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...

PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 (Build 314.0) Code Execution

Exploit Title: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 Javascript API Remote Code Execution Exploit Powershell PDF Exploit Creation Date: 21-08-2017 Software Link 32bit: http://pdf-xchange-viewer.it.uptodown.com/windows Exploit Author: Daniele Votta Contact: [email protected] Website:...

Posh-SSH - PowerShell Module for automating tasks on remote systems using SSH

Windows Powershell module that leverages a custom version of the SSH.NET Library http://sshnet.codeplex.com/ to provide basic SSH functionality in Powershell. The main purpose of the module is to facilitate automating actions against one or multiple SSH enabled servers. This module is for Windows...

Hack with Metasploit: Announcing the UNITED 2017 CTF

Got mad skillz? Want mad skillz? This year at Rapid7s annual UNITED Summit, were hosting a first-of-its-kind Capture the Flag CTF competition. Whether youre a noob to hacking or a grizzled pro, youll emerge from our 25-hour CTF with more knowledge and serious bragging rights. Show off your 1337...

PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 - Code Execution

PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 - Code Execution Exploit Title: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 Javascript API Remote Code Execution Exploit Powershell PDF Exploit Creation Date: 21-08-2017 Software Link 32bit: http://pdf-xchange-viewer.it.uptodown.com/windows Exploit Author: Daniele Votta...

PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 - Code Execution

Exploit Title: PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 Build 314.0 Javascript API Remote Code Execution Exploit Powershell PDF Exploit Creation Date: 21-08-2017 Software Link 32bit: http://pdf-xchange-viewer.it.uptodown.com/windows Exploit Author: Daniele Votta Contact: [email protected] Website:...

Microsoft Word vulnerability: hackers can use the automatic update link to install the malicious software-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media news, the SANS Internet Center a freelance security consultant and Handler in Microsoft Word, found a very interesting vulnerability that allows an attacker to abuse the Word program to automatically update the link function. This is one of the default start function,...

Threat Round-up for Aug 11 - Aug 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between August 11 and August 18. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior...

PowerSAP: A PowerShell SAP Security Assessment Tool!

PenTestIT RSS Feed This post is about PowerSAP, a tool that was included in this years BlackHat Arsenal. What I like about this tool is that it does not try to re-invent the wheel and yet keeps it's source code open for all of us to see and understand. The author @Sn0rkY is upfront about this and...

Invoke-CradleCrafter - PowerShell Remote Download Cradle Generator and Obfuscator

Invoke-CradleCrafter is a PowerShell v2.0+ compatible PowerShell remote download cradle generator and obfuscator. Purpose Invoke-CradleCrafter exists to aid Blue Teams and Red Teams in easily exploring, generating and obfuscating PowerShell remote download cradles. In addition, it helps Blue Team...

Advanced Discovery of Privileged Accounts: ACLight

ACLight is a tool for discovering privileged accounts through advanced ACLs Access Lists analysis. It includes the discovery of Shadow Admins in the scanned network. The tool queries the Active Directory AD for its objects’ ACLs and then filters and analyzes the sensitive permissions of each one...

Windows Exploitation Tricks: Arbitrary Directory Creation to Arbitrary File Read

Posted by James Forshaw, Project Zero For the past couple of months I’ve been presenting my “Introduction to Windows Logical Privilege Escalation Workshop” at a few conferences. The restriction of a 2 hour slot fails to do the topic justice and some interesting tips and tricks I would like to...

PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Framework: Revoke-Obfuscation

Revoke-Obfuscation is an open-source PowerShell v3.0+ framework for detecting obfuscated PowerShell commands and scripts at scale. It relies on PowerShell’s AST Abstract Syntax Tree to rapidly extract thousands of features from any input PowerShell script and compare this feature vector against o...

A week in security (July 31 – August 6)

Last week we explored some basic PowerShell commands, dived into the new methods used by TrickBot, and wrote at length about the Magnitude exploit kit redirection chain. Our teams were busy at both BlackHat and DefCon, and outside of those famous hallways, we also took time to fire up some basic...

Intrusion Detection Avoidance Payload Generator: NPS_Payload

This script will generate payloads for basic intrusion detection avoidance. It utilizes publicly demonstrated techniques from several different sources. Written by Larry Spohn @Spoonman1091 Payload written by Ben Mauch @Ben0xA aka dirtyben. This tool provides a way to generate a PowerShell payloa...

“The seismic network of the third generation”（CVE-2017-8464 several species using the method and prevention-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

As early as 6 May 13, Microsoft released patches to fix numbered CVE-2017-8464 vulnerability, a local user or a remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to generate a specially crafted shortcut, and through a removable device or a remote shared way lead to remote code execution, Dating back...

Learning PowerShell: basic programs

In the previous posts we have looked at some elementary PowerShell concepts and we have constructed some basic commands to export and compare data. We did this by using an example of certificates being dumped in the “Untrusted” category by some malware. This time we will try to write a program th...

Koadic: An Advanced Windows JScript/VBScript RAT!

PenTestIT RSS Feed All of us know that post-exploitation we need some mechanism to maintain access on the target. One of the most common methods is by installing a trojan. I have tried to maintain a list of similar tools on the malware sources page on this blog. Now, there is a new entrant which...

Learning PowerShell: some basic commands

My first Powershell script The first PowerShell script I wrote see below was a quick fix to remove certificates from the “Untrusted” registry key after a Vonteera infection. After some initial commands, this script basically loops back for every certificate that doesn’t belong under a certain key...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...