Paul Melson

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Blue Team by day, Blue Team by night. Opinions, typos, and awful code do not represent my employer. Author/Operator of https://infosec.exchange/@ScumBots
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@james_inthe_box Just using the name, or..?
@krypt3ia I have this shirt in white on black. Gets lots of comments, but zero folks have actually recognized it yet. 😂
Ugh, why does this work?! (I mean, I know how it works, but what was the thought process behind what’s essentially executing the stdout of a command? We’ve come so far and learned so little from our past mistakes.)
@SwiftOnSecurity Imma let you finish, but in 2014 Lazarus Group made the best ransom note of all time. Of all time!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ScumBots/115850383845467081

This Meterpreter reverse shell was part of an intrusion set tied to an actor claiming to be a KeyGroup777 member and this HiddenTear ransomware payload: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/62ecd3ec595452e7f01a9eeab6ae619f61648e5b6cb01c23c5ca2c03f59ec778/summary

@jernej__s @Ichinin I was unaware that ‘wget’ is an alias for IWR. What version(s) of PowerShell does that work for?
@jernej__s Also, despite the comments, it’s not dropping BTC miners
@jernej__s I’m just reporting on what I’m seeing.

If you’re not alreadyalerting on

CONHOST.EXE spawning CMD.EXE spawning WGET.EXE

or

CONHOST.EXE spawning CONHOST.EXE spawning CONHOST.EXE

you’re gonna want to close that gap today.