GitHub - e2w5/DetectionLabRevamped: Automate the creation of a lab environment complete with security tooling and logging best practices

This is a fork of the original detection lab with new virtual machines on virtual box.

Updates

Updated with Virtual Box so there is no software license cost.
The logger virtual machine was upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 24.04.
All logger servers were updated to the latest available software versions.
The Domain Controller (DC) virtual machine was upgraded from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022.
The Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) virtual machine was upgraded from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2022.
The Workstation virtual machine was migrated from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
The subnet configuration was changed from 192.168.56.X to 192.168.57.X.
Tested Only with Virtual Box 7.1.12

Requirements:

55GB+ of free disk space
16GB+ of RAM
Vagrant 2.2.2 or newer
Virtualbox

TLDR; Installation

download vagrant and install

https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/downloads

install packer

https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/install

Install the Vagrant-Reload plugin by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-reload

disable all network interfaces of unused hypervisor (vmareware, the one you dont use)

clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/e2w5/DetectionLabRevamped.git
cd DetectionLabRevamped/Vagrant

RUN AS ADMIN

.\prepare.ps1

DO NOT RUN AS ADMIN

vagrant up

#or one by one

vagrant up logger
vagrant up dc
vagrant up wef
vagrant up win11

.\post_build_checks.ps1

Tips

disable network adapters for the hypervisor you do NOT use, for example is installing with vmware than disable virtualbox network cards (if exists)
Install as non privileged user

Original Detection Lab Readme

As of 2023-01-01, DetectionLab is no longer being actively maintained

DetectionLab is tested weekly on Saturdays via a scheduled CircleCI workflow to ensure that builds are passing.

Purpose

This lab has been designed with defenders in mind. Its primary purpose is to allow the user to quickly build a Windows domain that comes pre-loaded with security tooling and some best practices when it comes to system logging configurations. It can easily be modified to fit most needs or expanded to include additional hosts.

Read more about Detection Lab on Medium here: https://medium.com/@clong/introducing-detection-lab-61db34bed6ae

NOTE: This lab has not been hardened in any way and runs with default vagrant credentials. Please do not connect or bridge it to any networks you care about. This lab is deliberately designed to be insecure; the primary purpose of it is to provide visibility and introspection into each host.

Primary Lab Features:

Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/advanced-threat-analytics) is installed on the WEF machine, with the lightweight ATA gateway installed on the DC
A Splunk forwarder is pre-installed and all indexes are pre-created. Technology add-ons are also preconfigured.
A custom Windows auditing configuration is set via GPO to include command line process auditing and additional OS-level logging
Palantir's Windows Event Forwarding subscriptions and custom channels are implemented
Powershell transcript logging is enabled. All logs are saved to \\wef\pslogs
osquery comes installed on each host and is pre-configured to connect to a Fleet server via TLS. Fleet is preconfigured with the configuration from Palantir's osquery Configuration
Sysmon is installed and configured using Olaf Hartong's open-sourced Sysmon configuration
All autostart items are logged to Windows Event Logs via AutorunsToWinEventLog
Zeek and Suricata are pre-configured to monitor and alert on network traffic
Apache Guacamole is installed to easily access all hosts from your local browser

Building Detection Lab

When preparing to build DetectionLab locally, be sure to use the prepare.[sh|ps1] scripts inside of the Vagrant folder to ensure your system passes the prerequisite checks for building DetectionLab.

DetectionLab Documentation

The primary documentation site is located at https://detectionlab.network

Contributing

Please do all of your development in a feature branch on your own fork of DetectionLab. Contribution guidelines can be found here: CONTRIBUTING.md

In the Media

Credits/Resources

A sizable percentage of this code was borrowed and adapted from Stefan Scherer's packer-windows and adfs2 Github repos. A huge thanks to him for building the foundation that allowed me to design this lab environment.

Acknowledgements

DetectionLab Sponsors

Last updated: 01/01/2023

I would like to extend thanks to everyone who sponsored DetectionLab over the past few years. DetectionLab is no longer actively being maintained or developed.