DNSpionage brings out the Karkoff

Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres authored this post. Update 4/24: The C2 section below now includes details around the XOR element of the C2 communication system. Executive summary In November 2018, Cisco Talos discovered an attack campaign, called DNSpionage, in which threat actors created a n...

Gemalto Sentinel UltraPro 32bit Client Library Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login-based detection of the Gemalto Sentinel UltraPro 32bit Client Library. 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 ifdescription...

VMware Workstation 14.1.5 VMware Player 15 - Host VMX Process COM Class Hijack Privilege Escalation

VMware Workstation 14.1.5 VMware Player 15 - Host VMX Process COM Class Hijack Privilege Escalation VMware: Host VMX Process COM Class Hijack EoP Platform: VMware Workstation Windows v14.1.5 on Windows 10. Also tested VMware Player 15. Class: Elevation of Privilege Summary: COM classes used by th...

RogueRobin Malware Uses Google Drive as C2 Channel

A custom malware used by the APT known as DarkHydrus uses a mix of novel techniques, including using Google Drive as an alternate command-and-control C2 channel. According to Palo Alto’s Unit 42 intelligence division, the targeted attack involved spear-phishing emails written in Arabic sent to...

Pylocky Unlocked: Cisco Talos releases PyLocky ransomware decryptor

This tool was developed by Mike Bautista. PyLocky is a family of ransomware written in Python that attempts to masquerade as a Locky variant. This ransomware will encrypt all files on a victim machine before demanding that the user pay a ransom to gain access to their decrypted files. To combat...

Infection Monkey v1.6 - An Automated Pentest Tool

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center's resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Monkey Island server. The Infection Monkey i...

Windows NetBIOS / SMB Remote Host Report Tag

Either SMB or NetBIOS was used to determine the the device's hostname. Note that this plugin creates a tag for the host but does not itself generate a report. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid118730; scriptversion"1.6";...

Telegram Desktop Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login and WMI file search based detection of Telegram Desktop. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 ifdescription...

kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption

In the function wmisetie in the Linux kernel the length validation code does not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the ‘ielen’ argument can cause a buffer overflow and thus a memory corruption leading to a system crash or other or unspecified impact. Due to...

CVE-2018-11872

Improper input validation leads to buffer overwrite in the WLAN function that handles WMI commands in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 845, SD 850, SDA660...

Input validation

Improper input validation leads to buffer overwrite in the WLAN function that handles WMI commands in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 835, SD 845, SD 850...

CVE-2018-11856

Improper input validation leads to buffer overwrite in the WLAN function that handles WMI commands in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 835, SD 845, SD 850...

CVE-2018-11856

Improper input validation leads to buffer overwrite in the WLAN function that handles WMI commands in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 835, SD 845, SD 850...

CVE-2018-11872

Improper input validation leads to buffer overwrite in the WLAN function that handles WMI commands in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 845, SD 850, SDA660...

CVE-2018-11856

CVE-2018-11856 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon vulnerability describing improper input validation that leads to a buffer overwrite in the WLAN/WMI handling function on Snapdragon Mobile platforms (SD 835, 845, 850). The issue is triggered within the WLAN component during processing of WMI commands. The ...

RemoteRecon - Remote Recon And Collection

RemoteRecon provides the ability to execute post-exploitation capabilities against a remote host, without having to expose your complete toolkit/agent. Often times as operator's we need to compromise a host, just so we can keylog or screenshot or some other miniscule task against a person/host of...

Carbon Black Report: Tools of Choice

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report PowerShell and WMI Remain Tools of Choice for Cyberattacks We’ve long known that PowerShell has been abused, but it is still significant that 100% of respondents say they believe the tool most often helps facilitate lateral movements, followed by WMI at...

Case Study: A Cryptomining Attack — With an Assist From Advanced Malware Techniques

In Carbon Black's Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report QIRTR, some of the world’s leading incident response IR professionals reported seeing an uptick in lateral movement, counter incident response, and island-hopping attacks from motivated nation-states. In the case study below, Kroll notes...

A mining multitool

Recently, an interesting miner implementation appeared on Kaspersky Lab's radar. The malware, which we dubbed PowerGhost, is capable of stealthily establishing itself in a system and spreading across large corporate networks infecting both workstations and servers. This type of hidden consolidati...

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver Multiple Vulnerabilities

The NVIDIA GPU display driver software on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid111107; scriptversion"1.5";...