Haystack

Haystack Badge
Difficulty
Difficulty Basic
Score
Score 2000
Tags
Completions
Completions 7
Rating

NorthLedger Financial Services has contacted your team after detecting suspicious outbound traffic from its corporate network. The SOC believes a user may have executed a malicious recruitment or vendor-portal file. You have been given a PCAP from the relevant network segment. Your task is to determine whether the organisation is compromised, identify the affected host, extract indicators and explain the likely attacker behaviour.

Defensive Entry Level


Activity

Lab Released 2026-05-29 12:55:00

rayaseiren got 1st blood

2026-06-02 18:14:12

noother got 2nd blood

2026-06-10 00:28:55

Fhyyto got 3rd blood

2026-06-11 19:30:42

R00ts3c got 4th blood

2026-06-17 11:07:08

Diddy got 5th blood

2026-06-22 11:16:42