SharpHide - Tool To Create Hidden Registry Keys

Just a nice persistence trick to confuse DFIR investigation. Uses NtSetValueKey native API to create a hidden null terminated registry key. This works by adding a null byte in front of the UNICODESTRING key valuename. More info about this technique can be found in the following whitepaper:...

RdpThief - Extracting Clear Text Passwords From Mstsc.Exe Using API Hooking

RdpThief by itself is a standalone DLL that when injected in the mstsc.exe process, will perform API hooking, extract the clear-text credentials and save them to a file. An aggressor script accompanies it, which is responsible for managing the state, monitoring for new processes and injecting the...

Exploit for CVE-2018-2894

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Threat Actor Impersonates USPS to Deliver Backdoor Malware

A new threat actor has been found impersonating the U.S. Postal Service USPS and other government agencies to deliver and install backdoor malware to various organizations in Germany, Italy and the United States, according to new research. The campaigns, which researchers from cybersecurity firm...

A week in security (September 30 – October 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, Malwarebytes renewed its pledge to fight stalkerware for National Cybersecurity Awareness NCSA and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We also looked into what security orchestration is and reported about partnering with security firm, HYAS, to determine the...

Magecart Group 4: A link with Cobalt Group?

Note: This blog post is a collaboration between the Malwarebytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence teams. Magecart is a term that has become a household name, and it refers to the theft of credit card data via online stores. The most common scenario is for criminals to compromise e-commerce sites by...

A week in security (September 9 – 15)

Last week on the Labs blog, we looked at free VPN offerings, how malware can hinder vital emergency services, and explored how the Heartbleed vulnerability is still causing problems. We also talked about a large FTC settlement involving Google, and how to keep an eye out for leaky AWS buckets...

Library-Themed University Phishing Attack Expands to Massive Scale

Indicating a campaign of massive scale, at least 20 new phishing domains targeting more than 60 universities in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States have cropped up, bent on lifting credentials from students heading back to school. The domains are...

SharPersist: Windows Persistence Toolkit in C#

Background PowerShell has been used by the offensive community for several years now but recent advances in the defensive security industry are causing offensive toolkits to migrate from PowerShell to reflective C to evade modern security products. Some of these advancements include Script Block...

Securing your red team kit with Uncomplicated Firewall

After reading Identifying Cobalt Strike team servers in the wild I started thinking, why are people not firewalling off their kit? If you read the above post and I suggest you do, you will see under section “Scanning and Results” that the research concluded that 7718 unique Cobalt Strike CS team...

Source Code for CARBANAK Banking Malware Found On VirusTotal

Security researchers have discovered the full source code of the Carbanak malware—yes, this time it's for real. Carbanak—sometimes referred as FIN7, Anunak or Cobalt—is one of the most full-featured, dangerous malware that belongs to an APT-style cybercriminal group involved in several attacks...

Cobalt Strike. Walkthrough for Red Teamers

What is Cobalt Strike? Raphael Mudge is the creator of Cobalt Strike CS, around 2010 he released a tool titled Armitage, which is described by wikipedia as a graphical cyber-attack management for the Metasploit Project, to put this more bluntly, Armitage is a gui that allows you to easily navigat...

Pick-Six: Intercepting a FIN6 Intrusion, an Actor Recently Tied to Ryuk and LockerGoga Ransomware

Summary Recently, FireEye Managed Defense detected and responded to a FIN6 intrusion at a customer within the engineering industry, which seemed out of character due to FIN6’s historical targeting of payment card data. The intent of the intrusion was initially unclear because the customer did not...

Downloads Resources over HTTP in cobalt-cli

Affected versions of cobalt-cli insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

GHSA-RWVJ-JGC4-FQQ5 Downloads Resources over HTTP in cobalt-cli

Affected versions of cobalt-cli insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

RedELK - Easy Deployable Tool For Red Teams Used For Tracking And Alarming About Blue Team Activities As Well As Better Usability In Long Term Operations

Red Team's SIEM - easy deployable tool for Red Teams used for tracking and alarming about Blue Team activities as well as better usability for the Red Team in long term operations. Initial public release at BruCON 2018: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjtftdPts4g Presentation slides:...

Cobalt Group Pushes Revamped ThreadKit Malware

Despite the high profile arrest earlier this year of the Cobalt Group ringleader, the threat actors behind the hacking collective are slowly ramping up their malicious behavior. In a new analysis of the threat group, known for its widespread attacks against banks in Eastern Europe over the past...

Red Team’s SIEM: RedELK

Red Team’s SIEM – easy deployable tool for Red Teams used for tracking and alarming about Blue Team activities as well as better usability for the Red Team in long term operations. When performing multi-month, multi-C2teamserver and multi-scenario red team operations, you are working with an...

APT29 Re-Emerges After 2 Years with Widespread Espionage Campaign

A phishing campaign bent on espionage, believed to be launched by the nation-state threat group known as APT29, is targeting high-value targets across the think-tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government and defense contracting sector...

Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign

Introduction FireEye devices detected intrusion attempts against multiple industries, including think tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government, and defense contracting. The attempts involved a phishing email appearing to be from the...