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Legitimate Apps That Could Be Exploited To Bypass The Windows Defender: Microsoft’s List



Microsoft recently, published a conspicuous list of application that are legitimate and yet could be exploited by hackers to bypass the Windows defender.


These hackers try to slide into the organizations’ networks and infect them via bypassing the security imparted by the defender.

The hackers usually make use of off-the-land attack tactics where they use the victim’s operating system features or authentic network administration tools to compromise the networks.

The major motive of this project was to comprehend the binaries that were being misused by the attacker.

·       LOLBins- Living Off The Land Binaries
·       LOLScripts- Living Off The Land Scripts
·       LOLLibs- Living Off The Land Libraries
·       GTFOBins- Unix Platform Binaries

The only point of fusing the legitimate app is to stay undetected in order to bypass the security measures of the network.

The LOTL tools are just a way to be as stealthy as possible as be as malignant as possible without even being easily caught.

The following applications are in the list that Microsoft published and recommend to do away with if not in use:
·       addinprocess.exe
·       addinprocess32.exe
·       addinutil.exe
·       bash.exe
·       bginfo.exe[1]
·       cdb.exe
·       csi.exe
·       dbghost.exe
·       dbgsvc.exe
·       dnx.exe
·       fsi.exe
·       fsiAnyCpu.exe
·       kd.exe
·       ntkd.exe
·       lxssmanager.dll
·       msbuild.exe[2]
·       mshta.exe
·       ntsd.exe
·       rcsi.exe
·       system.management.automation.dll
·       windbg.exe
·       wmic.exe

Along with the published list Microsoft has also highly recommended the users to download latest security updates.

In addition it has also provided the “deny file rules” for all apps.

Lateral movement and defense evasion happen to be the mostly used ways to exploit the authentic applications.

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