Tag: PowerShellHacking

How Attackers Pull the Active Directory Database (NTDS.dit) from a Domain Controller

I performed extensive research on how attackers dump AD credentials, including pulling the Active Directory database (ntds.dit) remotely. This information is covered in two newer and greatly expanded posts: How Attackers Dump Active Directory Database Credentials Attack Methods for Gaining Domain Admin Rights in Active Directory   The original post data follows: How Attackers Pull …

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PowerShell for Pentesters

PowerShell is extremely useful for admins. This power is also extremely useful for attackers. There are several PowerShell tools specifically for increasing access on a network: PowerSploit PowerSploit – PowerShell based pentest tool set developed by Mattifestation. PowerSploit is a collection of Microsoft PowerShell modules that can be used to aid reverse engineers, forensic analysts, …

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Black Hat USA 2014 Presentation: Investigating PowerShell Attacks

Black Hat USA 2014 Presentation: Investigating PowerShell Attacks This is an excellent presentation and I highly recommend anyone who is an admin or who is responsible for AD security. Investigating PowerShell Attacks Ryan Kazanciyan Technical Director, Mandiant Matt Hastings Consultant, Mandiant Over the past two years, we’ve seen targeted attackers increasingly utilize PowerShell to conduct …

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Investigating PowerShell Attacks

PowerShell is a compelling method for attackers (and pentesters) since code is run in memory and there is no reason to touch disk (unlike executables, batch files, and vbscripts). Projects like PowerSploit and POSHSec prove that PowerShell is the future of attacks. PowerShell Magazine has a great article on Investigating PowerShell Attacks: Prior articles by …

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Hacking with PowerShell

Chinese hackers, aka “Deep Panda”, leverage PowerShell while compromising US think-tank computer systems. Recently, we detected breaches of these networks via the use of powershell scripts deployed by the adversary as scheduled tasks on Windows machines. The scripts are passed to the powershell interpreter through the command line to avoid placement of extraneous files on …

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