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Dec 16th, 2021
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ActiveBreach
Introduction MDSec’s ActiveBreach red team operate in the some of the highest maturity environments, where a significant degree of in-memory and post-exploitation operational security is often required to counteract defensive…
Sep 15th, 2021
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ActiveBreach
As part of Microsoft Exchange April and May 2021 patch, several important vulnerabilities were fixed which could lead to code execution or e-mail hijacking. Any outdated and exposed Exchange server…
Mar 9th, 2021
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ActiveBreach
Introduction When looking for new interesting attack surfaces in Windows, I’ve often looked to default file handlers and LOLBins. Another interesting place to look is the default protocol handlers and…
Feb 22nd, 2021
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ActiveBreach
Overview In the ActiveBreach red team, we’re always looking for innovative approaches for lateral movement and privilege escalation. For many of the environments we operate in, focusing on the classic…
Jan 14th, 2021
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ActiveBreach
Overview It’s no secret that macOS post-exploitation is often centric around targeting the installed apps for privilege escalation, persistence and more. Indeed, we’ve previously posted about approaches for code injection…
Jan 12th, 2021
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ActiveBreach
Web browsers are inherently trusted by users. They are trained to trust websites which “have a padlock in the address bar” and that “have the correct name”, This trust leads…
Dec 31st, 2020
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ActiveBreach
Introduction The motivation to bypass user-mode hooks initially began with improving the success rate of process injection. There can be legitimate reasons to perform injection. UI Automation and Active Accessibility will use it…
Nov 23rd, 2020
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ActiveBreach
Introduction Low privileged, user land persistence techniques are worth their weight in gold, as there are far fewer opportunities from this perspective than when you’re elevated. As such, we are…
Oct 20th, 2020
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ActiveBreach
Overview I started out this research having taken some inspiration from @buffaloverflow‘s Chlonium tool for easily exfiltrating and using a victim’s Chromium based web browser cookies. I was working on…
Oct 15th, 2020
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ActiveBreach
In a recent red team engagement, we discovered a SharePoint instance that was vulnerable to CVE-2020-1147. I was asked to build a web shell without running any commands to avoid…