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Offense in Depth

Offense in Depth. A Developer’s Perspective on Hacker Tradecraft. Overview. Introduction / Terminology How to get a foothold Identifying and Defeating Defenses. The Take Away…. If you know how something works … you can defeat it this applies to offense and defense. Who am I?.

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Offense in Depth

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  1. Offense in Depth A Developer’s Perspective on Hacker Tradecraft

  2. Overview • Introduction / Terminology • How to get a foothold • Identifying and Defeating Defenses

  3. The Take Away… If you know how something works… you can defeat it this applies to offense and defense

  4. Who am I? • Solo Entrepreneur (I sell red team software) • Armitage and Cobalt Strike Dev • Previously… • DARPA CFT Performer • Red Team Svc to DoD agency • WordPress grammar checker • USAF Security Researcher • Exercises • CDX, *CCDC, ISTS, etc. • Primary Skill: Developer

  5. The Take Away… If you know how something works… you can defeat it this applies to offense and defense

  6. Attack Surface • What can we, as attackers, manipulate or touch?

  7. Client-side Attacks • What is a client-side attack? • An attack against application used to view attacker controlled content. • Why client-side attacks?

  8. How to get a foothold • Map client-side attack surface • Create Virtual Machine for testing purposes • Use Virtual Machine to select best attack • Configure and disguise the attack • Email attack package to victim

  9. Reconnaissance: System Profiler • A web application (target must visit it) • Discovers client-side applications • Discovers internal IP address See: http://www.browserspy.dk

  10. Hacking with features?

  11. Features to abuse… • Java Signed Applet • Disguise Windows Executable • Microsoft Office Macros

  12. Spear Phishing • Create a target list • Create a template • Choose mail server to send through • Send the message…

  13. Spear Phishing Templates

  14. Templates Click Reply -> View message source

  15. Templates

  16. Sending the message… telnet [ip address]25 HELO whatever.com MAIL FROM: bounceaddress@whatever.com RCPT TO: [target email here] DATA [paste template file (remove headers first)] . QUIT

  17. Now, walk this minefield…

  18. Defenses • Mail Defenses • Host Anti-virus • Application Whitelisting • Egress • Payload Staging • Stay Low and Slow

  19. Sender Policy Framework • Defense verify senders IP to detect email spoofing • Attackget message to user regardless…

  20. Defeating SPF • Register a typo of domain of interest • Use a webmail provider and send attack from their servers • Spoof another domain

  21. Mail Anti-Virus Gateway • Defense check messages for bad stuff before delivery • Attacksend something that passes check

  22. Mail Defense Recon • Create anattack package • Send it to a non-existent user • Make sure MAIL FROM address is an address you control • Wait for non-delivery notice • Review non-delivery notice for your report card 

  23. Non-Delivery Notices

  24. Host Anti-virus • Defense check for known bad and stop it • Attacksend unknown bad that passes check

  25. Defeat Host Anti-virus • Find out or guess which anti-virus is in use • DNS Cache Snooping • Information Gathering • Social Engineering • Put anti-virus on test Virtual Machine • Select undetected attack or modify existing attack

  26. DNS Cache Snooping? See: http://tinyurl.com/rob-dixon-is-hot The command: dig @serverdomainA +norecurse

  27. How does Anti-virus work? • Check for known signature • Apply heuristic to detect bad behavior • Emulate binary to defeat packers and crypters

  28. Limitations • False positives are bad • Non-intrusive(?) • Only checks file at certain points • When loaded in browser • When written to disk

  29. Getting Past AV • Client-side Exploits… • Change strings in module • Write your own implementation of the attack

  30. Application Whitelisting • Defense do not allow unapproved applications • Attackget agent into memory using a white-listed application.

  31. Defeating App Whitelisting • Powershell • https://github.com/mattifestation/PowerSploit • MS Office Macro • Java • Create a DLL with your agent • Have program extract DLL • Call System.loadLibrary(“evil.dll”);

  32. Establish C2

  33. Establish C2

  34. Establish C2 – The Pain • Deny all outbound traffic • Allow egress only through a proxy device • Attack traffic must conform to expected protocol • Must pass other checks as well… • Attacker Limitation: Staging!

  35. Payload Staging…

  36. Payload Staging • Stage 1 • Must be small. Exploit used limits space • Encoded with Framework encoder • Stage 2 • Payload DLL goes over the wire as-is • Trivial to write IDS signature for

  37. Payload Staging

  38. Payload Staging • windows/meterpreter/reverse_https • Staging process happens over SSL • EnableStageEncoding and StageEncoder • Metasploit Framework option to encode stage

  39. Riddle me this… Batman

  40. Asynchronous C2 • Stay Low and slow • Target phones home, asks for tasks • Sleep time? 1 hour, 1 day, 1 year? • C2 tries to look like normal traffic • Life line into a network • Use to execute commands • Upload / download files • Spawn “active” sessions to another server

  41. Asynchronous C2 - Beacon

  42. Asynchronous C2 – Bro RAT See: http://tinyurl.com/bro-rat

  43. The Take Away… If you know how something works… you can defeat it this applies to offense and defense

  44. Summary…

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