Unraveling Turla APT Attack Against Swiss Defense Firm

Ever since hackers targeted Swiss defense contractor RUAG, government officials have been tight lipped about the breach. But on Monday Switzerland’s CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team spilled the beans on the attack against the firm and the how perpetrators pulled it off. While Monday’s repor...

Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware Difficult to Detect

It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as-a-service named AlphaLocker. One of the main selling points to AlphaLocker is how cheap it is; the ransomware can be...

Palo Alto PAN-OS HTTP Header Evasion Vulnerability (PAN-SA-2016-0006)

An evasion was identified whereby a user could specially craft an HTTP header to evade URL filtering on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

PLATINUM Hackers Hijack Windows Hotpatching to Stay Hidden

In Brief The Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team detected that a cyber espionage group of hackers, known as PLATINUM, has found a way to turn the Windows's Hotpatching technique a way of updating the operating system without requiring a restart to hide its malware from...

Latest TeslaCrypt Targets New File Extensions, Invests Heavily in Evasion

TeslaCrypt, like many of its ransomware cousins, doesn’t sleep on past success. Researchers at Endgame Inc., have found two updates for the cryptoransomware in the past two weeks that invest heavily in obfuscation and evasion techniques, and also target a host of new file extensions. These sample...

HTTP Header Evasion

An evasion was identified whereby a user could specially craft an HTTP header to evade URL filtering on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Ref 93838...

ROPInjector - Convert any Shellcode in ROP and patch it into a given Portable Executable (PE)

A tool written in C Win32 to convert any shellcode in ROP and patch it into a given portable executable PE. It supports only 32-bit target PEs and the x86 instruction set. Published in Blackhat USA 2015, "ROPInjector: Using Return Oriented Programming for Polymorphism and Antivirus Evasion" More...

Qbot Malware is Back: 54K Infections in One Month

The Qbot malware is back and hard at work again with infections reported on 54,517 machines, according to researchers at BAE Systems—with 85 percent of those impacted systems residing in the United States. Qbot’s latest incarnation has learned new tricks since its early days in 2009, and is rilin...

Stop Scanning My Macro

FireEye Labs detected an interesting evasion strategy in two recent, large Dridex campaigns. These campaigns changed the attachment file-type and location of malicious logic in an attempt to avoid scanners. Overview Both campaigns used an invoice theme and came from a wide variety of sending...

Foolav - Pentest Tool For Antivirus Evasion and Running Arbitrary Payload on Target Wintel Host

Executable compiled with this code is useful during penetration tests where there is a need to execute some payload meterpreter maybe? while being certain that it will not be detected by antivirus software. The only requirement is to be able to upload two files: binary executable and payload file...

Venom - Metasploit Shellcode Generator / Compiler / Listenner

The script will use msfvenom metasploit to generate shellcode in diferent formats c | python | ruby | dll | msi | hta-psh , injects the shellcode generated into one funtion example: python "the python funtion will execute the shellcode in ram" and uses compilers like: gcc gnu cross compiler or...

Compal ConnectBox - Wireless Passphrase Filter Bypass

Document Title: =============== Compal ConnectBox - Wireless Passphrase Filter Bypass References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1705 Release Date: ============= 2016-02-03 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1705...

URLZone Back and Targeting Japanese Banks

After a good two to three years of relative silence, the gang behind the banking Trojan URLZone has become more active over the past few months and taken aim at banks across Europe and beginning last month, Japan. Attackers have begun sending spam emails with poisoned attachments to customers at ...

URLZone Zones in on Japan

Recently we’ve seen an interesting trend from several crimeware families that were mainly active in the European region, and have now expanded their activity to Japan. Rovnix is one such family, as recently reported by IBM X-Force. At the same time, we’ve seen another spam campaign break out in...

Kali Linux: Kill Chain

Kill Chain for Kali Linux 2.0 is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependencies: Tor — For the console build in anonymizer. Set — Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Shellcode Generator: Venom

Shellcode Generator The script will use msfvenom metasploit to generate shellcode in diferent formats c | python | ruby | dll | msi | hta-psh , injects the shellcode generated into one funtion example: python “the python funtion will execute the shellcode in ram” and uses compilers like: gcc gnu...

Killchain - A Unified Console To Perform The "Kill Chain" Stages Of Attacks

“Kill Chain” is a unified console with an anonymizer that will perform these stages of attacks: Reconnaissance Weaponization Delivery Exploit Installation Command & Control And Actions Dependant tool sets are: 1 Tor -- For the console build in anonymizer. 2 Set -- Social-Engineer Toolkit SET,...

Base64 Decode Method inside HTTP Header

Attackers may use Base64 encoded content inside HTTP headers, and decode it dynamically in order to avoid being detected by IPS products...

Offensive Powershell Console: PSPunch

PSPunch combines some of the best projects in the infosec powershell community into a self contained executable. It’s designed to evade antivirus and Incident Response teams. 1. It doesn’t rely on powershell.exe. Instead it calls powershell directly through the dotNet framework. 2. The modules th...

Persistent Financial Malware 'Nemesis' Targets Boot Record

A group of attackers are behind a strain of payment card malware that has bootkit functionality, something that makes it very difficult to detect, much less remove. “FIN1,” the group behind the malware, appears to be based in Russia, according to researchers at both FireEye and Mandiant who...