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Jun 18th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
By now, many of us know that during an engagement, AMSI (Antimalware Scripting Interface) can be used to trip up PowerShell scripts in an operators arsenal. Attempt to IEX Invoke-Mimikatz…
Mar 7th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
Getting a foothold is often one of the most complex and time-consuming aspects of an adversary simulation. We typically find much of our effort is spent creating and testing payloads…
Feb 9th, 2018
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ActiveBreach
Last week, it was reported that an exploit was being used to spread the ROKRAT malware. What made this so interesting is that Flash was being used by an APT…
Dec 7th, 2017
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Penetration testing
During a recent mobile application assessment, MDSec’s mobile team encountered a binary protocol over HTTP used for server communication. Analysis of this protocol revealed it to be Apache Thrift, which…
Sep 18th, 2017
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Hardware
The MDSec hardware security team were recently researching the Virgin Super Hub 2ac; the latest of Virgin’s Super Hub models which supports the 5Ghz band of wireless. This blog post…
Sep 15th, 2017
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Exploitation
Overview Sophos Web Appliance is a “next generation” anti-malware and content filtering proxy appliance created by Sophos. Description During a review of Sophos Web Appliance, MDSec discovered a remote code…
Sep 13th, 2017
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ActiveBreach
Introduction CVE-2017-8759, the vulnerability recently discovered by FireEye as being exploited in the wild is a code injection vulnerability that occurs in the .NET framework when parsing a WSDL using…
Aug 4th, 2017
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ActiveBreach
What is ANGRYPUPPY ANGRYPUPPY is a tool for the Cobalt Strike framework, designed to automatically parse and execute BloodHound attack paths. ANGRYPUPPY was partly inspired by the GoFetch and DeathStar projects, which…
Jul 14th, 2017
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ActiveBreach
Delivery of staged and stageless payloads is often achieved using the PowerShell web delivery technique. While this is a highly effective strategy for staging, in some cases it can be…
Jul 12th, 2017
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ActiveBreach
A key step in an adversary simulation is the reconnaissance phase which almost always requires obtaining e-mail addresses for employees within the organisation. LinkedIn is probably one of the most…