swiss Army Knife.

CyberChef is a free, open-source web application designed for carrying out common data manipulation techniques in a structured, systematic, repeatable way. This includes operations like simple decoding, hash calculation, content extraction, indicator format parsing, and more. Each of these things is essential to blue teamers in any role.




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