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AADInternals: The Ultimate Azure AD Hacking Toolkit – Nestori Syynimaa
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AADInternals: The Ultimate Azure AD Hacking Toolkit – Nestori Syynimaa
Title:
AADInternals: The Ultimate Azure AD Hacking Toolkit
Presenter:
Nestori Syynimaa
Abstract:
AADInternals is an open-source hacking toolkit for Azure AD and Microsoft 365, having over 14,000 downloads from the PowerShell gallery. It has over 230 different functions in 15 categories for various purposes. The most famous ones are related to Golden SAML attacks: you can export AD FS token signing certificates remotely, forge SAML tokens, and impersonate users w/ MFA bypass. These techniques have been used in multiple attacks during the last two years, including Solorigate and other NOBELIUM attacks. AADInternals also allows you to harvest credentials, export Azure AD Connect passwords and modify numerous Azure AD / Office 365 settings not otherwise possible. The latest update can extract certificates and impersonate Azure AD joined devices allowing bypassing device based conditional access rules. https://o365blog.com/aadinternals/ https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0677
Biography:
Dr Nestori Syynimaa is a white hat hacker working as a Senior Principal Security Researcher at Secureworks CTU. He holds Microsoft MVP and MVR awards and has published and maintained AADInternals since 2018.
Access Undenied on AWS – Noam Dahan
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Access Undenied on AWS – Noam Dahan
Title:
Access Undenied on AWS
Presenter:
Noam Dahan
Abstract:
Access Undenied on AWS analyzes AWS CloudTrail AccessDenied events – it scans the environment to identify and explain the reasons for which access was denied. When the reason is an explicit deny statement, AccessUndenied identifies the exact statement. When the reason is a missing allow statement, AccessUndenied offers a least-privilege policy that facilitates access.
Biography:
Noam Dahan is a Senior Security Researcher at Ermetic with several years of experience in embedded security. He is a graduate of the Talpiot program at the Israel Defense Forces and spent several years in the 8200 Intelligence Corps. While this is his first time presenting at DEF CON, it is not his first time in front of a crowd. Noam was a competitive debater and is a former World Debating Champion.
alsanna – Jason Johnson
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alsanna – Jason Johnson
alsanna, a command-line based intercepting proxy for arbitrary TCP traffic.
Title:
alsanna
Presenter:
Jason Johnson
Abstract:
alsanna is a command-line based intercepting proxy for arbitrary TCP traffic. It includes built-in support for decrypting TLS streams, and allows editing the stream as it passes over the network. It is deliberately lightweight and documented to help hackers who need to modify its behavior. This demo will include live instances of the tool which can be used by visitors, live support for anyone looking to learn how to use alsanna, and a short on-demand walkthrough for visitors, covering how the tool works and what you need to know to modify it.
Biography:
Jason has been hacking for years, getting great satisfaction from peeling back layers of abstraction. He enjoys working on network security and machine learning. He’s been to two DEF CONs in the past, and loved every minute of them. He is currently employed by WithSecure and based out of upstate New York.
AWSGoat: A Damn Vulnerable AWS Infrastructure – Jeswin, Sanjeev
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Title:
AWSGoat : A Damn Vulnerable AWS Infrastructure
Presenter:
Jeswin Mathai, Sanjeev Mahunta
Abstract:
Compromising an organization’s cloud infrastructure is like sitting on a gold mine for attackers. And sometimes, a simple misconfiguration or a vulnerability in web applications, is all an attacker needs to compromise the entire infrastructure. Since cloud is relatively new, many developers are not fully aware of the threatscape and they end up deploying a vulnerable cloud infrastructure. When it comes to web application pentesting on traditional infrastructure, deliberately vulnerable applications such as DVWA and bWAPP have helped the infosec community in understanding the popular web attack vectors. However, at this point in time, we do not have a similar framework for the cloud environment. In this talk, we will be introducing AWSGoat, a vulnerable by design infrastructure on AWS featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and ECS. AWSGoat mimics real-world infrastructure but with added vulnerabilities. The idea behind AWSGoat is to provide security enthusiasts and pen-testers with an easy to deploy/destroy vulnerable infrastructure where they can learn how to enumerate cloud applications, identify vulnerabilities, and chain various attacks to compromise the AWS account. The deployment scripts will be open-source and made available after the talk.
Biography:
Jeswin Mathai is a Senior Security Researcher at INE. Prior to joining INE, He was working as a senior security researcher at Pentester Academy (Acquired by INE). At Pentester Academy, he was also part of the platform engineering team who was responsible for managing the whole lab infrastructure. He has published his work at DEFCON China, RootCon, Blackhat Arsenal, and Demo labs (DEFCON). He has also been a co-trainer in classroom trainings conducted at Black Hat Asia, HITB, RootCon, OWASP NZ Day. He has a Bachelor degree from IIIT Bhubaneswar. He was the team lead at InfoSec Society IIIT Bhubaneswar in association with CDAC and ISEA, which performed security auditing of government portals, conducted awareness workshops for government institutions. His area of interest includes Cloud Security, Container Security, and Web Application Security.
Sanjeev Mahunta is a Cloud Software Engineer at INE with a strong background in web, mobile application design and has high proficiency in AWS. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Amity University Rajasthan. He has 2+ years of experience building front-end applications for the web and implementing ERP solutions. Having interned at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), he has acquired neat skills in application development. His areas of interest include Web Application Security, Serverless Application Deployment, System Design and Cloud.
AzureGoat: Damn Vulnerable Azure Infrastructure – Nishant, Rachna Learn/teach/practice Azure pentesting.
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Title:
AzureGoat: Damn Vulnerable Azure Infrastructure
Presenter:
Nishant Sharma Rachna Umraniya
Abstract:
Microsoft Azure cloud has become the second-largest vendor by market share in the cloud infrastructure providers (as per multiple reports), just behind AWS. There are numerous tools and vulnerable applications available for AWS for the security professional to perform attack/defense practices, but it is not the case with Azure. There are far fewer options available to the community. AzureGoat is our attempt to shorten this gap by providing a ready-to-deploy vulnerable setup (vulnerable application + misconfigured Azure components + multiple attack paths) that can be used to learn/teach/practice Azure cloud environment pentesting.
Biography:
Nishant Sharma is a Security Research Manager at INE, where he manages the development of next-generation on-demand labs. Before INE, he worked as R&D Head of Pentester Academy (Acquired by INE), where he led a team of developers/researchers to create content and platform features for AttackDefense. He has also developed multiple gadgets for WiFi pentesting/monitoring such as WiMonitor, WiNX, and WiMini. With over 9+ years of experience in development and content creation, he has conducted trainings/workshops at Blackhat Asia/USA, HITB Amsterdam/Singapore, OWASP NZ day, and DEFCON USA villages. He has presented/published his work at Blackhat USA/Asia Arsenal, DEFCON USA/China, Wireless Village, Packet Village and IoT village. He has also conducted WiFi Pentesting training at Blackhat USA 2019, 2021. He had started his career as a firmware developer at Mojo Networks (Acquired by Arista) where he worked on new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintenance of state-of-the-art WIPS. He has a Master degree in Information Security from IIIT Delhi. He has also published peer-reviewed academic research on HMAC security. His areas of interest include WiFi, Azure, and Container security.
Rachana Umaraniya is a Cloud Developer at INE and has two years of experience in software development. She specializes in building applications with Java frameworks and is well versed with databases. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from NIT Hamirpur. Her area of interest includes cloud security, cryptography, web application, and docker security.
Badrats: Initial Access Made Easy – Kevin, Dominic
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Title:
Badrats: Initial Access Made Easy
Presenter:
Kevin Clark Dominic “Cryillic†Cunningham
Abstract:
Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are one of the defining tradecraft for identifying an Advanced Persistent Threat. The reason being is that APTs typically leverage custom toolkits for gaining initial access, so they do not risk burning full-featured implants. Badrats takes characteristics from APT Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and implements them into a custom Command and Control (C2) tool with a focus on initial access and implant flexibility. The key goal is to emulate that modern threat actors avoid loading fully-featured implants unless required, instead opting to use a smaller staged implant. Badrats implants are written in various languages, each with a similar yet limited feature set. The implants are designed to be small for antivirus evasion and provides multiple methods of loading additional tools, such as shellcode, .NET assemblies, PowerShell, and shell commands on a compromised host. One of the most advanced TTPs that Badrats supports is peer-to-peer communications over SMB to allow implants to communicate through other compromised hosts.
Biography:
Kevin Clark is a Software Developer turned Pentester at TrustedSec. He focuses on initial access and active directory exploitation. Kevin contributes to open-source tools such as PowerShell Empire and publishes custom security toolkits such as Badrats and WindowsBinaryReplacements. Kevin authors a cybersecurity blog at https://henpeebin.com/kevin/blog .
Dominic “Cryillic†Cunningham is a Red Team Content Engineer for TryHackMe, a large cybersecurity education platform. He is currently pursuing a degree in computing security with a focus in digital forensics and malware. His work includes general adversary emulation, offensive operations, and evasion. He specializes in researching and documentation of Evasion Techniques, Windows Internals, and Active Directory. Most of his work and research has been published at https://www.tryhackme.com , where he has also developed and released numerous CTF boxes and enterprise-level ranges.
Control Validation Compass – Threat Modeling Aide & Purple Team Content Repo – Scott Small
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Control Validation Compass – Threat Modeling Aide & Purple Team Content Repo – Scott Small
Title:
Control Validation Compass – Threat Modeling Aide & Purple Team Content Repo – Scott Small
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Presenter:
Scott Small
Abstract:
Control Validation Compass ("Control Compass") provides a needed public resource that enables cyber security teams to actually operationalize MITRE ATT&CK for its best purpose: prioritized control validation. Control Compass unites tens of thousands of detection rules, offensive security scripts, and policy recommendations from 60+ open sources – all aligned with MITRE ATT&CK – into the largest single, continuously updated reference library for such content, wrapped in an easily searchable interface. This saves defenders, red teamers, and intel & GRC analysts serious time & effort when researching content for purple teaming efforts (aka control validation). Like its input components and sources, Control Compass resource sets are openly available to all, no strings attached. Control Compass supports a powerful second use case informed by its author’s experience advising security & intelligence teams across maturity levels: the tool also provides a library of unique, openly available threat landscape summaries organized by key adversary categories, including motivation, location, and victim industry. By enabling easy identification of relevant threat intelligence – and a simple UI-based workflow to instantly surface corresponding security controls – Control Compass greatly lowers the barrier to building accurate, intelligence-driven threat models and helps drive tighter control validation feedback loops around the threats that matter most to a given organization.
Biography:
Scott Small has over 10 years’ professional experience as a security & intelligence practitioner. Currently an analyst at a major retailer, Scott’s prior roles focused on advising security teams across maturity levels on technical and strategic applications of intelligence. Scott is an active member of the professional security & intelligence communities. In addition to speaking and contributing to community projects, he has launched two projects that aggregate and streamline publicly accessible intelligence/security resources, as well as authored his own original tools & resources.
CyberPeace Builders – Adrien Ogee
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CyberPeace Builders – Adrien Ogee
Pro hackers who volunteer to help NGOs improve their cybersecurity.
Title:
CyberPeace Builders
Presenter:
Adrien Ogee
Abstract:
The CyberPeace Builders are pro hackers who volunteer to help NGOs improve their cybersecurity. Through a portal that I’ll demo, hackers can access a variety of short engagements, from 1 to 4 hours, to provide targeted cybersecurity help to NGOs on topics ranging from staff awareness to DMARC implementation, password management and authentication practices, breach notification, OSINT and dark web monitoring, all the way to designing a cyber-related poster for the staff, reviewing their privacy policy and cyber insurance papers. The programme is the world’s first and only skills-based volunteering opportunity for professionals in the cybersecurity industry; it has been prototyped over 2 years, was launched in July 2021 and is now being used by over 60 NGOs worldwide, ultimately helping to protect over 350 million vulnerable people and $500 million in funds. I’ll demo the platform, show the type of help NGOs need and explain how NGOs and security professionals can leverage the programme.
Biography:
Adrien is currently Chief Operations Officer at the CyberPeace Institute, a cybersecurity non-profit based in Switzerland. At the Institute, he provides cybersecurity assistance to vulnerable communities around the world. Adrien has more than 15 years of experience in various cyber crisis response roles in the private sector, the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), the European Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA), and the World Economic Forum. Adrien holds an MEng in telecommunication and information systems, an MSc in Global Security and a Master in Business Administration.
Defensive 5G – Eric Mair, Ryan Ashley A 4.5G/5G test infrastructure using COTS hardware and OS software.
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Defensive 5G – Eric Mair, Ryan Ashley
A 4.5G/5G test infrastructure using COTS hardware and OS software.
Title:
Defensive 5G
Presenter:
Eric Mair Ryan Ashley
Abstract:
In this work we developed a 4.5G/5G network using only commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware and open-source software to serve as test-infrastructure for studying vulnerabilities in 5G networks. We are using software defined networking (SDN) tools such as Faucet and Dovesnap and software defined radio(SDR) capabilities such as Open5gs and srsRAN along with Docker Containers to facilitate the rapid and reliable setup and configuration of network topologies that can be used to represent the 5G networks that we intend to test. By having a configurable and repeatable mechanism that could be shared among multiple users with differing hardware setups we were able to test 5G network configurations in a variety of ways and have those results validated by other team members.
Biography:
Eric Mair has been working in wireless communications for over 20 years and is currently working for In- Q-Tel Labs in Arlington, VA as a senior communications-technologist focusing on 5G, SDR and the application of machine-learning to RF communications. Prior to IQT he was with the US Government for 19 years.
Ryan Ashley is currently a senior software-engineer at In-Q-Tel Labs. He is responsible for architecture, design, and implementation of open-source tools for analysis and visualization of network activity and other cyber-security use-cases. He is the primary maintainer of the IQT-Labs project NetworkML, and is a contributor to various other open-source projects.
EDR detection mechanisms and bypass techniques with EDRSandBlast – Thomas Diot, Maxime Meignan
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EDR detection mechanisms and bypass techniques with EDRSandBlast – Thomas Diot, Maxime Meignan
Title:
EDR detection mechanisms and bypass techniques with EDRSandBlast
Presenter:
Thomas Diot, Maxime Meignan
Abstract:
EDRSandBlast is a tool written in C that implements and industrializes known as well as original bypass techniques to make EDR evasion easier during adversary simulations. Both user-land and kernel-land EDR detection capabilities can be bypassed, using multiple unhooking techniques and a vulnerable signed driver to unregister kernel callbacks and disable the ETW Threat Intelligence provider. Since the initial release, multiple improvements have been implemented in EDRSandBlast: it is now possible to use this toolbox as a library from another attacking tool, new bypasses have been implemented, the embedded vulnerable driver is now interchangeable to increase stealthiness and the use of a pre-built offsets database is no more required! Come discover our tool and its new features, learn (or teach us!) something about EDRs and discuss about the potential improvements to this project.
Biography:
Thomas Diot (Qazeer) is a security consultant at Wavestone, an independent French consulting firm. His work involves a mix of penetration testing, Red / Purple Teams engagements, and Incident Responses with Wavestone CERT-W. Thomas enjoys practicing and improving his skills by playing in CTFs, developing tools, and working on various security projects.
Maxime Meignan (@th3m4ks) is a security consultant at Wavestone, based in Paris, since the middle of the last decade. Loving to reverse engineer binaries in both professional and CTF contexts, Maxime has an IDA sticker on the back of his smartphone. And writes this uninteresting fact in his bio. He is currently interested in various fields of security, related to EDR software, Windows internals and Virtualisation Based Security.
EMBA – Open-Source Firmware Security Testing – Messner, Eckmann
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EMBA – Open-Source Firmware Security Testing – Messner, Eckmann
Simplify, optimize and automate analysis
Title:
EMBA – Open-Source Firmware Security Testing
Presenter:
Michael Messner, Pascal Eckmann
Abstract:
Penetration testing of current embedded devices is quite complex as we have to deal with different architectures, optimized operating systems and special protocols. EMBA is an open-source firmware analyzer with the goal to simplify, optimize and automate the complex task of firmware security analysis.
Biography:
Michael Messner: As a security researcher and penetration tester, I have more than 10 years of experience in different penetration testing areas. In my current position, I’m focused on hacking embedded devices used in critical environments.
Pascal Eckmann: As a security researcher and developer, I have worked on several internal and Open-Source projects in the areas of fuzzing, firmware analysis and web development. In addition to automated firmware analysis, I have experience in various penetration testing areas including hardware and wireless communication.
Empire 4.0 and Beyond – V. Rose, A. Rose
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Empire 4.0 and Beyond – V. Rose, A. Rose
C2 framework in Python 3 for Windows, Linux, macOS exploitation
Title:
Empire 4.0 and Beyond
Presenter:
Vincent "Vinnybod" Rose, Anthony "Cx01N" Rose
Abstract:
Empire is a Command and Control (C2) framework powered by Python 3 that supports Windows, Linux, and macOS exploitation. It has evolved significantly since its introduction in 2015 and has become one of the most widely used open-source C2 platforms. Starting life as PowerShell Empire and later merging in Empyre, Empire is now a full-fledged .NET C2 leveraging PowerShell, Python, C#, and Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) agents. It offers a flexible modular architecture that links Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) through the MITRE ATT&CK database. The framework aims to provide a flexible and easy-to-use interface to easily incorporate a wide array of tools into a single platform for red team operations to emulate APTs. This presentation will explore our most recent upgrades in Empire 4.0, including C# and IronPython agents, Customizable Bypasses, Malleable HTTP C2, Donut Integration, Beacon Object File (BoF), and much more. In addition, our team will be giving a preview of Empire 5.0 and its features. The most exciting of these being the brand-new web client (Starkiller 2.0) and v2 API, which will be released later this year.
Biography:
Vincent "Vinnybod" Rose is the lead developer for Empire and Starkiller. He is a software engineer with experience in cloud services, large-scale web applications, build pipeline automation, and big data ETL. Vinnybod has presented at Black Hat and has taught courses at DEF CON on Red Teaming and Offensive PowerShell. He currently maintains a cybersecurity blog focused on offensive security at https://www.bc-security.org/blog/ .
Anthony "Cx01N" Rose, CISSP, is a Security Researcher and Chief Operating Officer at BC Security, where he specializes in adversary tactic emulation planning, Red and Blue Team operations, and embedded systems security. He has presented at numerous security conferences, including Black Hat, DEF CON, and RSA conferences. Anthony is the author of various offensive security tools, including Empire and Starkiller, which he actively develops and maintains. He is recognized for his work, revealing widespread vulnerabilities in Bluetooth devices and is the co-author of a cybersecurity blog at https://www.bc-security.org/blog/ .
FISSURE: The RF Framework – Christopher Poore
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FISSURE: The RF Framework – Christopher Poore
An open-source RF and reverse engineering framework.
Title:
FISSURE: The RF Framework
Presenter:
Christopher Poore
Abstract:
FISSURE is an open-source RF and reverse engineering framework designed for all skill levels with hooks for signal detection and classification, protocol discovery, attack execution, IQ manipulation, vulnerability analysis, automation, and AI/ML. The framework was built to promote the rapid integration of software modules, radios, protocols, signal data, scripts, flow graphs, reference material, and third-party tools. FISSURE is a workflow enabler that keeps software in one location and allows teams to effortlessly get up to speed while sharing the same proven baseline configuration for specific Linux distributions. The framework and tools included with FISSURE are designed to detect the presence of RF energy, understand the characteristics of a signal, collect and analyze samples, develop transmit and/or injection techniques, and craft custom payloads or messages. FISSURE contains a growing library of protocol and signal information to assist in identification, packet crafting, and fuzzing. Online archive capabilities exist to download signal files and build playlists to simulate traffic and test systems.
Biography:
Chris Poore is a Senior Reverse Engineer at Assured Information Security in Rome, NY. He has expertise discovering vulnerabilities in wireless systems, gaining access to systems via RF, reverse engineering RF protocols, forensically testing cybersecurity systems, and administering RF collection events. He has been the main figure behind the design and implementation of FISSURE since its inception in 2014. Chris is excited about implementing ideas drawn from the community and taking advantage of increased networking opportunities, so please reach out to him.
hls4ml – Open Source Machine Learning Accelerators on FPGAs – Hawks, Meza
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hls4ml – Open Source Machine Learning Accelerators on FPGAs – Hawks, Meza
An open-source Python package.
Title:
hls4ml – Open Source Machine Learning Accelerators on FPGAs
Presenter:
Ben Hawks, Andres Meza
Abstract:
Born from the high energy physics community at the Large Hadron Collider, hls4ml is an open-source Python package for machine learning inference in FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). It creates firmware implementations of machine learning algorithms by translating traditional, open-source machine learning package models into optimized high level synthesis C++ that can then be customized for your use case and implemented on devices such as FPGAs and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Hls4ml can easily scale the implementation of a model to take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities that FPGAs offer, not only allowing for low latency, high throughput designs, but also designs sized to fit on lower cost, resource constrained hardware. Hls4ml also supports generating accelerators with different drivers that build minimal, self-contained implementations which enable control via Python or C/C++ with little extra development or hardware expertise.
Biography:
Ben Hawks is an AI Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, focusing on optimizing and compressing neural networks to be tiny, fast, and accurate for use on FPGAs and other specialized hardware. Since he was young, he’s had a personal interest in computer security, programming, and electronics, and is interested in learning how to make machine learning fair, efficient, and fast. Outside of work, he spends his time messing with electronics, tabletop RPGs, and catering to the whims of a small feline overlord.
Andres Meza is a research and development engineer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received a B.S. Computer Science and a B.S. Cognitive Science with a Machine Learning and Neural Computation Specialization from UCSD in 2020. His current research focuses on hardware security, optimization of ML models for hardware deployment, and computer vision.
Injectyll-HIDe: Pushing the Future of Hardware Implants to the Next Level – Fischer, Miller
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Injectyll-HIDe: Pushing the Future of Hardware Implants to the Next Level – Fischer, Miller
Title:
Injectyll-HIDe: Pushing the Future of Hardware Implants to the Next Level
Presenter:
Jonathan Fischer, Jeremy Miller
Abstract:
Enterprises today are shifting away from dedicated workstations, and moving to flexible workspaces with shared hardware peripherals. This creates the ideal landscape for hardware implant attacks; however, implants have not kept up with this shift. While closed source, for-profit solutions exist and have seen some recent advances in innovation, they lack the customization to adapt to large targeted deployments. Open-source projects exist but focus more on individual workstations (dumb keyboards/terminals) relying on corporate networks for remote control. Our solution is an open source, hardware implant which adopts IoT technologies, using non-standard channels to create a remotely managed mesh network of hardware implants. Attendees will learn how to create a new breed of open-source hardware implants. Topics covered in this talk include the scaling of implants for enterprise takeover, creating and utilizing a custom C2 server, a reverse shell that survives screen lock, and more. They will also leave with a new platform from which to innovate custom implants. Live demos will be used to show these new tactics against real world infrastructure. This talk builds off of previous implant talks but will show how to leverage new techniques and technologies to push the innovation of hardware implants forward evolutionarily.
Biography:
Jonathan Fischer is a hardware and IoT security enthusiast that started off designing, programming, and implementing electronic controls for industrial control systems and off-highway machinery. After a decade in that industry, Jonathan obtained his BS in Computer Science and transitioned over to the cyber security industry where he has been working as a Red Team consultant and researcher for more than five years at a Fortune 500. Since joining the cyber security industry, Jonathan has since earned various industry certifications (OSCP, GPEN, etc.) and continues to leverage his unique experience in his research into hardware hacking.
Jeremy Miller is a 12+ year security professional that has worked in various industries including life-sciences, finance, and retail. Jeremy has worked both sides of the security spectrum ranging from Security Research, Red Teaming and Penetration Testing to Threat Intelligence and SOC Analyst. Jeremy currently works as a Security Technical Lead for an emerging R&D Life Science Platform where he works on product and infrastructure security.
Memfini – A systemwide memory monitor interface for linux – Shubham Dubey, Rishal Dwivedi
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Memfini – A systemwide memory monitor interface for linux – Shubham Dubey, Rishal Dwivedi
Title:
Memfini – A systemwide memory monitor interface for linux
Presenter:
Shubham Dubey, Rishal Dwivedi
Abstract:
Surprisingly, memory related events logging has been ignored by monitoring tool’s authors since a long time. There are multiple event loggers present for Linux that are capable of monitoring processes, i/o operations, function calls or whole systemwide events. But something which lacks in most is global monitoring of memory related events like allocation, attachment to a shared memory, memory allocation in foreign process etc. This has many applications in security domain or even software engineering in general. The main area of focus or use case for Memfini is to assist Security professionals for carrying out memory specific Dynamic Malware Analysis, in order to help them in finding indicators for malicious activities without reversing the behavior. Below listed are few of the use cases (which we will also be demonstrating in the talk). • Process Injection • Fileless malware execution • Shellcode Execution • Malicious shared memory usage On the other hand, it can also be helpful for Software developers, who wish to have an eagle eye on the memory allocations • Finding Memory Leaks • Error detection for debugging purposes. The is possible as Memfini is capable of monitoring memory allocations on User space, Kernel space as well as some under looked allocations like PCI device mapping, DMA allocations etc. It provides a command line interface with multiple filters, allowing a user to interact with the logs generated & get the required data. Currently, the user will be able to filter the events by individual process, type of access etc.
Biography:
Shubham is a Security Researcher 2 at Microsoft where he works for Microsoft’s defender product. His expertise lies in low level security and internals which includes reverse engineering, exploitation and firmware security. Prior to joining Microsoft, Shubham was Security researcher at Antivirus company working in exploit prevention team where he contributed to protect customers from 0days and vulnerabilities in the wild. Shubham has worked on multiple independent project on kernel level and firmware security. He own a security blog nixhacker.com where you will find lots of content on low level security and internals.
Rishal is a Security Researcher at Microsoft where he works for Microsoft’s defender product. His expertise lies in Offensive security which includes vulnerability discovery and exploitation, owning multiple CVE’s. Prior to joining Microsoft, Rishal was a Sr. Security researcher at company where he contributed to their Web Application Security product. Rishal gained fame in bug bounty at an early age of 13 years. After contributing to Application Security for multiple years, he went on to explore other domains of security including IOT security and Malware Analysis.
Mercury – David McGrew, Brandon Enright
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Mercury – David McGrew, Brandon Enright
Open source package for network metadata extraction & analysis
Title:
Mercury
Presenter:
David McGrew, Brandon Enright
Abstract:
Mercury is an open source package for network metadata extraction and analysis. It reports session metadata including fingerprint strings for TLS, QUIC, HTTP, DNS, and many other protocols. Mercury can output JSON or PCAP. Designed for large scale use, it can process packets in real time at 40Gbps on server-class commodity hardware, using Linux native zero-copy high performance networking. The Mercury package includes tools for analyzing PKIX/X.509 certificates and finding weak keys, and for analyzing fingerprints with destination context using a naive Bayes classifier.
Biography:
David McGrew leads research and development into the detection of threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks using network data. He designed authenticated encryption algorithms and protocols, most notably GCM and Secure RTP, and he is a Fellow at Cisco Systems.
Brandon Enright is a lead DIFR investigator for Cisco CSIRT, an expert at DNS and network data analysis, and a contributor to Nmap and other open source projects.
OpenTDF – Paul Flynn, Cassandra Bailey
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OpenTDF – Paul Flynn, Cassandra Bailey
Build data protections using the Trusted Data Format
Title:
OpenTDF
Presenter:
Paul Flynn, Cassandra Bailey
Abstract:
OpenTDF is an open source project that provides developers with the tools to build data protections natively within their applications using the Trusted Data Format (TDF).
Biography:
Paul has been a software developer for over 25 years, starting as a webmaster in 1995. Paul has worked on securely connecting merchants with banking mainframes; providing governments with digital signing and receipting of documents, and solved Y2K. He has helped scale some of the largest web sites of its time (eBay, Obamacare) and worked on command-and-control systems of life-saving McMurdo beacons. Paul has recognized the deficiency of security from his past and is proud of the solution that is available in OpenTDF.
Cassandra started her career as a full-stack developer for web and macOS applications, and has since managed projects and products in the DeFi, gaming, and most recently, data protection and security spaces. The latter corresponds to her role in helping to develop and manage the OpenTDF project, an open-source API and SDK that leverages the Trusted Data Format (TDF) to enable zero-trust data protection.
Packet Sender – Dan Nagle
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Packet Sender – Dan Nagle
Toolkit to troubleshoot and reverse engineer network-based devices
Title:
Packet Sender
Presenter:
Dan Nagle
Abstract:
Packet Sender is a free open-source (GPLv2) cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) tool used daily by security researchers, college students, and professional developers to troubleshoot and reverse engineer network-based devices. Its core features are crafting and listening for UDP, TCP, and SSL/TLS packets via IPv4 or IPv6. It can listen simultaneously on any number of ports while sending to any UDP, TCP, SSL/TLS packet server. It is available for direct download or through the Winget, Homebrew, Debian, or Snap repos.
Biography:
Dan Nagle has over 15 years of software development experience. He has written and published apps for desktop, mobile, servers, and embedded. He is the author and inventor of Packet Sender, an app used daily by security researchers, featured in manuals from major tech companies, and is taught in universities around the world. He is also the author of 2 network-related patents and a book published by CRC Press. His open source contributions have received international awards, and he has presented at many developer conferences about them.
PCILeech and MemProcFS – Ulf Frisk, Ian Vitek
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PCILeech and MemProcFS – Ulf Frisk, Ian Vitek
A direct memory access attack toolkit.
Title:
PCILeech and MemProcFS
Presenter:
Ulf Frisk, Ian Vitek
Abstract:
The PCILeech direct memory access attack toolkit was presented at DEF CON 24 and quickly became popular amongst red teamers and game hackers alike. We will demonstrate how to take control of still vulnerable systems with PCIe DMA code injection using affordable FPGA hardware and the open source PCILeech toolkit. MemProcFS is memory forensics and analysis made super easy! Analyze memory by clicking on files in a virtual file system or by using the API. Analyze memory dump files or live memory acquired using drivers or PCILeech PCIe FPGA hardware devices.
Biography:
Ulf is a pentester by day, and a security researcher by night. Ulf is the author of the PCILeech direct memory access attack toolkit and MemProcFS. Ulf is interested in things low-level and primarily focuses on memory analysis and DMA.
Ian Vitek has a background as a pentester but now works with information security in the Swedish financial sector. Ian has held several presentations at DEF CON, BSidesLV and other IT security conferences.
PMR – PT & VA Management & Reporting – Alanazi, Bin Muatred
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PMR – PT & VA Management & Reporting – Alanazi, Bin Muatred
A collaboration platform for pentesting.
Title:
PMR – PT & VA Management & Reporting
Presenter:
Abdul Alanazi Musaed Bin Muatred
Abstract:
PMR (PTVA Management & Reporting) is an open-source collaboration platform that closes the gap between InfoSec Technical teams and Management in all assessment phases, from planning to reporting. Technical folks can focus on assessment methodology planning, test execution ,and engagement collaboration. Whereas management can plan engagements, track progress, assign testers, monitor remediation status, and escalate SLA breaches, this is an All-in-One fancy dashboard. The main features are: A) *Asset Management* which allows IT asset inventory tracking with system owner contacts. B) *Engagements Management & Planning* that enable security testers to follow a test execution roadmap by creating a new testing methodology or follow execution standards such as NIST, PTES or OWASP. It definitely will keep pentesting engagements and projects more professional. Also, it enables collaborative testing, gathering information and evidence uploading. C) *Report Automation* that automates boring tasks such as writing technical reports and validation reports. Generating a PDF report that is ready to share with clients and management can be accomplished with one-click. D) *All-in-One Dashboard* that will keep executives and management up-to-date with the organization’s security posture. The dashboard components are: – High level of current vulnerabilities. – Engagement progress. – Remediation Status. – Track SLA breaches. -Monitoring risk exceptions.
Biography:
Abdul Alenazi is a penetration testing technical manager @SabrySecurity, a founding member of Sabry InfoSec, with nearly 8 years of experience in pentesting. Prior to joining Sabry, he has worked as a Penetration Testing Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, HYAS infoSec, ManTech and other Global & Local Companies. Abdul has completed MASc in Computer Engineering with focus on Applied Network Security & Machine Learning at @UVIC.ca. He has also published academic research on Botnet Detection. In his free time, he enjoys coding and investigating open source security tools. Twitter: @alenazi_90
Musaed Bin Muatred: is a Threat Intelligence expert with +8 years of experience in the field of cyber defence. He holds more than 10 certifications and MSc in Computer Science. Also, he has extensive experience in DFIR, threat hunting and reverse engineering
ResidueFree – Logan Arkema
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ResidueFree – Logan Arkema
A privacy-enhancing tool to keep sensitive information off a filesystem
Title:
ResidueFree
Presenter:
Logan Arkema
Abstract:
ResidueFree is a privacy-enhancing tool that allows individuals to keep sensitive information off their device’s filesystem. It takes on-device privacy protections from TAILS and "incognito" web browser modes and applies them to any app running on a user’s regular operating system, effectively making the privacy protections offered by TAILS more usable and accessible while improving the on-device privacy guarantees made by web browsers and extending them to any application. While ResidueFree currently runs on Linux, its maintainers are hoping to port it to other operating systems in the near future. In addition, ResidueFree can help forensic analysts and application security engineers isolate filesystem changes made by a specific application. The same implementation ResidueFree uses to ensure that any file changes an application makes are not stored to disk can also be used to isolate those changes to a separate folder without impacting the original files.
Biography:
Logan is a former student-turned-independent researcher and software developer. While he makes a living conducting IT, security, and privacy audits, his most impactful hacking is 1337ing his job’s policies as a union rep to elevate workplace privileges. He has an OSCP, other certs from days wooing federal hiring screeners to pass along his application, and The Time Warp stuck in his head from the time he heard "rm -rf" could be pronounced "rimm raff."
SharpSCCM – Chris Thompson, Duane Michael
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SharpSCCM – Chris Thompson, Duane Michael
Post-exploitation tool for lateral movement froma C2 agent.
Title:
SharpSCCM
Presenter:
Chris Thompson, Duane Michael
Abstract:
SharpSCCM is a post-exploitation tool designed to leverage Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (a.k.a. ConfigMgr, formerly SCCM) for lateral movement from a C2 agent without requiring access to the SCCM administration console. SharpSCCM supports lateral movement functions ported from PowerSCCM and contains additional functionality to abuse newly discovered attack primitives for coercing NTLM authentication from local administrator and SCCM site server machine accounts in environments where automatic client push installation is enabled. SharpSCCM can also dump information about the SCCM environment from a client, including domain credentials for Network Access Accounts. Further, with access to an SCCM administrator account, operators of SharpSCCM can execute code as SYSTEM or coerce NTLM authentication from the currently logged-in user or the machine account on any SCCM client.
Biography:
Chris is a senior consultant on SpecterOps’s adversary simulation team and has over ten years of experience in information security, serving numerous Fortune 500 clients in the retail, consumer products, financial, and telecom industries. He has extensive experience leading network, web application, and wireless penetration tests, social engineering engagements, and technical security assessments to provide actionable recommendations that align with each organization’s security strategy and risk tolerance. Chris enjoys researching and applying new tradecraft to overcome technical challenges and writing tools that automate tasks and improve efficiency.
Duane is a senior consultant on SpecterOps’s adversary simulation team, where he conducts advanced red team exercises and instructs courses on red team operations and vulnerability research. He has over ten years of experience in information security, with a deep curiosity for researching Windows, its internals, and related technologies. Duane strives to demystify tradecraft for clients through both an offensive and defensive lens, an activity he has performed for numerous Fortune 100 clients.
svachal + machinescli – Ankur Tyagi
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svachal + machinescli – Ankur Tyagi
Tools for creating and learning from CTF writeups.
Title:
svachal + machinescli
Presenter:
Ankur Tyagi
Abstract:
Writeups for CTF challenges and machines are a critical learning resource for our community. For the author, it presents an opportunity to document their methodology, tips/tricks and progress. For the audience, it serves as reference material. Oftentimes, authors switch roles and become the audience to learn from their own work. This demo aims to showcase tools, svachal and machinescli, developed with these insights. These work in conjunction to help users curate their learning in .yml structured files, find insights and query this knowledge base as and when needed.
Biography:
Ankur is working with Qualys Inc. as a Principal Engineer. On the Internet, he goes by the handle 7h3rAm and usually blogs here: http://7h3ram.github.io/ .
TheAllCommander – Matthew Handy
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TheAllCommander – Matthew Handy
An open-source tool as a framework to prototype and model malware comms.
Title:
TheAllCommander
Presenter:
Matthew Handy
Abstract:
TheAllCommander is an open-source tool which offers red teams and blue teams a framework to rapidly prototype and model malware communications, as well as associated client-side indicators of compromise. The framework provides a structured, documented, and object-oriented API for both the client and server, allowing anyone to quickly implement a novel communications protocol between a simulated malware daemon and its command and control server. For Blue Teamers, this allows rapid modeling of emerging threats and comprehensive testing in a controlled manner to develop reliable detection models. For Red Teamers, this framework allows rapid iteration and development of new protocols and communications schemes with an easy to use Python interface. The framework has many tools or techniques used by red teams built in, such as a SOCKS5 proxy, which then use the implemented communication scheme. This allows comprehensive testing of the detection and functional capability of the communication scheme, allowing for efficient design and development choices to be made before committing to production tool development. To facilitate this goal, TheAllCommander includes a Java based command and control server with a simple API to allow new plug-ins for server-side control. There is a python-based emulation client, which can be easily extended using the API to allow new client side communications code. Several reference implementations for covert malware communication are provided to allow out-of-the-box modeling, including emulated client browser HTTPS traffic, DNS queries, and email traffic. The tool chain includes support for several common Red Team tactics, such as Remote Desktop tunneling and FODHelper UAC bypass. This implementation effectively generates both client side and network traffic indicators of compromise.
Biography:
Matt Handy completed his BS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) in 2010, and MS in CyberSecurity at Johns Hopkins in 2014. He has worked for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center doing satellite ground systems development since 2009. He has specialized in secure software systems development and has helped to develop several missions over the course of his career. In his off time, he enjoys doing independent security research and creating tools like TheAllCommander to help make a more secure cyber world.
unblob – towards efficient firmware extraction – Kaiser, Lukavsky
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unblob – towards efficient firmware extraction – Kaiser, Lukavsky
A tool to obtain content binary blobs
Title:
unblob – towards efficient firmware extraction
Presenter:
Quentin Kaiser, Florian Lukavsky
Abstract:
Unblob is a command line extraction tool to obtain content from any kind of binary blob. It has been initially developed for the sound and safe extraction of arbitrary firmware images. It has been built as a modular framework where anyone can develop and submit new format handlers and extractors. Its public version already supports a large number of filesystems, archive, and compression formats: https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob
Biography:
Quentin Kaiser is an ex-penetration tester who turned binary analysis nerd. He’s currently working as a security researcher at the ONEKEY Research Lab, where he focuses on binary exploitation of embedded devices and bug finding automation within large firmware. Florian Lukavsky started his hacker career in early ages, bypassing parental control systems. Since then, he has reported numerous zero-day vulnerabilities responsibly to software vendors and has conducted hundreds of pentests and security reviews of IoT devices as a CREST certified, ethical hacker. Today, Florian Lukavsky aid organizations with IoT security automation as CTO of ONEKEY, the leading European platform for automated security analyses of IoT firmware.
Vajra – Your Weapon To Cloud – Raunak Parmar
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Vajra – Your Weapon To Cloud – Raunak Parmar
Framework for validating a target’s cloud security posture.
Title:
Vajra – Your Weapon To Cloud
Presenter:
Raunak Parmar
Abstract:
Vajra (Your Weapon to Cloud) is a framework capable of validating the cloud security posture of the target environment. In Indian mythology, the word Vajra refers to the Weapon of God Indra (God of Thunder and Storms). Because it is cloud-connected, it is an ideal name for the tool. Vajra supports multi-cloud environments and a variety of attack and enumeration strategies for both AWS and Azure. It features an intuitive web-based user interface built with the Python Flask module for a better user experience. The primary focus of this tool is to have different attacking and enumerating techniques all in one place with web UI interfaces so that it can be accessed anywhere by just hosting it on your server. The following modules are currently available: • Azure – Attacking 1. OAuth Based Phishing (Illicit Consent Grant Attack) – Exfiltrate Data – Enumerate Environment – Deploy Backdoors – Send mails/Create Rules 2. Password Spray 3. Password Brute Force – Enumeration 1. Users 2. Subdomain 3. Azure Ad 4. Azure Services – Specific Service 1. Storage Accounts • AWS – Enumeration 1. IAM Enumeration 2. S3 Scanner – Misconfiguration
Biography:
Raunak Parmar works as a Security Consultant. Web/Cloud security, source code review, scripting, and development are some of his interests. Also, familiar with PHP, NodeJs, Python, Ruby, and Java. He is OSWE certified and the author of Vajra and 365-Stealer.
Wakanda Land – Stephen Kofi Asamoah
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Wakanda Land – Stephen Kofi Asamoah
Automated Cyber Range deployment tool to paractice attacks.
Title:
Wakanda Land
Presenter:
Stephen Kofi Asamoah
Abstract:
Wakanda Land is a Cyber Range deployment tool that uses terraform for automating the process of deploying an Adversarial Simulation lab infrastructure for practicing various offensive attacks. This project inherits from other people’s work in the Cybersecurity Community, to which I have added some additional sprinkles to their work from my other research. The tool deploys the following for the lab infrastructure (of course, more assets can be added): -Two Subnets -Guacamole Server –This provides dashboard access to –Kali GUI and Windows RDP instances The Kali GUI, Windows RDP and the user accounts used to log into these instances are already backed into the deployment process –To log into the Guacamole dashboard with the guacadmin account, you need to SSH into the Guacamole server using the public IP address (which is displayed after the deployment is complete) and then change into the guacamole directory and then type cat .env for the password (the guacadmin password is randomly generated and saved as an environment variable) -Windows Domain Controller for the Child Domain (first.local) -Windows Domain Controller for the Parent Domain (second.local) -Windows Server in the Child Domain -Windows 10 workstation in the Child Domain -Kali Machine – a directory called toolz is created on this box and Covenant C2 is downloaded into that folder, so its just a matter of running Covenant once you are authenticated into Kali -Debian Server serving as Web Server 1 – OWASP’s Juice Shop deployed via Docker -Debian Server serving as Web Server 2 – Vulnerable web apps
Biography:
Stephen Kofi Asamoah (q0phi80) is an Offensive Security professional, with over fifteen (15) years of experience running Offensive Security operations. Some of his previous places of employment include Ernst & Young, PwC and IBM X-Force Red. Currently as a Snr. Manager of Offensive Cybersecurity Operations, he runs an Enterprise’s Offensive Security programs and manages a team of Offensive Security Operators.
Xavier Memory Analysis Framework – Solomon Sonya
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Xavier Memory Analysis Framework – Solomon Sonya
A visualization construct for memory analysis.
Title:
Xavier Memory Analysis Framework
Presenter:
Solomon Sonya
Abstract:
Malware continues to advance in sophistication. Well-engineered malware can obfuscate itself from the user and the OS. Volatile memory is the unique structure malware cannot evade. I have engineered a new construct for memory analysis and a new open-source tool that automates memory analysis, correlation, and user-interaction to increase investigation accuracy, reduce analysis time and workload, and better detect malware presence from memory. This talk demos a new visualization construct that creates the ability to interact with memory analysis artifacts. Additionally, this talk demos new, very impactful data XREF and a system manifest analysis features. Data XREF provides an index and memory context detailing how your search data is coupled with processes, modules, and events captured in memory. The System Manifest distills the analysis data to create a new memory analysis snapshot and precise identification of malicious artifacts detectable from malware execution especially useful for exploit dev and malware analysis!
Biography:
Solomon Sonya (@Carpenter1010) is the Director of Cyber Operations Training at a large organization. He has a background in software development, malware analysis, covert channels, steganography, distributed computing, computer hacking, information protection paradigms, and cyber warfare. He received his Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science and has Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Information System Engineering. Before becoming Director of Cyber Operations Training, he was a university Computer Science Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Research Director. Solomon’s current research includes computer system exploitation, cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics, and data protection. Solomon’s previous keynote and conference engagements include: BlackHat USA, SecTor Canada, Hack in Paris, France, HackCon Norway, ICSIS – Toronto, ICORES Italy, BruCon Belgium, CyberCentral – Prague and Slovakia, Hack.Lu Luxembourg, Shmoocon DC, BotConf – France, DerbyCon Kentucky, SkyDogCon Tennessee, HackerHalted Georgia, Day-Con Ohio, and TakeDownCon Connecticut, Maryland, and Alabama, AFCEA – Colorado Springs.
Zuthaka: A Command & Controls (C2s) integration framework – Lucas Bonastre, Alberto Herrera
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Zuthaka: A Command & Controls (C2s) integration framework – Lucas Bonastre, Alberto Herrera
Title:
Zuthaka: A Command & Controls (C2s) integration framework
Presenter:
Lucas Bonastre, Alberto Herrera
Abstract:
The current C2s ecosystem has rapidly grown in order to adapt to modern red team operations and diverse needs (further information on C2 selection can be found here). This comes with a lot of overhead work for Offensive Security professionals everywhere. Creating a C2 is already a demanding task, and most C2s available lack an intuitive and easy to use web interface. Most Red Teams must independently administer and understand each C2 in their infrastructure. Zuthaka presents a simplified API for fast and clear integration of C2s and provides a centralized management for multiple C2 instances through a unified interface for Red Team operations. A collaborative free open-source Command & Control development framework that allows developers to concentrate on the core function and goal of their C2. Zuthaka is more than just a collection of C2s, it is also a solid foundation that can be built upon and easily customized to meet the needs of the exercise that needs to be accomplished. This integration framework for C2 allows developers to concentrate on a unique target environment and not have to reinvent the wheel. After we first presented Zuthakas’ MVP at Black hat USA 2021 and DEFCON demo labs, we are now presenting the first release with updated post-exploitation modules to support text based modules, as well as file based ones. With a lab populated of commonly used C2s and its out-of-the-box integrations.
Biography:
Lucas started his career studying Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, however when his uncle gave him a C++ book, he realized his true passion for programming and his outstanding ability for problem-solving. He worked across cybersecurity and technology firms and is a vetted developer in many languages such as C/C++, Python, Java, and PHP. Now he is a full time developer and security researcher at Pucara Information Security. In his spare time, he is an expert chess player, and he is studying Computer Vision to analyze foosball strategies.
Alberto began his journey in cybersecurity in a consulting firm, where he worked with one of the biggest telecommunication companies of the region. He continued as an advisor on the National Cyber-Defence Initiative for the Argentina Armed Forces where he worked on many high-level government programs which required elevated security clearance. He also worked for Immunity, a prominent offensive security firm that serves the financial sector, and large enterprises, where he performed cybersecurity assessments for Forbes 100 companies. In his spare time, he is a retro gaming evangelist, where he applies his hardware-hacking and low-level programming skills on different architectures.