Persistence – Accessibility Features

The accessibility features provide additional options on screen keyboards, magnifier, screen reading etc. that could assist people with disabilities to use Windows operating systems easier. However, this functionality can be abused to achieve persistence on a host that RDP is enabled and...

CVE-2019-12408

It was discovered that the C++ implementation which underlies the R, Python and Ruby implementations of Apache Arrow 0.14.0 to 0.14.1 had a uninitialized memory bug when building arrays with null values in some cases. This can lead to uninitialized memory being unintentionally shared if Arrow...

xHelper Malware for Android

xHelper is not interesting because of its infection mechanism; the user has to side-load an app onto his phone. It's not interesting because of its payload; it seems to do nothing more than show unwanted ads. it's interesting because of its persistence: Furthermore, even if users spot the xHelper...

Powershell Profile Persistence

This module establishes persistence by modifying a PowerShell profile script, which is automatically executed when PowerShell starts. The module supports multiple profile scopes current user or all users and safely backs up any existing profile prior to modification, enabling clean removal by...

Persistence – Scheduled Tasks

Windows operating systems provide a utility schtasks.exe which enables system administrators to execute a program or a script at a specific given date and time. This kind of behavior has been heavily abused by threat actors and red teams as a persistence mechanism. Administrator privileges are no...

UBoat - HTTP Botnet Project

A POC HTTP Botnet designed to replicate a full weaponised commercial botnet Disclaimer This project should be used for authorized testing or educational purposes only. The main objective behind creating this offensive project was to aid security researchers and to enhance the understanding of...

Persistence – BITS Jobs

Windows operating systems contain various utilities which can be used by system administrators to perform various tasks. One of these utilities is the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS which can facilitate file transfer capability to web servers HTTP and share folders SMB. Microsoft...

Persistence – Netsh Helper DLL

Netsh is a Windows utility which can be used by administrators to perform tasks related to the network configuration of a system and perform modifications on the host based Windows firewall. Netsh functionality can be extended with the usage of DLL files. This capability enable red teams to use...

Persistence – Port Monitors

The print spooler service is responsible for managing printing jobs in Windows operating systems. Interaction with the service is performed through the Print Spooler API which contains a function AddMonitor that can be used to install local port monitors and connects the configuration, data and...

Avast Antivirus (All Editions) < 19.8 DLL Preloading Vulnerability - Windows

Avast Antivirus is prone to a dll preloading vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:avast:antivirus";...

If You Don’t Have 2, You Don’t Have 1

If You Don’t Have 2, You Don’t Have 1 “If you don’t have 2, you don’t have 1” is something you hear often in our engineering group. This is our team’s way of stressing the importance of persistence in data engineering. If a stream goes down, you lose it. You have to get confirmation that data is...

Apple iTunes and iCloud for Windows 0-Day Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

Watch out Windows users! The cybercriminal group behind BitPaymer and iEncrypt ransomware attacks has been found exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting a little-known component that comes bundled with Apple's iTunes and iCloud software for Windows to evade antivirus detection. The vulnerab...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat A-MQ Broker 7.5 release and security update

Red Hat A-MQ Broker 7.5 is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

Chrome 0-day exploit CVE-2019-13720 used in Operation WizardOpium

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Google Chrome is a web browser used to access the Internet. Successful exploitation of the most severe vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary co...

CVE-2019-17375

cPanel before 82.0.15 allows API token credentials to persist after an account has been renamed or terminated SEC-517...

Code injection

cPanel before 82.0.15 allows API token credentials to persist after an account has been renamed or terminated SEC-517...

CVE-2019-3688

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain...

Code injection

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain...

CVE-2019-3688

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain...

CVE-2019-3688

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain...