Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

PowerShell Post-Exploitation Agent: Empire

Empire is a post-exploitation framework that includes a pure-PowerShell2.0 Windows agent, and a pure Python 2.6/2.7 Linux/OS X agent. It is the merge of the previous PowerShell Empire and Python EmPyre projects. The framework offers cryptologically-secure communications and a flexible architectur...

BadRabbit: a closer look at the new version of Petya/NotPetya

Petya/NotPetya aka EternalPetya, made headlines in June, due to it's massive attack on Ukraine. Today, we noted an outbreak of a similar-looking malware, called BadRabbit, probably prepared by the same authors. Just like the previous edition, BadRabbit has an infector allowing for lateral...

Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-10-26 16:10 EDT: added additional information regarding the links between Nyetya and BadRabbitUpdate 2017-10-26 09:20...

Exploit for Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Google Android

-CVE-2017-0785-BlueBorne-PoC CVE-2017-0785 BlueBorne PoC Gener...

EternalBlue Exploit Used in Retefe Banking Trojan Campaign

Criminals behind the Retefe banking Trojan have added a new component to their malware that uses the NSA exploit EternalBlue. The update makes Retefe the latest malware family to adopt the SMBv1 attack against a patched Windows vulnerability, and could signal an emerging trend, said researchers a...

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...

Portia - Automate Techniques Commonly Performed On Internal Network Penetration Tests

Portia aims to automate a number of techniques commonly performed on internal network penetration tests after a low privileged account has been compromised: Privilege escalation Lateral movement Convenience modules Portia is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders - known for their...

Automate Getting Domain Admin Using Empire: DeathStar

DeathStar is a Python script that uses Empire’s RESTful API to automate gaining Domain Admin rights in Active Directory environments using a variety of techinques. Installation Currently, for Death Star to work you’re going to have to install byt3bl33d3r’s fork of Empire until this pull request...

APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

Automated Privilege Escalation: portia

Portia aims to automate a number of techniques commonly performed on internal network penetration tests after a low privileged account has been compromised Privilege escalation Lateral movement Convenience modules Portia is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders – known for their...

Petya Ransomware Lateral Movement Remote Code Execution

Petya is a malware that infects Windows computers, encrypting files and demanding ransom to decrypt the files. Once a network is infected the malware propagates laterally to further infect devices on the network...

Petya Destructive Malware Variant Spreading via Stolen Credentials and EternalBlue Exploit

UPDATE July 21: FireEye continues to track this threat. An earlier version of this post has been updated to reflect new findings. On June 27, 2017, multiple organizations – many in Europe – reported significant disruptions they are attributing to a variant of the Petya ransomware, which we are...

xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States. In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms mak...

PoshC2 - Powershell C2 Server and Implants

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...

WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation PowerShell RAT: WMImplant

WMImplant is a PowerShell based tool that leverages WMI to both perform actions against targeted machines, but also as the C2 channel for issuing commands and receiving results. WMImplant will likely require local administrator permissions on the targeted machine. It is designed to run both...

New Clues Surface on Shamoon 2's Destructive Behavior

Researchers on Monday reported progress in piecing together some of the missing pieces of the Shamoon 2 puzzle that have been eluding them when it comes to lateral network movement and execution of the Disttrack malware component used in past campaigns. Shamoon 2 uses a combination of legitimate...

WinAPI User Hunter: hunter

WinAPI User Hunter During Red Team engagements it is common to track/hunt specific users. Assuming we already have access to a desktop as a normal user no matter how, always “assume compromise” in a Windows Domain and we want to spread laterally. We want to know where the user is logged on, if he...

PT-2025-41460

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AVTECH devices affected versions not specified Description AVTECH devices that include the CloudSetup.cgi management endpoint are susceptible to authenticated OS command injection. The exefile parameter within the ''CloudSetup.cgi'' endpoint i...