(Tool) FireShark: Aid for web incident response

The tool of the day is FireShark, a free web analysis tool.  This is great to have in your toolbox for IR.  FireShark will generate a mind map of a given webpage — think of it being a graphical representation of NoScript i.e. the map for Amazon.com would show quantcast.com, google-analytics.com, facebook.com, and twitter.com connected because it loads javascript and or images from those pages.  The tool consists of a Firefox plugin with some additional perl scripts.

Now, if the authors would add geolocation to the maps we could quickly see if a site is pulling from a server in Russia or China would could be an obvious sign of infection….

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