Reversing
pwning asus driverhub, msi center, acer control centre and razer synapse 4
At the beginning of this year I spent a week finding several vulnerabilities in various “bloatware” software. This was after I got suspicious of how my ASUS motherboard’s “DriverHub” behaved. In the end I looked at 6 targets from 6 random vendors (apart from ASUS) and found vulnerabilities ranging from Remote Code Execution to Local Privilege Escalation in all of them. Those were: ASUS, Acer, Lenovo, HP, MSI and Razer.
Intercepting HTTPS Communication in Flutter: Going Full Hardcore Mode with Frida
tl;dr In this blog post, I will share insights I learned while researching the Flutter framework and the reFlutter tool. It will dive deep into Flutter’s architecture, some of its inner workings and dependencies, and finally, drill down into the SSL verification logic. The post will end by exploring what the reFlutter tool actually does and my attempts at replicating the same behaviour with Frida.
Note: If you are in a pinch on a mobile assessment where the application uses Flutter, the reFlutter tool is a great option. This blog post does not advocate that you need to use Frida logic. It is simply an exercise in seeing whether a Frida equivalent may exist.
Filter-Mute Operation: Investigating EDR Internal Communication
For our annual internal hacker conference dubbed SenseCon in 2023, I decided to take a look at communication between a Windows driver and its user-mode process. Here are some details about that journey.
TL;DR Attackers could use Windows kernel R/W exploit primitive to avoid communication between EDR_Driver.sys and its EDR_process.exe. As a result some EDR detection mechanisms will be disabled and make it (partially) blind to malicious payloads. This blogpost describes an alternative approach which doesn’t remove kernel callbacks and gives some recommendations for protecting against this “filter-mute” attack.
DualSense Reverse Engineering
Ciao belli!
On the 19th of November 2020, SONY finally released the new PlayStation 5 in the UK. A few days earlier in the US, Japan, and Canada. Of course, Play Station 5 came together with a new Wireless Controller, this time named DualSense. I wanted to see if I could continue my PlayStation controller adventures on this new device, following on my previous work.
A few SONY installations available in London for the release of the PlayStation 5. DualSense Wireless Controller The DualSense Wireless Controller presents new features such as:
[Dual-Pod-Shock] Emotional abuse of a DualShock
Hacking PlayStation DualShock controllers to stream audio to their internal speakers.
Ciao a tutti.
Introduction I didn’t really know what this project was going to be about and where or how it would end up. The only thing I know is that I started working on it because one day I was bored and having a chat with a friend of mine:
Your flat is like a Luna Park for nerds. Just look around and, I am sure, you’ll figure out what to do. — He said.
Hacking doom for fun, health and ammo
Remember iddqd and idkfa? Those are two strings were etched into my brain at a very young age where fond memories of playing shareware Doom live. For SenseCon ’19, Lauren and Reino joined me as we dove into some reversing of chocolate-doom with the aim of recreating similar cheats. The results? Well, a video of it is shown below. We managed to get cheats working that would:
Increment your ammo instead of decrement it.Increment everyone’s health for the amount it would have gone down for. Yes, you read right, everyone.Toggle cheats just like how they behaved in classic doom. The source code for our cheats live here if you want to play along, or maybe even contribute new ones :)
Abusing GDI Objects for ring0 Primitives Revolution
Exploiting MS17-017 EoP Using Color Palettes This post is an accompaniment to the Defcon 25 talk given by Saif. One of the core topics of the talk was the release of a new technique GDI object abuse technique, name Palette Objects. Saif presented a previously unreleased Windows 7 SP1 x86 exploit involving the abuse of a newly discovered GDI object abuse technique.
A complete white-paper on the topic was released and can be found here: Whitepaper
MAPI over HTTP and Mailrule Pwnage
History In December 2015 Silent Break Security wrote about “Malicious Outlook Rules” and using these to get a remote shell. This was great, we could now use those credentials found through brute-forcing OWA instances or a phishing page. The only issue I had with this was the fact that you needed to setup a local instance of the mailbox, which at times could be time consuming and also felt like overkill.
January Get Fit Reversing Challenge
Aah, January, a month where resolutions usually flare out spectacularly before we get back to the couch in February. We’d like to help you along your way with a reverse engineering challenge put together by Siavosh as an introduction to reversing, and a bit of fun.
The Setup This simple reversing challenge should take 4-10+ hours to complete, depending on your previous experience. The goal was to create an interactive challenge that takes you through different areas of the reverse engineering process, such as file format reverse engineering, behavioural and disassembly analysis.
Dangers of Custom ASP.NET HttpHandlers
ASP.NET HttpHandlers are interesting components of a .NET web application when performing security assessments, mainly due to the fact they are the most exposed part of the application processing client requests in HttpContext level and at the same time, not yet part of the official ASP.NET framework.
As a result, data validation vulnerabilities in custom HttpHandlers can be exploited far easier than issues on the inner layer components. However, they are mostly overlooked during the web application tests for two reasons:
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