Dropped USB flash drives are still effective means for getting into networks. The goal of this post is to give you a bit of a hands on lab and show you some tricks for actually conducting USB drop attacks, including how to prepare the payload using Core Impact. USB drop attacks are a bit of a performance art form. You need to build an enticing story that’ll make the discoverers of the drop, whom...

In part 7, we solved ABO2 in GHIDRA. In this part, we’ll use IDA FREE to solve ABO3. As is the case with all of the ABOS, the goal is to run the calculator or some other executable that we want. First, open ABO3 in IDA FREE to analyze it. Searching for the PDB in the symbol server could produce the...

The new format of Microsoft monthly updates have proven challenging to reverse engineer. We’ve figured out a workaround that we hope will be helpful. In the original format, the Microsoft updates have always included the full files to patch, and from there it’s relatively straightforward to work on reversing and diffing through only extracting, without installing the patch. Sometimes the patch...

Core Impact 2017 R1 and Metasploit Pro are tools used to create multi-staged, real-world attacks to test enterprise security defenses. Organizations need improved visibility into the the holes in their enterprise network defenses. Pen Testing tools allow an organization to evaluate their ability to detect, prevent, and respond to attacks using multi-staged, real-world attacks. Both Core Impact...

Ransomware, as an active variant of current malware, has undoubtedly undergone a series of changes that have allowed cyber criminals to expand the horizons of clandestine business. In order to try to understand the different "forms" ransomware has presented over time, this article will show the evolutionary line of this latent threat in a compact and concrete way. Ultimately, it aims to...

Authored by: Ernesto Alvarez, Senior Security Consultant, Security Consulting Services This article describes techniques used for creating UDP redirectors for protecting Cobalt Strike team servers. This is one of the recommended mechanisms for hiding Cobalt Strike team servers and involves adding different points which a Beacon can contact for instructions when using the HTTP channel. Unlike HTTP...

A Core Impact module was released on January 14, 2020 to exploit an as-yet unpatched patch traversal flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway (formerly known as NetScaler ADC & NetScaler Gateway) identified as CVE-2019-19781.This critical vulnerability is a path traversal bug that can be exploited over the internet by an attacker. It can be exploited to remotely execute...

Here’s the scenario: You’ve compromised a system but it hasn’t been logged into recently by an administrator, so you’re quite disappointed by your Mimikatz results. You’ve got local system credentials but nothing that’s on the domain except the machine account. Your mission: do something with the system that will attract the attention of someone with administrator credentials and make them log...

What if I told you that in most networks these days, you don’t have to bother with cracking the passwords? With most networks with Active Directory, you can use the stored hash obtained via Mimikatz or a WPAD attack to authenticate. How, you may ask? It’s because of the wondrous bit of mis-engineering that is the Windows NT Login Challenge and Response. I’m going to dive into this a bit, so that...

Oftentimes after using Network Information Gathering, we are still left with a number of devices that may reflect an "Unknown" OS. With the saturation of these devices in the market today, there is a good chance there may be some located on your network. By identifying these devices we can also potentially expand our attack surface and gain other useful information. So, where do we start? We may...

In this installment, we’ll start diving into the anatomy of an Impact module where you'll get the opportunity to absorb some of the features and implications before we dive into building something real and useful. In the course of conducting penetration tests, we often come across password hashes of various types. We can sometimes use these without cracking them, but, it is often useful and...

In our last installment, I gave you a final hunk of code with several function calls and decided to let you stew for a week before revealing what was going on under the hood. Well, you’ve stewed for a week, so let’s review. while DoneWithCrack == False: if not self.getTasks(str(self.getHashCatPath()).split("\\")[-1]): DoneWithCrack=True if os.path.exists(outputFile): f...

Last week, we discussed exactly what we’ll be building and got some of the boilerplate done along the way. I’m sure that you dug into the modules that I strongly hinted that you take a look at for inspiration. To review, this module will need to: Know where the Hashcat executable lives Know what hashes we want cracked Know the minimum password length to brute force Know the maximum password...