Honeybits - A Simple Tool Designed To Enhance The Effectiveness Of Your Traps By Spreading Breadcrumbs & Honeytokens Across Your Systems

A simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs & honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots. Author: Adel "0x4D31" Karimi. Background The problem with the traditional implementation of honeypot...

Establishing a Baseline for Remote Desktop Protocol

For IT staff and Windows power users, Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a beneficial tool that allows for the interactive.aspx use or administration of a remote Windows system. However, Mandiant consultants have also observed threat actors using RDP, with compromised doma...

Automated Bots Growing Tool For Hackers

SAN FRANCISCO – The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found. A honeypot experiment, detailed by Cybereason at this year’s RSA Conference, showed the commoditization of using bots to perform low-level tasks. The honeyp...

Nagios XI Enumeration

NagiosXI may store credentials of the hosts it monitors. This module extracts these credentials, creating opportunities for lateral movement. Module Options msf use post/linux/gather/enum/nagiosxi msf undefinednagiosxi show actions ...actions... msf undefinednagiosxi set ACTION msf...

DCOM Exec

A similar approach to psexec but executing commands through DCOM. You can select different objects to be used to execute the commands. Module Options msf use auxiliary/scanner/smb/impacket/dcomexec msf undefineddcomexec show actions ...actions... msf undefineddcomexec set ACTION msf...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

PowerShell Post-Exploitation Agent: Empire

Empire is a post-exploitation framework that includes a pure-PowerShell2.0 Windows agent, and a pure Python 2.6/2.7 Linux/OS X agent. It is the merge of the previous PowerShell Empire and Python EmPyre projects. The framework offers cryptologically-secure communications and a flexible architectur...

BadRabbit: a closer look at the new version of Petya/NotPetya

Petya/NotPetya aka EternalPetya, made headlines in June, due to it's massive attack on Ukraine. Today, we noted an outbreak of a similar-looking malware, called BadRabbit, probably prepared by the same authors. Just like the previous edition, BadRabbit has an infector allowing for lateral...

Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-10-26 16:10 EDT: added additional information regarding the links between Nyetya and BadRabbitUpdate 2017-10-26 09:20...

Exploit for Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Google Android

-CVE-2017-0785-BlueBorne-PoC CVE-2017-0785 BlueBorne PoC Gener...

Proxy Aware PowerShell C2 Framework: PoshC2

PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework written completely in PowerShell to aid penetration testers with red teaming, post-exploitation and lateral movement. The tools and modules were developed off the back of our successful PowerShell sessions and payload types for the Metasploit Framework...

Portia - Automate Techniques Commonly Performed On Internal Network Penetration Tests

Portia aims to automate a number of techniques commonly performed on internal network penetration tests after a low privileged account has been compromised: Privilege escalation Lateral movement Convenience modules Portia is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders - known for their...

APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

Automated Privilege Escalation: portia

Portia aims to automate a number of techniques commonly performed on internal network penetration tests after a low privileged account has been compromised Privilege escalation Lateral movement Convenience modules Portia is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders – known for their...

Petya Ransomware Lateral Movement Remote Code Execution

Petya is a malware that infects Windows computers, encrypting files and demanding ransom to decrypt the files. Once a network is infected the malware propagates laterally to further infect devices on the network...

Petya Destructive Malware Variant Spreading via Stolen Credentials and EternalBlue Exploit

UPDATE July 21: FireEye continues to track this threat. An earlier version of this post has been updated to reflect new findings. On June 27, 2017, multiple organizations – many in Europe – reported significant disruptions they are attributing to a variant of the Petya ransomware, which we are...

xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States. In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms mak...

PoshC2 - Powershell C2 Server and Implants

PoshC2 is a proxy aware C2 framework written completely in PowerShell to aid penetration testers with red teaming, post-exploitation and lateral movement. The tools and modules were developed off the back of our successful PowerShell sessions and payload types for the Metasploit Framework...