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Windows APT Warfare

You're reading from Windows APT Warfare Identify and prevent Windows APT attacks effectively

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618110

Length 258 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

MiniGW

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Sheng-Hao Ma

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Modern Windows Compiler

2. Chapter 1: From Source to Binaries – The Journey of a C Program FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Process Memory – File Mapping, PE Parser, tinyLinker, and Hollowing

4. Chapter 3: Dynamic API Calling – Thread, Process, and Environment Information

5. Part 2 – Windows Process Internals

6. Chapter 4: Shellcode Technique – Exported Function Parsing

7. Chapter 5: Application Loader Design

8. Chapter 6: PE Module Relocation

9. Part 3 – Abuse System Design and Red Team Tips

10. Chapter 7: PE to Shellcode – Transforming PE Files into Shellcode

11. Chapter 8: Software Packer Design

12. Chapter 9: Digital Signature – Authenticode Verification

13. Chapter 10: Reversing User Account Control and Bypassing Tricks

14. Index

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Appendix – NTFS, Paths, and Symbols

Win32 and NT path specification

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

access control entries (ACEs) 210

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) 10, 101

Anti-debugger/attach 126

Anti-tamper protection 126

Anti-virtual machine 126

API CRC table 113

application binary interface (ABI) 5

application loader 10

Argument Passing and Naming Conventions

reference link 44

assembler

assembly code, transforming into machine code 7

Authenticode digital signatures 146, 147, 152

reference link 146

Auto Elevation privilege 190

B

benignware 95

binary data

packing, into PE format 10, 11

bypassing hash verification

examples 164-167

bypassing UAC, examples 201, 202

CMSTP arbitrary privilege elevation execution 206, 207

elevated COM Object (IFileOperation) 203-205

elevated privileges, achieving through trusted path...

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Authors (1)

Sheng-Hao Ma

Sheng-Hao Ma

Sheng-Hao Ma is currently working as a threat researcher at TXOne Networks, specializing in Windows reverse engineering analysis for over 10 years. In addition, he is currently a member of CHROOT, an information security community in Taiwan. He has served as a speaker and instructor for various international conferences and organizations such as Black Hat USA, DEFCON, CODE BLUE, HITB, VXCON, HITCON, ROOTCON, Ministry of National Defense, and Ministry of Education.

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