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Blog / November 12, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
Introduction This post will walk through how I created a library which implements Cobalt Strike’s External C2 Specification, introduces the ExternalC2.NET NuGet packages, and demonstrates how to use them in a custom third-party controller and client. External C2 Cobalt Strike has the ability to accept third-party command & control, allowing operators to go far beyond
Blog / November 1, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
This post will introduce a few new (related) projects that I’ve started to work on. Let’s start with my D/Invoke fork. The aim of this fork is to provide D/Invoke in a more minimalist form. It only contains the core DynamicInvoke and ManualMap functionality, without all the additional helper methods, delegates, structs or enums. This
Blog / October 4, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
Placing backdoors in legitimate applications is a good way to achieve persistence, data exfiltration, and if circumstances allow, privilege escalation. Backdooring .NET assemblies is surprisingly easy using an editor such as dnSpy. This post will run through a simplistic scenario where we backdoor a DLL used by a Blazor Server App. I thought this was
Blog / September 6, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
I’m sure the subject of combining D/Invoke with GadgetToJScript has been written about multiple times; but I wanted to throw my hat into the ring with this post. For those who don’t already know, D/Invoke provides (among other things) a means for dynamically invoking unmanaged APIs without using P/Invoke. GadgetToJScript is a spiritual successor to
Blog / August 17, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
Disclaimer: I didn’t come up with any of the methods or techniques described in this post. I merely glued other people’s work together – like Sharknado and Final Fantasy VIII’s Gunblade, only better. The premise of this post is to better conceal reflection and Assembly.Load() tradecraft in .NET Framework implants. Let’s first have a primer
Blog / July 29, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
NTLM relaying is a popular attack strategy during a penetration test and is really trivial to perform. Just roll up at the client site, plug your laptop into the LAN, fire up responder and ntlmrelayx, and away you go. The majority of opportunistic relays come when a user or a machine tries to access an
Blog / July 5, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
In Part 1, we reviewed the very simple VirtualAllocEx/WriteProcessMemory/CreateRemoteThread injection pattern. The two major OPSEC concern(s) that it had was both an RX memory region and an executing thread that were not backed by a module on disk. In this part, we’ll fix the “thread” issue by replacing the use of CreateRemoteThread with QueueUserAPC. The
Blog / June 21, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
If you’ve any experience with building infrastructure designed to support a red team or adversary simulation exercise, you’ll have likely come across the Red Team Infrastructure Wiki. If not, it’s a curated collection of resources for creating secure and resilient infrastructure – covering everything from high-level design considerations to step-by-step setup instructions. Just a cursory
Blog / June 12, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
Cobalt Strike 4.2 introduced a new set of “spawn and tunnel” commands called spunnel and spunnel_local. Shortly after release, Raphael Mudge published a blog post entitled Core Impact and Cobalt Strike Interoperability, in which he details how these can be used to tunnel Core Impact’s agent through Beacon. The CS manual also says the commands
Blog / June 6, 2021 / Rasta Mouse
This is the first in a short series of posts designed to explore common (remote) process injection techniques and their OPSEC considerations. Each part will introduce a different technique that will address one or more “weaknesses” previously identified. This post will analyse the most classical method of injection – the VirtualAllocEx/WriteProcessMemory/CreateRemoteThread pattern; and assumes the