CIMplant - C# Port Of WMImplant Which Uses Either CIM Or WMI To Query Remote Systems

C port of WMImplant which uses either CIM or WMI to query remote systems. It can use provided credentials or the current user's session. Note: Some commands will use PowerShell in combination with WMI, denoted with in the --show-commands command. Introduction CIMplant is a C rewrite and expansion...

April 13, 2021—KB5001392 (Security-only update)

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March 9, 2021—Hotpatch KB5001080 (OS Build 17784.1588)

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December 8, 2020—KB4592471 (Monthly Rollup)

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VMware Carbon Black First to Block Hidden Malicious Commands in Obfuscated Scripts

For a long time now, our Threat Analysts have flagged the growing threat of script-based attacks, especially from Microsoft PowerShell and Windows Management Interface script commands, and their ability to escape notice in many antivirus solutions. Increasingly, these types of attacks have become...

PowerSploit

This is a PowerShell module repository called PowerSploit, which is a collection of tools for penetration testing and red teaming. The repository contains several modules, including AntivirusBypass and CodeExecution. The AntivirusBypass module is designed to help evade antivirus detection, and it...

The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware

The linchpin of successful cyberattacks, exemplified by nation state-level attacks and human-operated ransomware, is their ability to find the path of least resistance and progressively move across a compromised network. Determining the full scope and impact of these attacks is one the most...

June 9, 2020—KB4561621 (OS Build 17134.1550)

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PowerTools

This repository is an offensive tool for PowerShell exploitation. It contains a collection of scripts that utilize a common pattern to host a script on a PowerShell webserver, invoke the IEX download cradle to download/execute the target code and post the results back to the server, and then...

Persistence – WMI Event Subscription

Windows Management Instrumentation WMI enables system administrators to perform tasks locally and remotely. From the perspective of red teaming WMI can be used to perform… Continue reading - Persistence - WMI Event Subscription...

CertUtil Qualms: They Came to Drop FOMBs

This blog post covers an interesting intrusion attempt that Mandiant Managed Defense thwarted involving the rapid weaponization of a recently disclosed vulnerability combined with the creative use of WMI compiled “.bmf” files and CertUtil for obfuscated execution. This intrusion attempt highlight...

Watch Out! Microsoft Spotted Spike in Astaroth Fileless Malware Attacks

Security researchers at Microsoft have released details of a new widespread campaign distributing an infamous piece of fileless malware that was primarily being found targeting European and Brazilian users earlier this year. Dubbed Astaroth , the malware trojan has been making the rounds since at...

Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposes Astaroth attack

The prevailing perception about fileless threats, among the security industry’s biggest areas of concern today, is that security solutions are helpless against these supposedly invincible threats. Because fileless attacks run the payload directly in memory or leverage legitimate system tools to r...

Google Android Qualcomm Closed Source Component Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-24144)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. A closed-source component buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm closed-source component in Android. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a buffer overflow when...

The Fileless, Non-Malware Menace

There’s an old expression: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. What happens, though, if the duck in question is malware that doesn’t behave like typical malware? Namely, it doesn’t drop a file on your disk to infect your computer, hijack...

CVE-2018-11746

In Puppet Discovery prior to 1.2.0, when running Discovery against Windows hosts, WinRM connections can fall back to using basic auth over insecure channels if a HTTPS server is not available. This can expose the login credentials being used by Puppet Discovery...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Non Malware Attack Methods

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest non-malware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo,...

March 22, 2018—KB4088889 (OS Build 14393.2155)

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March 22, 2018—KB4088882 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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“Ready Player One” – Are you Ready to Protect Your Endpoints from the Bad Guys?

At times it can feel like a game as you watch the cyber-breach scorecards. Yahoo 3 billion users, Equifax 143 million consumers, Uber 57 million users, Imgur 1.7 million users are just a sample of the companies that have released new information on large breaches in the last few months...