Incident › Module 3 › Lesson 4
Lab — Playbooks
Pack IR team, playbook anatomy, and runbook hygiene cards — playbooks file from $IR_LAB only.
Visual · t34_playbooks_lab
Lab: playbooks pack. $IR_LAB only. Original Cyberlium.
Opening
Playbooks pack merges team to anatomy to runbook hygiene — paperwork before detection module.
Lessons 3-1–3-3 named IR team, playbook anatomy, and runbook hygiene. This lab merges three sections into one $IR_LAB playbooks artifact with M1 ethics and M2 planning cross-references. No ransomware payloads or stranger-network steps — playbook paperwork only. Next: Quiz — Team and Playbooks.
1. Lab contract: playbooks pack
Create $HOME/cyberlium-lab/t34-m03-l04-playbooks-lab.txt merging IR team, playbook anatomy, and runbook hygiene sections with $IR_LAB fictional phishing scenario and M1/M2 cross-references.
Optional: link one runbook step to a playbook phase from anatomy outline.
Command guide
Try these commands — Lab contract: playbooks pack
═══ LINUX / BASH (SOC Analyst Triage) ═══
Filter system logs for security-relevant warnings and errors
Command — copy this
journalctl -p 3 -xb --no-pager | head -20
Search for suspicious persistent cron entries or service changes
Command — copy this
ls -lat /etc/cron.* /etc/systemd/system/ | head -15
═══ WINDOWS POWERSHELL ═══ Triage recent system service installations (Event 7045)
Command — copy this
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName='System';Id=7045} -MaxEvents 5 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Format-Table TimeCreated, Message -WrapCheck open listening network connections with process owners
Command — copy this
Get-NetTCPConnection -State Listen | Select-Object LocalAddress, LocalPort, OwningProcess | Sort-Object LocalPort
Primary tools to practice this lesson: grep, python3. Reference sites: NIST SP 800-61 (https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-61/rev-2/final); CISA (https://www.cisa.gov/stopransomware); SANS IR (https://www.sans.org/for-organizations/incident-response/). Run every command in the box — install first, then the usage lines — only on YOUR lab / program scope.
2. Cross-check ethics
Grep for ransomware payload refs, stranger-network isolation commands, live victim credentials — remove. Confirm all scenarios are $IR_LAB fictional.
Runbook steps use tool placeholders — no production secrets.
3. Lock the proof
chmod 600 on the pack. Quiz next — then Detection Intake.
Playbook literacy feeds detection and analysis lessons in M4.
4. What you ship: playbooks pack for $IR_LAB
Merged team, anatomy, runbook sections. $IR_LAB named. NO stranger IR. chmod 600.
5. What you record before the next lesson
Date. Playbooks pack path. $IR_LAB named. File t34-m03-l04-playbooks-lab.txt chmod 600.
6. Wrong vs right: stranger networks vs YOUR IR tabletop
Worked failure — same MSF word, opposite target. Right never needs a café Wi-Fi or classmate laptop.
Wrong
Include ransomware deployment steps. Skip runbook hygiene section.
Right
Write YOUR playbooks pack for $IR_LAB. chmod 600. Next: Quiz — Team and Playbooks.
Mission: freeze YOUR playbooks pack on disk
1) Merge M3 literacy sections. 2) Confirm zero payload or stranger-network refs. 3) Link M1/M2 cross-refs. 4) chmod 600.
Stuck? Ask Cyberlium AI Mentor
One governed playbooks pack beats ten stale wiki copy-pastes.
Knowledge Check
APPLY: This lab requires:
Multiple choice
Knowledge Check
APPLY: True or False: Playbooks pack must use fictional org and tool placeholders.
True or False
Knowledge Check
APPLY: Playbooks pack supports:
Multiple choice