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Bitdefender EDR Practice Guide

Advanced20 min read
BitdefenderEDRThreat Hunting

Practice guide for security analysts: Using Bitdefender EDR for incident investigation and threat hunting.

What is Bitdefender EDR?

Detect
Recognition
Investigate
Analysis
Respond
Reaction

1. EDR Telemetry

Captured Events

  • • Process creation & termination
  • • File operations
  • • Registry changes
  • • Network connections
  • • PowerShell executions
  • • DLL loads

Retention

  • • Standard: 30 days
  • • Extended: Up to 90 days
  • • Incidents: Unlimited

2. Investigation Workflow

1

Triage

Assess severity, rule out false positives

2

Analysis

Analyze attack chain, find root cause

3

Response

Containment, remediation, recovery

3. Live Search Queries

Suspicious PowerShell

process_name:powershell.exe AND (command_line:*-enc* OR command_line:*downloadstring*)

Credential Access

process_name:mimikatz* OR file_path:*\\lsass*

Suspicious Network

network_connection:outbound AND (destination_port:4444 OR destination_port:1337)

4. Response Actions

Isolate Endpoint

Disconnects from network, only GZ communication active

Kill Process

Terminates suspicious process immediately

Collect Evidence

Gather memory dump, event logs

Remote Shell

Secure remote command line

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