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Windows Initial Vector Series

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 9 August 2022

OneNote is one of the Office suite components which is often overlooked when RedTeaming. Though OneNote cannot execute VBA Macros, it has an important potential for phishing as an initial vector.

License : Copyright Emeric Nasi (@EmericNasi), Lance James, some rights reserved

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1. Foreword

OneNote is one of the Office suite components which is often overlooked when RedTeaming. Though OneNote (...)

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RedTeam With Publisher

Windows Initial Vector Series

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 28 April 2022

Microsoft Publisher is another tool of the Office suite which is often ignored when RedTeaming. This is a basic review of the great potential Publisher has for Offensive Security engagements.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

1. Foreword

Microsoft Publisher is another tool of the Office suite which is often ignored when RedTeaming.

However, it has been (...)

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MSDT DLL Hijack UAC bypass

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 2 February 2022

UAC Bypass via DLL hijacking of Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). The UAC bypass method described here is based on DLL hijacking which happens when loading the Bluetooth diagnostic package.

Note: This post requires some basic knowledge about Windows security and SysInternals toolsuit.

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1. Introduction

At the end of my talk at (...)

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Hide HTA window for RedTeam

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 15 July 2021

last modification on 22 November 2021

Short post to explain how to create a stealthy HTA file running without any window or taskbar mention. This can be used combined withe other techniques to create advanced payloads for redteaming/supply chain attacks.

License : Copyright Emeric Nasi (@EmericNasi), some rights reserved

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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I wrote this short post to explain how to create a stealthy HTA file that launches without any window or taskbar mention. (...)

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Launch shellcodes and bypass Antivirus using MacroPack Pro VBA payloads

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 21 January 2021

last modification on 22 November 2021

If you have ever been frustrated with manually writing Office/VBS payloads that ends up being detected by antivirus read this post!
MacroPack Pro provides multiple options and templates related to shellcode launch, these options enable to build VBA code which is not detected by most security solutions.
Let me show you how MacroPack Pro automatically generates Office, HTA, shortcut, etc. shellcode launcher payloads which bypass security solutions.

License : Copyright Emeric Nasi (@EmericNasi), some rights reserved

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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If you have ever been frustrated with manually writing Office/VBS payloads that ends up being detected by antivirus read this (...)

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Advanced MacroPack payloads: XLM Injection

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 18 September 2020

last modification on 22 November 2021

How it is possible to inject and run Excel 4.0 macro in memory from a non Excel format payload (ex Word, HTA, Help files,...). How to generate using MacroPack Pro.

License : Copyright Emeric Nasi (@EmericNasi), some rights reserved

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

1. About

While developing MacroPack Community and Pro version I have been searching for nice existing or new ways to generate (...)

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EXCEL 4.0 XLM macro in MacroPack Pro

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 18 September 2020

last modification on 22 November 2021

Excel 4.0 macro (also called XLM) have been commonly used by malicious operators these last years, it has also been analyzed and commented by several researches (red or blue). So I decided to add the support of this language for MacroPack Pro.

License : Copyright Emeric Nasi (@EmericNasi), some rights reserved

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

1. About

Excel 4.0 macro (also called XLM) have been commonly used by malicious operators these last years, it has also been (...)

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Code Injection - Weaponize GhostWriting Injection

Code injection series part 5

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 2 September 2020

Lets talk about this code injection technique called GhostWriting that works by manipulating the register states of the target process thread.

Prerequisites: This document requires some knowledge about Windows system programming. Also, it is mandatory to be familiar with concepts presented in Code injection series part 1.

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Bypass Defender and other thoughts on Unicode RTLO attacks

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 25 May 2020

I have been looking a bit into Unicode and Right-To-Left-Override phishing attacks lately. Mainly because I noticed that Windows Defender was detecting payloads generated with the "—unicode-rtlo" options of MacroPack...

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I. About

I have been looking a bit into Unicode and Right-To-Left-Override phishing attacks lately. Mainly because I noticed that (...)

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Code Injection - Disable Dynamic Code Mitigation (ACG)

Code injection series part 4

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 1 December 2019

How to disable Dynamic Code Mitigation Policy (ACG) to be able to inject code and deploy hooks into Microsoft Edge and others

Prerequisites: This document requires some knowledge about Windows system programming. Also, it is mandatory to be familiar with concepts presented in Code injection series part 1 and 2.

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Code Injection - Exploit WNF callback

Code injection series part 3

by Emeric Nasi

Article published on 1 December 2019

In this post I am going to take the WNF code injection method described in https://modexp.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/4083/, and generalize it to execute remote code that was injected into any process.

Prerequisites: This document requires some knowledge about Windows system programming. Also, it is mandatory to be familiar with concepts presented in Code injection series part 1.

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PE injection explained

Built the program and started it up. It shows the message and everything but idk if injection (...)

Modify any Java class field using reflection.

how to change the order of the private data variable?

Rogue WiFi Access point

Thanks for sharing, What is the content of this file, pls.... dhcpd_ap.conf ;)

Bypass Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction

Would you be willing to point me in the direction of some resources on registering rogue COM (...)

Yes it does. It just tested it successfully last month on Windows 10 64bit. I might probably (...)

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