M4cCrypt0
M4cCrypt0

// hack. learn. repeat. — notes, writeups and lab journal on the road to freelance security work.

August 2026

Fileless WMI Persistence: Hunting a Hijacked CIM Class (TryHackMe: After Hours

Turned out to be a fileless persistence chain: a legit-looking WMI class carrying a Deflate-compressed .NET loader as a "static property", fired by an EventFilter / CommandLineEventConsumer pair with…

July 2026

DFIR Cheatsheet — Windows Registry & Filesystem Artifacts

Reference card for Windows forensics: where to find evidence of execution, staging and exfiltration. Based on the classic "kill chain" order: Execution → Persistence → Access → Collection → Exfiltration.

June 2026

Incident response runbook

The six IR phases, what to do (and not do) in the first hour, and which log sources to check first.