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Ways to Detect and Mitigate PowerShell Attacks

August 1, 2017 Jeff Warren Comments 0 Comment

Detect and Mitigate PowerShell Attacks PowerShell has grown as an attack platform against Windows systems as a way for attackers to “live off the land” and use tools that are natively available. We’ve already looked at Empire, DeathStar, and CrackMapExec and how those tools leverage PowerShell to invoke Mimikatz and initiate other attacks. In this post, we will explore what you can do to detect and protect against PowerShell attacks. What’s So Great about PowerShell? There are several reasons attackers…

Automating Mimikatz with Empire and DeathStar

July 18, 2017 Jeff Warren Comments 0 Comment

Automating Mimikatz Mimikatz is a very powerful post-exploitation tool on its own, allowing attackers to harvest credentials and move laterally through a compromised organization. However, there are also several limitations to what Mimikatz can do by itself: If you have compromised a machine but do not have Administrator rights, you can’t access any credentials If PowerShell protections are enabled, Mimikatz can be easily prevented Stealing credentials and figuring out where they work can be a long and arduous process This…

Extracting User Password Data with Mimikatz DCSync

July 11, 2017 Jeff Warren Comments 8 comments

Introduction: Extracting User Password Data with Mimikatz DCSync Mimikatz provides a variety of ways to extract and manipulate credentials, but probably one of the most useful and scary ways is using the DCSync command. This attack simulates the behavior of a domain controller and asks other domain controllers to replicate information using the Directory Replication Service Remote Protocol (MS-DRSR). Basically, it lets you pretend to be a domain controller and ask for user password data. Most importantly, this can be done…