Hunting COM Objects

COM objects have recently been used by penetration testers, Red Teams, and malicious actors to perform lateral movement. COM objects were studied by several other researchers in the past, including Matt Nelson enigma0x3, who published a blog post about it in 2017. Some of these COM objects were...

Hackers Infect 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers with Rootkit Malware

Cyber Security researchers at Guardicore Labs today published a detailed report on a widespread cryptojacking campaign attacking Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. Dubbed Nansh0u, the malicious campaign is reportedly being carried out by an APT-style Chinese hacking group who has...

IT threat evolution Q1 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Go Zebrocy Zebrocy was first observed being used as a Sofacy backdoor in 2015. However, the collection of cases where this tool has been used mean that we consider it a subset of activity in its own right. On the basis of this threat actor's past behaviour, ...

Graffiti - A Tool To Generate Obfuscated One Liners To Aid In Penetration Testing

NOTE : Never upload payloads to online checkers Graffiti is a tool to generate obfuscated oneliners to aid in penetration testing situations. Graffiti accepts the following languages for encoding: Python Perl Batch Powershell PHP Bash Graffiti will also accept a language that is not currently on...

Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...

Recent MuddyWater-associated BlackWater campaign shows signs of new anti-detection techniques

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, and Kendall McKay Executive summary Cisco Talos assesses with moderate confidence that a campaign we recently discovered called "BlackWater" is associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater. Newly associated samples from April...

Microsoft Azure AD Connect Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - Windows

Microsoft Azure AD Connect is prone to an elevation of privilege vulnerability. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program...

CVE-2019-1000

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect build 1.3.20.0, which allows an attacker to execute two PowerShell cmdlets in context of a privileged account, and perform privileged actions.To exploit this, an attacker would need to authenticate to the...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2019-0708-Vulnerability-Scanner Powershell script to run a...

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect Remote Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-14680)

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect ADC is a service from Microsoft that provides identity and access management in the cloud. A remote elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect. It allows an attacker to execute two PowerShell Cmdlets in the...

Windows Defender Application Control Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows Defender Application Control WDAC which could allow an attacker to bypass WDAC enforcement. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could circumvent Windows PowerShell Constrained Language Mode on the machine. To exploit...

Microsoft Azure AD Connect Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect build 1.3.20.0, which allows an attacker to execute two PowerShell cmdlets in context of a privileged account, and perform privileged actions. To exploit this, an attacker would need to authenticate to the...

Microsoft Guidance to mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities

Executive Summary On May 14, 2019, Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities may be able to read privileged data across trust...

Oracle Weblogic Server - 'AsyncResponseService' Deserialization Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Oracle Weblogic Server Deserialization RCE - AsyncResponseService ', 'Description' = %q An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the...

PostgreSQL COPY FROM PROGRAM Command Execution Exploit

Installations running Postgres 9.3 and above have functionality which allows for the superuser and users with 'pgexecuteserverprogram' to pipe to and from an external program using COPY. This allows arbitrary command execution as though you have console access. This module attempts to create a ne...

PeekABoo - Tool To Enable Remote Desktop On The Targeted Machine

PeekABoo tool can be used during internal penetration testing when a user needs to enable Remote Desktop on the targeted machine. It uses PowerShell remoting to perform this task. The tool only works if WinRM is enabled. Since Windows Server 2012 WinRM is enabled by default on all Windows server...

Windows PowerShell ISE - Remote Code Execution

Windows PowerShell ISE - Remote Code Execution + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WINDOWS-POWERSHELL-ISE-FILENAME-PARSING-FLAW-RCE-0DAY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec + Zero Day Initiative Program Vendor...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell ISE - Remote Code Execution

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WINDOWS-POWERSHELL-ISE-FILENAME-PARSING-FLAW-RCE-0DAY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec + Zero Day Initiative Program Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows PowerShell ISE The...

Windows PowerShell ISE / Filename Parsing Flaw Remote Code Execution

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WINDOWS-POWERSHELL-ISE-FILENAME-PARSING-FLAW-RCE-0DAY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec + Zero Day Initiative Program Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows PowerShell ISE The...

Windows PowerShell ISE / Filename Parsing Flaw Remote Code Execution Exploit

Microsoft Windows PowerShell ISE will execute wrongly supplied code when debugging specially crafted PowerShell scripts that contain array brackets as part of the filename. This can result in ISE executing attacker supplied scripts pointed to by the filename and not the "trusted" PS file currentl...