I was performing some penetration tests in 2011 – 2012 against various PHP applications integrated with MySQL databases which were vulnerable to Time Based Blind SQL Injection. Due to various constraints and limitations, exploitation was a little tricky and I was forced to investigate a method which allowed me to […]
Building on from my previous post, this will primarily focus on delivering an Empire payload via an embedded offensive PowerShell script stored within the ‘comments’ property of an MS Excel document. PowerShell Empire: Begin by creating an Empire listener, see Empire’s documentation on how to get started with this by […]
As a penetration tester I’m always excited to see new and creative methods on creating weaponized MS Office documents. This blog post builds on the following findings published by Black Hills InfoSec: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/hide-payload-ms-office-document-properties/ There are numerous ways on how MS Office documents can be abused and weaponised to deliver […]