Article demonstrates how lateral movement can still be achieved in a lab with Elastic EDR and Microsoft ASR enabled by modifying payload delivery and execution techniques, bypassing common detection patterns and highlighting gaps in behavior-based defenses.
A deep dive into crafting ultra-compact Windows shellcode that walks the PEB, resolves APIs via export hashing, and runs fully self-contained without imports — showing how C can build stealthy, position-independent payloads.
The EarlyBird APC technique creates a trusted process in a suspended state, allocates memory for shellcode, and writes the payload. It then queues the shellcode as an Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) to the suspended thread. Resuming the thread forces immediate, stealthy execution of the malicious code.
PPLControlShells (the ppexec console tool) is a native Windows PP/PPL experimentation and control utility (x64)designed to help researchers understand, test, and demonstrate how Protected Process (PP) and Protected Process Light (PPL) behave on modern Windows (10/11 + compatible Server builds).
A PoC/demo demonstrating code injection via COM (using the IRundown::DoCallback() mechanism) to execute a payload in the context of a selected process, including lsass.exe (or any other PID).
the technique of exploiting the Bind Filter driver (bindflt.sys) to redirect folders containing the executable files of EDRs to a location that I completely control.
