Introduction This blog post will walk you through how to answer the questions that are contained in my Atreides scenario located here: https://github.com/medmondson44/dune/tree/main/atreides. The Jupyter Notebook file is located there. The blog post will go through the initial access vector, situational awareness commands that were run, persistence mechanism used, how privilege escalation to System was […]

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Today I wanted to do a quick blog post on how to test your security tools to find the Windows binary mshta.exe downloading a malicious .hta file. My setup is an Elastic Stack VM, a Windows endpoint configured with Elastic’s endpoint agent. In addition, I used a Parrot security VM as my attacking machine and […]

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