
Sinkholing C2 Traffic
Part of Network Security Topic: Networking
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What you'll do
You have a known C2 Domain that has infected your network.
- You will create a DNS record and sinkhole all requests to this domain.
- This will allow your analysts to identify which machines are in your environment and also protect your network by redirecting systems that attempt to contact this domain.
- ⏱ About 60 minutes
Roadmaps that use this lab
- Security Engineer — career path — step 4: Network security engineering
- Network Security Engineer — career path — step 4: Firewalls, IDS and traffic analysis

