2/ There exists a ton of different techniques of how attackers can relaying credentials to another host in order to raise their privileges or get a shell on the target server.
3/ @TrustedSec has written an excellent blog post about the different relaying techniques, how they work and which prerequisites have to be in place that the attack is successful. [1]
4/ "In order to assess the effectiveness of relaying attacks, we will need to learn more about our network environment. In order to succeed with ‘classic’ relaying attacks, some prerequisites must be met:
6/ There must be broadcast traffic in the environment. Classic examples of this are DNS replacement protocols like Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) and NetBIOS Name Resolution (NBT-NS)." [1]
7/ As you might have read the blog and realised that attackers (again!) have different techniques at hand, how can we protect our network against these techniques?
One solution is to enable SMB signing, as this will prevent relaying because all SMB traffic must be signed.
8/ We can not only enable SMB signing, but also LDAP signing.
And of course, disable Windows Proxy Auto Detection (WPAD) and LLMNR/NBNS (#PingCastle check).
1/ We recently had an interesting #Azure case where the TA, instead of creating a new Inbox Rule, added email addresses of interest to the list of blocked senders and domains.
The incoming emails will get flagged as spam and moved to the Junk email folder. 📂
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2/ Here is a screenshot from Outlook web access
(the view might differ, as, for example, here on the screenshot from the theitbros [1])
1/ Customer receives an email from a network monitoring device that a host is supposedly infected with a #CoinMiner. The Task Manager on the said system shows the following screenshot 🤕.
A story of an unpatched system, incorrect scoping, and 🍀. 🧵
1/ I used #AutoRuns v14.09 (GUI) in my lab setup but noticed that it failed to find (or display) the malware in the Startup folder, although the file is there (screenshot below).
I checked back and forth, searched manually for the file, and restarted the OS and AutoRuns.
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2/ With #Velociraptor, I ran the hunt Sysinternals.Autoruns, and with the CLI version of AutoRuns, the malware is found in the Startup folder.
3/ The same for the #Velociraptor hunt Sys.StartupItems.
1/ Real-World #PingCastle Finding #13: Allow log on locally
➡️ Domain Users are eligible to log into DC's 🤯🙈
"When you grant an account the Allow logon locally right, you are allowing that account to log on locally to all domain controllers in the domain." [1]
"If you do not restrict this user right to legitimate users who must log on to the console of the computer, unauthorized users could download and run malicious software to elevate their privileges." [1]
3/ I encountered this finding several times in our AD assessments, so you better check your settings in your domain right now (better safe than sorry 🔒).