Tag Archives: Shellcode

More adventures with shell code and the Shikata Ga Nai Encoder

The other day I was given a sample vbscript file by Paul Melson  @pmelson  so I could take a look at the odd shell code in it. Here is the original script. This starts out as a normal script running … Continue reading

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Chasing malware down the rabbit hole to see where it goes.

Lets start this journey with the blog post by Pondurance  titled “777 RANSOMWARE COMBINES WITH TRICKBOT” located here. There is not a whole lot here but it describes 2 layers of shellcode  and some indicator’s and the first is the … Continue reading

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Those Pesky Powershell Shellcode’s And How To Understand Them

Shellcode comes in various forms for different operating systems. Some can just be dropped into a hex editor and get the needed understanding what it is doing , some may require looking at the generated assembly code generated by a … Continue reading

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A deeper look at Equation Editor CVE-2017-11882 with encoded Shellcode

Our sample today comes from My Online Security @dvk01uk from this Twitter thread Here.  The First one I had started to work on comes from this Twitter thread  here from April 26 of 2019. The encoding on the shellcode uses … Continue reading

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A look at a bmp file with embedded shellcode

The sample today is from PaulM @melsonp While watching his BSIDES Augusta talk from 2018  Here,  at that the end he shows a picture file that gets downloaded from a layered PowerShell script. He was kind enough to send me … Continue reading

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