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• Articles
  • Malware Analysis
  • Tutorials
• Tools
  • AWS Security
  • Binary Analysis
  • Data Exfiltration
  • Digital Forensics and Incident Response
  • Exploits
  • Malware Analysis
  • Mobile Securtiy
  • Network
  • Plugins
  • Social Engineering
  • Vulnerable
  • Web Application Security
  • Windows

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Articles

Malware Analysis

• CCleaner's backdoor analysis
  • Protecting the Software Supply Chain: Deep Insights into the CCleaner Backdoor
  • In-Depth Analysis of the CCleaner Backdoor Stage 2 Dropper and Its Payload
• List of interesting Windows APIs used by malware

WNetAddConnection

The WNetAddConnection function enables the calling application to connect a local device to a network resource. A successful connection is persistent, meaning that the system automatically restores the connection during subsequent logon operations. An example of malware that implement this function can be found below: Icedid trojan in its network propagation function

• Malware analysis environment setup
  • Knowledge Fragment: Hardening Win7 x64 on VirtualBox for Malware Analysis

Tutorials

This section contains links about tool tutorials, cheat sheet and techniques.

American Fuzzy Lop	Fuzzing Apache httpd server with American Fuzzy Lop + persistent mode Fuzzing Irssi Fuzzing the MSXML6 library with WinAFL HACK THE HACKER – FUZZING MIMIKATZ ON WINDOWS WITH WINAFL & HEATMAPS (0DAY) How we found a tcpdump vulnerability using cloud fuzzing
Binary Ninja	2000 cuts with Binary Ninja Automated Opaque Predicate Removal Pin Visual Coverage Tool For Binary Ninja Untangling Exotic Architectures with Binary Ninja
BloodHound	Lay of the Land with BloodHound
Elasticsearch	A Practical Introduction to Elasticsearch
IDA Pro	IDA series, part 1: the Hex-Rays decompiler IDA series, part 2: debugging a .NET executable
Masscan	A Masscan Tutorial and Primer
osquery	Tracking a stolen code-signing certificate with osquery osquery Across the Enterprise
Splunk	The Windows Splunk Logging Cheat Sheet
Sysmon	Sysmon doing lines Mhaggis/sysmon-dfir
Radare2	A journey into Radare 2 – Part 1: Simple crackme A journey into Radare 2 – Part 2: Exploitation Emulating Assembly in Radare2 Pwnable.kr - Passcode radare2 as an alternative to gdb-peda
Volatility	Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 1): Image Identification Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 2): Processes and DLLs Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 3): Process Memory Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 4): Kernel Memory and Objects Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 5): Networking Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 6): Windows Registry Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 7): Analyze and convert crash dumps and hibernation files Volatility, my own cheatsheet (Part 8): Filesystem Using Yara rules with Volatility
WinDBG	Anti-Antidebugging WinDbg Scripts bulentrahimkazanci/Windbg-Cheat-Sheet WinDBG and JavaScript Analysis

Tools

AWS Security

Open source projects related to AWS security.

airbnb/BinaryAlert	BinaryAlert: Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection
cloudsploit/scans	AWS security scanning checks
nccgroup/Scout2	Security auditing tool for AWS environments
Netflix/security_monkey	Security Monkey monitors your AWS and GCP accounts for policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations.
Alfresco/prowler	Tool for AWS security assessment, auditing and hardening. It follows guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark.

Binary Analysis

Binary analysis tools, including decompilers, deobfuscators, disassemblers, etc.

fireeye/flare-floss	FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver - Automatically extract obfuscated strings from malware.
williballenthin/python-idb	Pure Python parser and analyzer for IDA Pro database files (.idb).

Data Exfiltration

Tools related to data exfiltration and covert channels

pentestpartners/PTP-RAT	Exfiltrate data over screen interfaces. For more information.
sensepost/DET	DET (is provided AS IS), is a proof of concept to perform Data Exfiltration using either single or multiple channel(s) at the same time.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Open source projects related to DFIR topic.

Invoke-IR/PowerForensics	PowerForensics provides an all in one platform for live disk forensic analysis
nannib/Imm2Virtual	This is a GUI (for Windows 64 bit) for a procedure to virtualize your EWF(E01), DD(Raw), AFF disk image file without converting it, directly with VirtualBox, forensically proof.
nshalabi/SysmonTools	Utilities for Sysmon (Sysmon View and Sysmon Shell)
THIBER-ORG/userline	Query and report user logons relations from MS Windows Security Events
TryCatchHCF/DumpsterFire	"Security Incidents In A Box!" A modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building customized, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support and scale their operations. Build event sequence…

Exploits

Interesting exploits. For research purpose only

CVE-2016-7255	The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607, and Windows Server 2016 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." IOActive/I-know-where-your-page-lives
CVE-2017-5123	The `waitid` implementation in upstream kernels did not restrict the target destination to copy information results. This can allow local users to write to otherwise protected kernel memory, which can lead to privilege escalation. nongiach/CVE
CVE-2017-7089	A logic issue existed in the handling of the parent-tab. This issue was addressed with improved state management. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting. Bo0oM/CVE-2017-7089
CVE-2017-7115	The exploit achieves R/W access to the host's physical memory. The password for the archive is "one_ring". This exploit has been tested on the iPhone 7, iOS 10.2 (14C92). To run the exploit against different devices or versions, the symbols must be adjusted. Apple: Multiple Race Conditions in PCIe Message Ring protocol leading to OOB Write and OOB Read
CVE-2017-8464	Windows Shell in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows local users or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .LNK file, which is not properly handled during icon display in Windows Explorer or any other application that parses the icon of the shortcut. aka "LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." CVE-2017-8464 - Microsoft Windows - '.LNK' Shortcut File Code Execution
CVE-2017-8759	Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7 allow an attacker to execute code remotely via a malicious document or application, aka ".NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." MyPython/exploit/CVE-2017-8759/CVE-2017-8759_exploit_rtf.py vysec/CVE-2017-8759 CVE-2017-8759 - Malware Sample
CVE-2017-11882	Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884. embedi/CVE-2017-11882 Sample of malware used CVE-2017-11882
CVE-2017-13082	Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11r allows reinstallation of the Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) Temporal Key (TK) during the fast BSS transmission (FT) handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to replay, decrypt, or spoof frames. the KRACK attack website KRACK attack research paper vanhoefm/krackttacks-test-ap-ft
FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories	The PHP Security Advisories Database references known security vulnerabilities in various PHP projects and libraries. This database must not serve as the primary source of information for security issues, it is not authoritative for any referenced software, but it allows to centralize information for convenience and easy consumption.
ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs	A list of my CVE's with POCs
spencerdodd/kernelpop	Kernel privilege escalation enumeration and exploitation framework
tunz/js-vuln-db	A collection of JavaScript engine CVEs with PoCs
victims/victims-cve-db	This database contains information regarding CVE(s) that affect various language modules. We currently store version information corresponding to respective modules as understood by select sources.
xairy/kernel-exploits	A bunch of proof-of-concept exploits for the Linux kernel

Malware Analysis

Tools related to malware analysis, malware development (for research purpose) and malware sample finding

adamkramer/rapid_env	Rapid deployment of Windows environment (files, registry keys, mutex etc) to facilitate malware analysis
Cryptam Document Scanner	Encrypted/obfuscated malicious document analyzer
DAS MALWERK	DAS MALWERK - your one stop shop for fresh malware samples
hasherezade/libpeconv/runpe	RunPE (aka Process Hollowing) is a well known technique allowing to injecting a new PE into a remote processes, imprersonating this process. The given implementation works for PE 32bit as well as 64bit.
IRIS-H	IRIS-H is an online digital forensics tool that performs automated static analysis of files stored in a directory-based or strictly structured formats.
katjahahn/PortEx	Java library to analyse Portable Executable files with a special focus on malware analysis and PE malformation robustness
LordNoteworthy/al-khaser	Public malware techniques used in the wild: Virtual Machine, Emulation, Debuggers, Sandbox detection.
nsmfoo/antivmdetection	Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make vm detection harder
OALabs/BlobRunner	Quickly debug shellcode extracted during malware analysis
quasar/QuasarRAT	Quasar is a fast and light-weight remote administration tool coded in C#. Providing high stability and an easy-to-use user interface, Quasar is the perfect remote administration solution for you.
GoSecure/malboxes	Builds malware analysis Windows VMs so that you don't have to.
SEKOIA Dropper Analysis	SEKOIA Dropper Analysis

Mobile Security

Tools related to mobile security, mobile application auditing/debugging and mobile penetration testing

dpnishant/appmon	AppMon is an automated framework for monitoring and tampering system API calls of native macOS, iOS and android apps. It is based on Frida.
Mobile X-Ray	Just upload your iOS or Android mobile app to start a DAST, SAST and behavioral audit for OWASP Mobile Top 10 and other vulnerabilities

Network

Network and network security related tools

michenriksen/aquatone

AQUATONE is a set of tools for performing reconnaissance on domain names. It can discover subdomains on a given domain by using open sources as well as the more common subdomain dictionary brute force approach. After subdomain discovery, AQUATONE can then scan the hosts for common web ports and HTTP headers, HTML bodies and screenshots can be gathered and consolidated into a report for easy analysis of the attack surface.

WireEdit

First-Of-A-Kind And The Only Full Stack WYSIWYG Pcap Editor

Password Tools

Tools related to password cracking, bruteforcing and also wordlists

fireeye/gocrack	GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.
sc0tfree/mentalist	Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper.
danielmiessler/SecLists	SecLists is the security tester's companion. It is a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data grep strings, fuzzing payloads, and many more.

Plugins

Plugins and extensions for tools

Burp Suite
lightbulb-framework/lightbulb-framework	LightBulb is an open source python framework for auditing web application firewalls and filters.
GDB
cs01/gdbgui	Browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Add breakpoints, view the stack, visualize data structures, and more in C, C++, Go, Rust, and Fortran. Run gdbgui from the terminal and a new tab will open in your browser.
cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard	Modular visual interface for GDB in Python
longld/peda	PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB
IDA Pro
gaasedelen/lighthouse	Lighthouse is a code coverage plugin for IDA Pro. The plugin leverages IDA as a platform to map, explore, and visualize externally collected code coverage data when symbols or source may not be available for a given binary.
hasherezade/ida_ifl	IFL - Interactive Functions List (plugin for IDA Pro)
onethawt/idaplugins-list	A list of IDA Plugins
WinDBG
comaeio/SwishDbgExt	Incident Response & Digital Forensics Debugging Extension
Microsoft/DbgShell	A PowerShell front-end for the Windows debugger engine.
swwwolf/wdbgark	WinDBG Anti-RootKit Extension

Social Engineering

Tools related to social engineering attack and human hacking

Undeadsec/EvilURL

An unicode domain phishing generator for IDN Homograph Attack

Vulnerable

Vulnerable software, application, VM for research purpose

cliffe/SecGen	SecGen creates vulnerable virtual machines so students can learn security penetration testing techniques.
Lenas Reversing for Newbies	Nice collection of tutorials aimed particularly for newbie reverse enginners...
Vulnerable Docker VM	Ever fantasized about playing with docker misconfigurations, privilege escalation, etc. within a container?

Web Application Security

Web application security tools

anatshri/svn-extractor	Simple script to extract all web resources by means of .SVN folder exposed over network.
IlluminateJs	IlluminateJs is a static javascript analysis engine (a deobfuscator so to say) aimed to help analyst understand obfuscated and potentially malicious JavaScript Code.
mazen160/bfac	BFAC (Backup File Artifacts Checker): An automated tool that checks for backup artifacts that may disclose the web-application's source code.

Windows

Tools for Windows only

api0cradle/UltimateAppLockerByPassList	The goal of this repository is to document the most common techniques to bypass AppLocker.
google/sandbox-attacksurface-analysis-tools	This is a small suite of tools to test various properties of sandboxes on Windows. Many of the checking tools take a -p flag which is used to specify the PID of a sandboxed process. The tool will impersonate the token of that process and determine what access is allowed from that location. Also it's recommended to run these tools as an administrator or local system to ensure the system can be appropriately enumerated.
hlldz/Invoke-Phant0m	Windows Event Log Killer
jonatan1024/clrinject	Injects C# EXE or DLL Assembly into every CLR runtime and AppDomain of another process.
sevagas/macro_pack	macro_pack is a tool used to automatize obfuscation and generation of MS Office documents for pentest, demo, and social engineering assessments. The goal of macro_pack is to simplify antimalware bypass and automatize the process from vba generation to final Office document generation.
Plazmaz/LNKUp	Generates malicious LNK file payloads for data exfiltration
secretsquirrel/SigThief	Stealing Signatures and Making One Invalid Signature at a Time