Using Passive DNS sources for Reconnaissance and Enumeration, (Fri, Apr 29th)

In so many penetration tests or assessments, the client gives you a set of subnets and says “go for it”. This all seems reasonable, until you realize that if you have a website, there might be dozens or hundreds of websites hosted there, each only accessible by their DNS name.

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A Day of SMB: What does our SMB/RPC Honeypot see? CVE-2022-26809, (Thu, Apr 28th)

After Microsoft patched and went public with &#;x26;#;x25;&#;x26;#;x25;CVE:2022-26809&#;x26;#;x25;&#;x26;#;x25;, the recent RPC vulnerability, we set up a complete Windows 10 system exposing port 445/TCP “to the world.” The system is not patched for the RPC vulnerability. And to keep things more interesting, we are forwarding traffic from a subset of our honeypots to the system. This gives us a pretty nice cross-section and keeps the system pretty busy. Other than not applying the April patches, the system isn&#;x26;#;39;t particularly vulnerable and is left in the default configuration (firewall disabled, of course).

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MITRE ATT&CK v11 – a small update that can help (not just) with detection engineering, (Wed, Apr 27th)

MITRE ATT&CK has long been the de facto standard for sharing TTPs of different threat actors and for planning and executing various threat emulation exercises. However, especially in the last few years, I’ve seen more and more Security Operations Centers start using it as well, for mapping of their defensive capabilities, detection use cases and SIEM correlation rules.

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WSO2 RCE exploited in the wild, (Tue, Apr 26th)

While investigating a malicious crypto-mining case, I discovered that attackers implanted the payload exploiting a recently patched RCE vulnerability (CVE-2022-29464) affecting multiple WSO2 products, including API Manager. The vulnerability was discovered by Orange Tsai and responsibly disclosed to WSO2.

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Simple PDF Linking to Malicious Content, (Mon, Apr 25th)

Last week, I found an interesting piece of phishing based on a PDF file. Today, most of the PDF files that are delivered to end-user are not malicious, I mean that they don’t contain an exploit to trigger a vulnerability and infect the victim’s computer. They are just used as a transport mechanism to deliver more malicious content. Yesterday, Didier analyzed the same kind of Word document[1]. They are more and more common because they are (usually) not blocked by common filters at the perimeter.

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