This report documents two covert TLS-based backdoors identified by NVISO: SparkCockpit & SparkTar. Both backdoors employ selective interception of TLS communication towards the legitimate Ivanti server applications.
Category: Reverse Engineering
Generating IDA Type Information Libraries from Windows Type Libraries
In this quick-post, we'll explore how to convert Windows type libraries (TLB) into IDA type information libraries (TIL).
Introducing CS2BR pt. III – Knees deep in Binary
Introduction Over the span of the previous two blog posts in the series, I showed why the majority of Cobalt Strike (CS) BOFs are incompatible with Brute Ratel C4 (BRC4) and what you can do about it. I also presented CS2BR itself: it's a tool that makes patching BOFs to be compatible with BRC4 a … Continue reading Introducing CS2BR pt. III – Knees deep in Binary
IcedID & Qakbot’s VNC Backdoors: Dark Cat, Anubis & Keyhole
In this post we introduce Dark Cat, Anubis and Keyhole, three IcedID & Kakbot VNC backdoor variants NVISO observed. We'll follow by exposing common TTPs before revealing information leaked through the attackers' clipboard data.
OneNote Embedded file abuse
In recent weeks OneNote has gotten a lot of media attention as threat actors are abusing the embedded files feature in OneNote in their phishing campaigns. In this post we will analyze this new way of malware delivery and create a detection rule for it.
Anatomy and Disruption of Metasploit Shellcode
In April 2021 we went through the anatomy of a Cobalt Strike stager and how some of its signature evasion techniques ended up being ineffective against detection technologies. In this blog post we will go one level deeper and focus on Metasploit, an often-used framework interoperable with Cobalt Strike. Throughout this blog post we will … Continue reading Anatomy and Disruption of Metasploit Shellcode





