A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a strategic playbook created to help an organisation maintain or quickly resume business functions in the face of disruption. (Pratt, Tittel, Lindros, 2023) Be honest now. Who really has a truly effective Business Continuity Plan in 2024? Not the compliance-driven plan that has not been reviewed or tested properly for years. Or the “oh no, this supplier questionnaire is asking for a BCP… quick, write one” plan that won’t be much help in reality. Who has an effective plan that will be genuinely useful to their organisation in a time of crisis? Not many organisations do and it’s understandable. We are not aiming to criticise anybody's hard work here. We get it. To put it mildly, the sheer amount of items on any organisation's to-do list combined with budget and resource constraints often lead to things like Business Continuity Planning being...
JUMPSEC LABS
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SSH Tunnelling to Punch Through Corporate Firewalls – Updated take on one of the oldest LOLBINs
In my formative days of learning network hacking, SSH tunnelling was amongst the first tunnelling techniques that I learnt. I still remember trying to repeatedly decode my notes...
How to Handle Development Projects in a Pentest Company
If you are a pentester you probably never really think about programming. Instead you are testing what others have developed. However, every now and then a quick python or bash...
Advisory CVE-2020-13774 – Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager authenticated RCE via file upload
Improper validation on file upload functionality present in Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager’s web management console permits an authenticated user to upload .aspx files and execute them on the MS IIS server’s context. The issue is caused by insufficient file extension validation and insecure file operations on the uploaded image, which upon failure will leave the temporarily created files in an accessible location on the server.
Advisory CVE-2020-13770 – Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager named pipe token impersonation privilege escalation
Several services are accessing named pipes with default or overly permissive security attributes; as these services run as user ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’, the issue can be used to escalate privileges from a local standard or service account having SeImpersonatePrivilege (eg. user ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE’).
Advisory CVE-2020-13771 – Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager DLL search order hijacking privilege escalation
Various services running as user ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’ rely on Windows’ DLL search order for loading DLL files that are not present on the filesystem. Under certain circumstances, a local attacker would be able to place a malicious DLL file to obtain code execution in the vulnerable service’s context to elevate privileges.
Pwning Windows Event Logging with YARA rules
The Event Log coupled with Windows Event Forwarding and Sysmon can be extremely powerful in the hands of defenders, allowing them to detect attackers every step of the way. Obviously this is an issue for the attackers. Before privilege escalation it is limited what we can do to evade event logging, but once privileges have been elevated it is an equal playing field. In the past I have released a...
Defending Your Malware
Malware is an important part of an engagement, though as many security solutions are now evolving past rudimentary signature comparisons to using more advanced techniques to detect malicious activity, it is important that we as attackers understand the methods they are using and how we can avoid them. Consider the following code I wrote for example. #include <stdio.h> #include...
Thunder Eye – Threat Intelligence Aggregator
The project currently code-named Thunder Eye is a threat intelligence aggregator that will act as an internal and external search engine for a variety of intelligence purposes. It will collect and store data varying from vulnerability scans, DNS data, breach lists, torrent sites, honeypot networks, and some manually inserted data sourced from our threat hunting and incident response/SOC...
API Hooking Framework
An API hooking framework, composed by a Windows driver component for library injection, a DLL file for function hooking and reporting, and a web service presenting a user interface and managing the communications between the user and the other components.The framework is aimed towards desktop application testing and vulnerability research: allows a granular monitoring of one or more processes at...
shad0w
Post exploitation is large part of a red team engagement. While many organisations begin to mature and start to deploy a range of sophisticated Endpoint Detection & Response solutions (EDR) onto their networks, it requires us, as attackers to also mature. We need to upgrade our arsenal to give us the capabilities to successfully operate on their networks. That is why today, I am releasing shad0w.
shad0w is a post exploitation framework which is designed to operate covertly on such networks, providing the operator with much greater control over their engagements. Over future blog posts I will go into greater detail on the intricacies of how shad0w works. This blog post will, therefore, serve as an introduction into the usage and features that shad0w has to offer.
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