Month: February 2018

Presentation: Understanding & avoiding AV detection

A while ago I gave a presentation / workshop on evading anti virus using multiple techniques. This was the agenda:

  • Common pitfalls
  • Lab prerequisites
  • AV detection methods
  • Signature evasion
  • Heuristics evasion
    • Packers / Crypters / etc
    • Payload transformations
  • Building your own evasion
    • Meterpreter loaders
    • Shellcode executers

You can download the slides here, keep in mind that the goal of the presentation / workshop was to give the attendees a broad overview and some pointers so that they could continue researching the subject themselves. A last addition to the presentation is a POC script to split files while maintaining a valid PE.

Identify a whitelisted IP address

An IP whitelist is one of the many measures applied to protect services, hosts and networks from attackers. It only allows those that are on the IP whitelist to access the protected resources and all others are denied by default. As attackers we have multiple obstacles to overcome if we want to bypass this and not always will it be possible. In my personal opinion there are two situation in which you will end up as an attacker:

  1. You are NOT on the same network as your target
  2. You are on the same network as your target

In the first situation you will (generally speaking) not be able to access or influence the network traffic of your target. This in turn enables the TCP/IP mechanisms to be useful and prevent you from accessing the resources, although maybe not prevent you from discovering who is on the whitelist.

In the second situation you will (generally speaking) be able to access or influence the network traffic of your target. This enables us as attacker to identify as well as bypass IP restrictions, by manipulating the TCP/IP protection mechanisms, to gain access to the protected resources.

For both situations there is an often overlooked detail which is: how do you know which IPs are on the whitelist? Mostly it is just assumed that either you know that upfront or discover that due to a connection being active while you initiate your attack. In this blog posts we’ll discuss the two situations and describe the techniques available to identify IPs on whitelist which have no active connection. A small helper script can be found here.

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