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A Powershell incident response framework
https://github.com/davehull/Kansa

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Kansa

=====



A modular incident response framework in Powershell. It's been tested in PSv2 / .NET 2 and

later and works mostly without issue.



But really, upgrade to PSv3 or later. Be happy.



More info:  

http://trustedsignal.blogspot.com/search/label/Kansa  

http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/18/kansa-a-powershell-based-incident-response-framework/  



## What does it do?

It uses Powershell Remoting to run user contributed, ahem, user contri-  

buted modules across hosts in an enterprise to collect data for use  

during incident response, breach hunts, or for building an environmental  

baseline.



## How do you use it?

Here's a very simple command line example you can run on your own local  

host.  



1.  After downloading the project and unzipping it, you'll likely need  

to "unblock" the ps1 files. The easiest way to do this if you're using  

Powershell v3 or later is to cd to the directory where Kansa resides  

and do:  

```Powershell

ls -r *.ps1 | Unblock-File

```

1. Ensure that you check your execution policies with PowerShell. Check [Using the Set-ExecutionPolicy Cmdlet](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176961.aspx) for information on how to do so within your environment.  

```

Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned | RemoteSigned | Unrestricted

```

1. If you're not running PS v3 or later, [Sysinternal's Streams utility](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/streams.aspx) can  

be used to remove the alternate data streams that Powershell uses to  

determine if files came from the Internet. Once you've removed those  

ADSes, you'll be able to run the scripts without issue.  

```

c:\ streams -sd 

```



I've not run into any issues running the downloaded scripts via Windows  

Remote Management / Powershell Remoting through Kansa, so you shouldn't  

have to do anything if you want to run the scripts via remoting.  



2.  Open an elevated Powershell Prompt (Right-click Run As Administrator)  



3.  At the command prompt, enter:

```Powershell

.\kansa.ps1 -Target $env:COMPUTERNAME -ModulePath .\Modules -Verbose  

```

The script should start collecting data or you may see an error about  

not having Windows Remote Management enabled. If so, do a little  

searching online, it's easy to turn on. Turn it on and try again. When  

it finishes running, you'll have a new Output_timestamp subdirectory,  

with subdirectories for data collected by each module. You can cd into  

those subdirectories and checkout the data. There are some analysis  

scripts in the Analysis directory, but many of those won't make sense  

on a collection of data from a single host. Kansa was written for  

collection and analysis of data from dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens  

of thousands of systems.  



## Running Modules Standalone

Kansa modules can be run as standalone utilities outside of the Kansa  

framework. Why might you want to do this? Consider netstat -naob, the  

output of the command line utility is ugly and doesn't easily lend  

itself to analysis. Running  

```Powershell

Modules\Net\Get-Netstat.ps1

```

as a standalone script will call netstat -naob, but it will return  

Powershell objects in an easy to read, easy to analyze format. You can  

easily convert its output to CSV, TSV or XML using normal Powershell  

cmdlets. Here's an example:  

```Powershell

.\Get-Netstat.ps1 | ConvertTo-CSV -Delimiter "`t" -NoTypeInformation | % { $_ -replace "`"" } | Set-Content netstat.tsv

```

the result of the above will be a file called netstat.tsv containing  

unquoted, tab separate values for netstat -naob's ouput.



## Caveats:

Powershell relies on the Windows API. Your adversary may use subterfuge.*



* Collectors can be written to bypass the Windows API as well.  

Get-RekallPslist.ps1 for example.