Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks

Obtaining user operating system OS credentials from a targeted device is among threat actors’ primary goals when launching attacks because these credentials serve as a gateway to various objectives they can achieve in their target organization’s environment, such as lateral movement. One techniqu...

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DuplicateDump - Dumping LSASS With A Duplicated Handle From Custom LSA Plugin

DuplicateDump is a fork of MirrorDump with following modifications: DInovke implementation LSA plugin DLL written in C++ which could be clean up after dumping LSASS. MirrorDump compile LSA plugin as .NET assembly which would not be unloaded by LSASS process. That's why MirrorDump failed to delete...

Nanodump - A Crappy LSASS Dumper With No ASCII Art

A flexible tool that creates a minidump of the LSASS process. 1. Features It uses syscalls with SysWhispers2 for most operations. Syscalls are called from an ntdll address to bypass some syscall detections. It sets the syscall callback hook to NULL. Windows APIs are called using dynamic invoke...

EDRSandblast - Tool That Weaponize A Vulnerable Signed Driver To Bypass EDR Detections And LSASS Protections

EDRSandBlast is a tool written in C that weaponize a vulnerable signed driver to bypass EDR detections Kernel callbacks and ETW TI provider and LSASS protections. Multiple userland unhooking techniques are also implemented to evade userland monitoring. As of release, combination of userland...

CVE-2022-24487

Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability...

CVE-2022-24487: Undefined Security Weakness

Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability...

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APT ‘Aquatic Panda’ Targets Universities with Log4Shell Exploit Tools

Cyber criminals, under the moniker Aquatic Panda, are the latest advanced persistent threat group APT to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability. Researchers from CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch recently disrupted the threat actors using Log4Shell exploit tools on a vulnerable VMware installation during...

HandleKatz - PIC Lsass Dumper Using Cloned Handles

This tool was implemented as part of our Brucon2021 conference talk and demonstrates the usage of cloned handles to Lsass in order to create an obfuscated memory dump of the same. It compiles down to an executable living fully in its text segment. Thus, the extracted .text segment of the PE file ...

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SUPERNOVA malware discovered on SolarWinds Orion server

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has reported finding the SUPERNOVA web shell collecting credentials on a SolarWinds Orion server. These observations were made during an incident response to an Advanced Persistent Threat APT actor’s year-long compromise of an enterprise...

Dumping LSASS in memory undetected using MirrorDump

Introduction As I am sure some of you are aware from the occasional ramblings and screenshots on twitter, I am a big fan of .NET based offensive tooling. Not because it’s trendy or cool, but because of the development speed and ease of testing and debugging in comparison to C/C++. A month or so a...

WdToggle - A Beacon Object File (BOF) For Cobalt Strike Which Uses Direct System Calls To Enable WDigest Credential Caching

A Proof of Concept Cobalt Strike Beacon Object File which uses direct system calls to enable WDigest credential caching and circumvent Credential Guard if enabled. Additional guidance can be found in this blog post: https://outflank.nl/blog/?p=1592 Background This PoC code is based on the followi...

EvtMute - Apply A Filter To The Events Being Reported By Windows Event Logging

This is a tool that allows you to offensively use YARA to apply a filter to the events being reported by windows event logging. Usage Grap the latest verison from here. EvtMuteHook.dll contains the core functionality, once it is injected it will apply a temporary filter which will allow all event...

CVE-2020-1509

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause an elevation of privilege on the targ...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause an elevation of privilege on the targ...

CVE-2020-1509

CVE-2020-1509 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) on Windows. An authenticated attacker could exploit a specially crafted authentication request to elevate privileges on the target system. The issue is addressed by a security update...

CVE-2020-1509: Undefined Security Weakness

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS when an authenticated attacker sends a specially crafted authentication request. A remote attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause an elevation of privilege on the targ...