Most Akira write-ups focus on the ransom note or the encryption routine. By the time those show up the interesting forensic work is over. The questions that matter to defenders sit earlier. How did they get in. When did they get domain admin. What did they touch before the binary fired. Those answers live in the days before impact. They sit in two log sources that almost never get joined. The perimeter firewall and the Windows event channel.
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Article Link: Reconstructing an Akira Ransomware Kill Chain from Perimeter and Endpoint Logs