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January 2, Command and Control – Images
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Images traditionally have been used as a method of hiding a message. It is possibly for
forensic investigators the oldest trick in the book to search for evidence inside that type of
files. However in offensive security and red teaming pictures can hide commands, Follow PenTest Lab
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not just commands but full PowerShell scripts in order to perform various other post
exploitation activities. Barrett Adams developed a PowerShell module that can use pixels
of a PNG file to embed a PowerShell script. This module will also generate an oneliner Pen Test Lab Stats
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1 Import-Module .\Invoke-PSImage.ps1
2 Invoke-PSImage -Script .\Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 -Image .\77.jpg
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Images can be used to execute shellcode and scripts and perform other activities. There is The big day is here.
a limitation in the number of characters that can be used therefore only images with a lot of
pixels can carry a script. It is an interesting method of hiding payloads in plain sight and a
type of threat that it could be prevented if PowerShell was disabled across the network.
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