Hello! My name is Matt Suiche. I am an independent researcher, advisor, and investor. I previously served as the Head of Detection Engineering at Magnet Forensics. Our organization was passionately dedicated to justice and protecting the innocent, a mission we embarked on more intensely after the 2022 acquisition of my cybersecurity start-up, Comae Technologies.
My life-long fascination with learning and understanding complex systems first led me to cybersecurity. My teenage years were spent immersed in reverse engineering, which ignited a profound curiosity about technology that continues to this day. I’ve since explored various fields including operating systems architecture, programming languages, virtualization, modern web application development, and generative art. Furthermore, I’ve delved into numerous domains such as privacy, surveillance, forensics, blockchain, and community development among others.
On 14 April, the mysterious group ShadowBrokers released an archive containing several exploits, tools and operational notes on one of the most complex cyber-attack in History: JEEPFLEA. Main function which redirects the logic based on the target Oracle server version
Among those tools Windows exploits but also tools, to compromise SWIFT Service Alliance servers. One of this tool, PASSFREELY, enable the bypass of the authentication process of Oracle Database servers, and the second ones, initial_oracle_exploit.
This is by far, the most interesting release from Shadow Brokers as it does not only contain tools — but also materials describing the most complex and elaborate attack ever seen to date. A multi stages attack bypassing Cisco ASA Firewall appliances, exploiting and infecting Windows servers in order to copy Oracle databases of multiple hosts belonging to a SWIFT Service Bureau part of the internal financial system.
The last time a nation-state used multiple 0days to target another country’s critical infrastructure was when Stuxnet was launched targeting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
Offline domain join is a new process that joins computers running Windows® 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a domain in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)—without any network connectivity. This process includes a new command-line tool, Djoin.exe, which you can use to complete an offline domain join. Run Djoin.exe to provision the computer account metadata. When you run the provisioning command, the computer account metadata is created in a .
Here is a method I’m using in the next version of Win32DD (1.2), to retrieve MmPhysicalMemoryBlock regardless of the NT Version. The main problem with KDDEBUGGER_DATA64 structure is the version dependency. Then, we have to rebuild this field by ourselves. To retrieve physical memory runs, I’m using MmGetPhysicalMemoryRanges() undocumented function. This function usage had been documented by Mark Russinovich in 1999, in the Volume 1 Number 5 edition of the Sysinternals Newsletter.
Today, I wrote a tool called sym32guid which aims at retrieving all stored Program DataBase (*.PDB File) GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) from a physical memory dump. To do why? The first goal was to use use symbols as additional information regarding unexported functions like the über-famous msv1_0!MsvpPasswordValidate, but it looks it can also be used to detect Virus and Trojan…
The target machine is a Windows Vista SP1 32bits, I’ve installed last week inside a Virtual Machine and I’ve extracted the physical memory dump from the windows hibernation file through SandMan Framework.
X-Ways (WinHex editor) Forensics Beta 2 now includes hibernation file(hiberfil.sys) support for Windows XP 32-bit only. Please notice, Sandman library/framework is an open-source project under GNU General Public License v3 to read and write the hibernation file released 2 months ago…
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Ability to decompress Windows XP 32-bit hiberfil.sys files, whether active or inactive, to get a dump of physical memory with all in-use pages from a previous point of time when the computer entered into hibernation, as well as individually carved xpress chunks from hiberfil.
