Mike Small on Instagram: "Before you execute anything, you should already know the expected outcome. What process will spawn? What network activity should occur? Which telemetry sources should light up? What events should confirm success or failure? Example mindset: If I run this command, I expect a PowerShell process to start. That process should make a network connection. I should see Sysmon Event ID 3. I should see a 4104 script block log. If I do not see those, something is wrong with my ass

Mike Small on Instagram: "We watched the script run. Then we watched it decrypt itself. Then we saw the exact command it executed. Nothing fancy. No magic. Just visibility. Even when the script was wrapped and encoded, PowerShell script block logging did the hard work for us. It decoded the content. Logged the decrypted version. And showed the exact command that ran. This is the part a lot of people miss. Script block logging does not just say “PowerShell ran.” It shows you what actually happene