DiskShadow: The Return of VSS Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction

[Source: blog.microsoft.com] Introduction Not long ago, I blogged about Vshadow: Abusing the Volume Shadow Service for Evasion, Persistence, and Active Directory Database Extraction.  This tool was quite interesting because it was yet another utility to perform volume shadow copy operations, and it had a few other features that could potentially support other offensive use cases.  […]

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 […]

VSTO: The Payload Installer That Probably Defeats Your Application Whitelisting Rules

Introduction Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) “is a set of development tools available in the form of a Visual Studio add-in (project templates) and a runtime that allows Microsoft Office 2003 and later versions of Office applications to host the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) to expose their functionality via .NET” (Wikipedia).  For […]

ClickOnce (Twice or Thrice): A Technique for Social Engineering and (Un)trusted Command Execution

What is ClickOnce? ClickOnce is a “a Microsoft technology that enables the user to install and run a Windows-based smart client application by clicking a link in a web page” [Wikipedia].  Included as a component within the .NET Framework, ClickOnce allows a developer to create a web-enabled installer package for their (C#) Visual Studio project.  […]