Detecting Threats in Real-time With Active C2 Information

Often security practitioners rely on the reputation of IP Addresses to determine if traffic to and from that IOC is malicious. In practice, the reputation of IOCs, IPs specifically is only updated when public repositories or tracking projects have observed the command and control server C2 being...

UPDATE: Empire v3.4.0

Empire v3.4.0 was released a couple of days ago! I briefly mentioned about this tool in my old post titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This new version brings support for Malleable C2 listeners and reflective file loading among other bug fixes. What is Empire? Empire 3....

Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software

Title: Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Date: 2020-09-16 Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WindowsTCPIPFingerCommandC2ChannelandBypassingSecuritySoftware.txt...

Microsoft Windows Finger Security Bypass / C2 Channel Exploit

Microsoft Windows TCPIP Finger Command finger.exe that ships with the OS, can be used as a file downloader and makeshift C2 channel. Legitimate use of Windows Finger Command is to send Finger Protocol queries to remote Finger daemons to retrieve user information. However, the finger client can al...

Microsoft Windows Finger Security Bypass / C2 Channel

Title: Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WindowsTCPIPFingerCommandC2ChannelandBypassingSecuritySoftware.txt + twitter.com/hyp3rlinx +...

SNIcat - Server Name Indication Concatenator

SNIcat is a proof of concept tool that performs data exfiltration, utilizing a covert channel method via. Server Name Indication , a TLS Client Hello Extension. The tool consists of an agent which resides on the compromised internal host, and a Command &Control Server which controls the agent and...

Python-based Spy RAT Emerges to Target FinTech

The Evilnum group, which specializes in targeting financial technology companies, has debuted a new tool: A Python-based remote access trojan RAT, dubbed PyVil. The malware’s emergence dovetails with a change in the chain of infection and an expansion of infrastructure for the APT. According to...

LOLBITS v2.0.0 - C2 Framework That Uses Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) As Communication Protocol And Direct Syscalls + Dinvoke For EDR User-Mode Hooking Evasion

LOLBITS is a C2 framework that uses Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS to establish the communication channel between the compromised host and the backend. The C2 backend is hidden behind an apparently harmless flask web application and it's only accesible when the HTTP...

Magecart Credit-Card Skimmer Adds Telegram as C2 Channel

The e-commerce card-skimming landscape has a new wrinkle: Cybercriminals affiliated with the Magecart collective are using encrypted messaging service Telegram as a channel for sending stolen credit-card information back to its command-and-control C2 servers. That’s according to researchers who...

Mihari - A Helper To Run OSINT Queries & Manage Results Continuously

Mihari is a helper to run queries & manage results continuously. Mihari can be used for C2, landing page and phishing hunting. How it works Mihari makes a query against Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, SecurityTrails, etc. and extracts artifacts IP addresses, domains, URLs and hashes from the results...

CVE-2020-0261

In C2 flame devices, there is a possible bypass of seccomp due to a missing configuration file. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID:...

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In C2 flame devices, there is a possible bypass of seccomp due to a missing configuration file. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID:...

CVE-2020-0261

In C2 flame devices, there is a possible bypass of seccomp due to a missing configuration file. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID:...

CVE-2020-0261

CVE-2020-0261 affects the Android kernel (C2 flame devices) with a seccomp bypass caused by a missing configuration file, enabling local elevation of privilege without user interaction. The vulnerability impact is described as high, with local exploitability and complete confidentiality/integrity...

CactusPete APT group’s updated Bisonal backdoor

CactusPete also known as Karma Panda or Tonto Team is an APT group that has been publicly known since at least 2013. Some of the groups activities have been previously described in public by multiple sources. We have been investigating and privately reporting on this groups activity for years as...

Black Hat 2020: Linux Spyware Stack Ties Together 5 Chinese APTs

A stack of Linux backdoor malware used for espionage, compiled dynamically and customizable to specific targets, is being used as a shared resource by five different Chinese-language APT groups, according to researchers. According to an analysis from BlackBerry released at Black Hat 2020 on...

Doki Backdoor Infiltrates Docker Servers in the Cloud

A fresh Linux backdoor called Doki is infesting Docker servers in the cloud, researchers warn, employing a brand-new technique: Using a blockchain wallet for generating command-and-control C2 domain names. Doki however is meant to provide a persistent capability for code-execution on an infected...

OilRig APT Drills into Malware Innovation with Unique Backdoor

A series of cyberattacks on a telecom company in the Middle East has signaled the return of the OilRig APT. The attacks also revealed a revised backdoor tool in the group’s arsenal, called RDAT. The attacks were observed in April by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. Researchers there said that the...

SCANdalous! (External Detection Using Network Scan Data and Automation)

Real Quick In case you’re thrown by that fantastic title, our lawyers made us change the name of this project so we wouldn’t get sued. SCANdalous—a.k.a. Scannah Montana a.k.a. Scanny McScanface a.k.a. “Scan I Kick It? Yes You Scan”—had another name before today that, for legal reasons, we’re...

GIVINGSTORM - Infection Vector That Bypasses AV, IDS, And IPS

The beginnings of a C2 framework. Currently without all the C2 stuff so far. Generates a dual stage VBS infection vector, and a dual stage HTA infection vector. The variables take into account C2 addresses, Koadic/Empire payloads, and a few delivery mechanisms. The payload files are output to an...