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    After the introduction of PowerShell detection capabilities, attackers did what you expect and migrated over to less scrutinised technologies, such as .NET. Fast-forward a few years and many of us…

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    Introduction Actions is a CI/CD pipeline, built into GitHub, which was made generally available back in November 2019. Actions allows us to build, test and deploy our code based on triggers…

  • Getting What You’re Entitled To: A Journey Into MacOS Stored Credentials

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    Feb 10th, 2020

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    Introduction Credential recovery is a common tactic for red team operators and of particular interest are persistently stored, remote access credentials as these may provide an opportunity to move laterally…

  • Testing your RedTeam Infrastructure

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    Feb 10th, 2020

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    As RedTeaming has grown with the industry, so has our need to build dependable environments. In keeping with the cat-and-mouse game we find ourselves in, it’s essential to possess the…

  • Deep Dive in to Citrix ADC Remote Code Execution, CVE-2019-19781

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    Last month, a critical vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway was published under CVE-2019-19781. The vulnerability caught our attention as it suggested that an unauthenticated adversary could leverage it to…

  • MacOS Filename Homoglyphs Revisited

    Dec 10th, 2019

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    Last year I posted a few tricks to help when targeting MacOS users, and included a technique useful for spoofing file extensions with the aim of taking advantage of Finder’s…

  • RdpThief: Extracting Clear-text Credentials from Remote Desktop Clients

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    Nov 13th, 2019

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    Introduction Remote Desktop is one of the most widely used tools for managing Windows Servers. Admins love using RDP and so do attackers. Often the credentials that are used to…

  • Introducing the Office 365 Attack Toolkit

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    During our red team operations, we frequently come in contact with organisations using Office 365. The present tooling targeted at this environment is somewhat limited meaning that development is often…

  • Persistence: “the continued or prolonged existence of something”: Part 3 – WMI Event Subscription

    May 29th, 2019

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    In my previous two posts I covered persistence using both Microsoft Office and COM hijacking, in this post I’ll discuss my third favourite technique for persistence; WMI event subscription. Unlike…

  • Persistence: “the continued or prolonged existence of something”: Part 2 – COM Hijacking

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    In the first post I talked about my favourite persistence technique using Microsoft Office add-ins and templates. My second favourite technique for persistence is using COM hijacking which will be…

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