CDSA
HackTheBox

HTB Certified Defensive Security Analyst

Intermediate Practical SOC/DFIR exam Pass: Passing report $210

Defensive security — log analysis, threat hunting, incident response, DFIR.

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IssuerHackTheBox
FormatPractical SOC/DFIR exam
Duration7 days
Pass ScorePassing report
Full Syllabus
Security Monitoring & SIEM 20%
Splunk and Elastic Stack configuration, SPL/KQL queries, alert tuning, dashboards
Log Analysis 15%
Windows Event Logs (Sysmon, Security, System), Linux syslog, Apache/Nginx, DNS logs
Incident Response 20%
IR lifecycle, containment/eradication/recovery, IOC extraction, timeline analysis
Threat Hunting 15%
Hypothesis-driven hunting, behavioral detection, MITRE ATT&CK mapping
Digital Forensics 15%
Memory forensics (Volatility), disk forensics, artifact analysis, chain of custody
Malware Triage 10%
Static and dynamic analysis basics, YARA rules, sandbox analysis, IOC extraction
Network Traffic Analysis 5%
Wireshark/Zeek/Suricata, protocol anomaly detection, C2 traffic patterns