TL;DR Max Corbridge (@CorbridgeMax) and Tom Ellson (@tde_sec) of JUMPSEC’s Red Team recently discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of Microsoft Teams which allows for the possible introduction of malware into any organisations using Microsoft Teams in its default configuration. This is done by bypassing client-side security controls which prevent external tenants from sending files (malware in this case) to staff in your organisation. JUMPSEC has detailed remediation options, as well as some detection opportunities. Introduction Introducing malware into target organisations is becoming increasingly difficult. Many of the traditional payload types (.exe, Office Macros, etc) are now heavily-scrutinised or have been proactively addressed to reduce their efficacy. Similarly, payload delivery avenues such as phishing are becoming increasingly monitored and secured to reduce the...
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Hunting the Snake: An Overview of Threat Hunting with Velociraptor
In May 2023 the NCSC and CISA released a joint cyber security advisory addressing a piece of Russian malware called Snake. According to them, this malware has been gathering...
Ligolo: Quality of Life on Red Team Engagements
In recent months we, JUMPSEC’s red team, have been using a nifty little tool that we would like to share with you in this blog post. Ligolo-ng is a versatile tool that has been...
Hunting for ‘Snake’
Following the NCSC and CISA’s detailed joint advisory on the highly sophisticated ‘Snake’ cyber espionage tool, JUMPSEC threat intelligence analysts have provided a condensed blueprint for organisations to start proactively hunting for Snake within their network, contextualising key Indicators of Compromise (IoC), and providing additional methods to validate the effectiveness of Snake...
Advisory CVE-2023-30382 – Half-Life Local Privilege Escalation
Software: Half-Life Affected versions: Latest (<= build 5433873), at the time of writing Vendor page: www.valvesoftware.com CVE Reference: CVE-2023-30382 Published: 23/05/2023 CVSS 3.1 Score: 8.2 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector: Local Credit: Ryan Saridar Summary An attacker can leverage a stack-based buffer overflow via Half-Life’s command line arguments to compromise the...
Butting Heads with a Threat Actor on an Engagement
After compromising a sensitive external server JUMPSEC’s Red Team found that they were not the first ones there…
Advisory CVE-2022-37832 – Mutiny Network Monitoring Appliance hardcoded credentials
Software: Mutiny Network Monitoring Appliance Affected versions: <= 7.2.0-10855 Vendor page: www.mutiny.com CVE Reference: CVE-2022-37832 Published: 16/12/2022 CVSS 3.1 Score: 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector: Network Credit: Ryan Saridar Summary An attacker can log in as root remotely to the appliance via SSH. Mitigation Upgrade to version 7.2.0-10855 onwards to...
Online Machine Learning: how to integrate user feedback
When designing and implementing a machine learning model, ensuring it is continually updated is a challenge that all engineers encounter. In this article, I explore the online machine learning technique that I used during a project and present how it was implemented for effective results. Choosing a machine learning method Machine learning solutions can be mainly split into offline and...
Implementation and Dynamic Generation for Tasks in Apache Airflow
I recently worked on a project focused on log anomaly detection using manageable machine learning pipelines. The pipelines mainly include data collection --- feature extraction --- feature engineering --- detection/prediction --- updating (maintenance). It’s important to have a solid UI to manage the pipelines so I can easily review the chain of pipelines. After much research, I found many...
QUEST KACE Desktop Authority Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution (CVE-2021-44031)
Software: QUEST KACE Desktop AuthorityAffected Versions: 11.1 and earlier. Vendor page: https://www.quest.com/products/kace-desktop-authority/CVE Reference: CVE-2021-44031Published: 19/11/2021CVSS 3.1 Score: 9.8 CriticalAttack Vector: Pre-authenticated Remote Code ExecutionCredits: Tom Ellson JUMPSEC recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Quest KACE Desktop Authority 11.1. This is an...
Abusing SharedUserData For Defense Evasion and Exploitation
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a custom packer in my spare time. In doing so, I needed to create a method of delaying execution within the unpacker stub that didn’t use any pre-defined functions. This post documents what I discovered during this project as well as some future plans I have for this method. What is SharedUserData and Why does it exist?_KUSER_SHARED_DATA...
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