Leveraging INF-SCT Fetch & Execute Techniques For Bypass, Evasion, & Persistence

Introduction Over the last few weeks, I researched and tested a few interesting namespaces/methods documented on various Microsoft/MSDN sources that dealt with executing various COM scripts/scriptlets (e.g. VBscript, Jscript, etc.).  In particular, I was curious to see if there were potentially new ways to invoke remote scripts (ActiveX Objects) by leveraging some of the great […]

Vshadow: Abusing the Volume Shadow Service for Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction

[Source: blog.microsoft.com] What is Vshadow? Vshadow (vshadow.exe) is a command line utility for managing volume shadow copies.  This tool is included within the Windows SDK and is signed by Microsoft (more on this later). Vshadow has a lot of functionality, including the ability to execute scripts and invoke commands in support of volume shadow snapshot […]