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This post explains how to use scdbg  to analyse one type of shellcode generated by Metasploit framework or CobaltStrike to get the C2 domain/IP address so that the incident responder can able to identify and block the further adversary activity. FYI this post doesn't cover the initial infection vector (like phishing thorough office maldoc) or how the shellcode will get generated (like from Metasploit framework or Cobaltstrike).  The previous post Decoding Metasploit and CobaltStrike shells explains how to leverage CyberChef to fully decode and get the shellcode from an encoded powershell command and further it will be fed into scdbg emulator to get the IP address of C2 or an adversary scdbg is a shellcode analysis application built around the libemu emulation library. When run it will display to the user all of the windows APIs the shellcode attempts to call  Finally, there are other ways to analyse shellcode in various platforms. This is just an explanatory post to...

Introduction  This post explains how to use PowerForensics ( https://github.com/Invoke-IR/PowerForensics ) to extract ZeroAccess infected system's NTFS extended attributes content. ZeroAccess used NTFS extended attributes to maintain persistent mechanism on infected system. "If installed on Windows Vista or higher ZeroAccess will attempt to patch the Windows file services.exe. A subroutine inside services.exe is overwritten with shellcode that is carried inside the ZeroAccess dropper. A large amount of binary data is also written to the NTFS Extended Attributes of services.exe. Extended Attributes are a feature of NTFS similar in nature to Alternate Data Streams where extra information about the file can be stored on the file system. ZeroAccess uses this feature to hide a whole PE file as well as shellcode that loads the PE file. The overwritten subroutine in services.exe reads in all the data from the Extended Attributes and executes it. The shellcode then loads and e...