To Simulate or Replicate: Crafting Cyber Ranges, (Fri, Jan 31st)

The Good Stuff First This tool is being shared (calling it a tool is generous) due to the number of times last year I had to create fake internet domains. It adds domains and zones to Windows DNS. This was to help with the many student cyber ranges that got ‘sploited [1] in the name of learning.

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From PowerShell to a Python Obfuscation Race!, (Wed, Jan 29th)

Attackers like to mix multiple technologies to improve the deployment of their malicious code. I spotted a small script that drops a Python malware. The file was sent on VirusTotal and got a score of 2/60![1] (SHA256:96bb0777a8e9616bc9ca22ca207cf434a947a3e4286c051ed98ddd39147b3c4f). The script starts by downloading and opening a fake Garmin document through Powershell:

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Fileless Python InfoStealer Targeting Exodus, (Tue, Jan 28th)

Exodus is a well-known crypto wallet software[1] and, when you are popular, there are chances that attackers will target you! I already wrote a diary related to this application[2]. Yesterday, I found a new one that behaves differently. My previous diary described a Python script that will patch the original Exodus software. Today, it’s a real “info stealer”.

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An unusual “shy z-wasp” phishing, (Mon, Jan 27th)

Threat actors who send out phishing messages have long ago learned that zero-width characters and unrendered HTML entities can be quite useful to them. Inserting a zero-width character into a hyperlink can be used to bypass some URL security checks without any negative impact on the function of the link, while any unrendered entities can be used to break up any suspicious words or sentences that might lead to the message being classified as a potential phishing, without the recipient being aware of their inclusion.

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