noWatch

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https://tishina.in/opsec/nowatch-prealpha-release noWatch is an interactive console application that allows tampering with EDR userland hooks and testing EDR detection capabilities. It is meant to be used as a standalone binary or converted with donut and remotely injected. In general, it is designed as a drop-in replacement for testing what C2 framework features can get detected without deploying C2 in an Internet-isolated detection lab.

update: integrated SW2 and SW2 with trampolines to test RX allocations (credits @ajpc500)

update: integrated rad9800's DLL load proxying

update: added a createthread command for CreateThread and directthread/indirectthread for thread creation with syscalls

Usage demo:

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noWatch capabilities are divided into discovery commands and attacks. Discovery commands are simple and few:

         modname -> find module name for address (discovery)
          showrx -> show rx pages in the current process (discovery)
             set -> set runtime config (util)
        jmphooks -> show jmp instructions at the beginning of all functions in the current library (discovery)
      disas_addr -> disassemble @address (discovery)
      showconfig -> show runtime config (util)
         refresh -> reload .text of the currentlibrary from disk (evasion)
        listdlls -> list running DLLs in the current process (discovery)
           disas -> disassemble a function in the current library (discovery)
    virtualquery -> show all vmemory pages (discovery)
         showrwx -> show rwx pages in the current process (discovery)
            help -> show help (util)

Attacks are pretty simple, as they are meant to test various malicious activity primitives:

     crt_inject -> execute msgbox remotely with CreateRemoteThread
         loadclr -> load a demo C# assembly to the process
         loadpsh -> execute psh with System.Management.Automation
           spawn -> calls startprocess
         dropdll -> drop a stub dll to disk
            exec -> calls execCmd
        patchetw -> patch EtwEventWrite with a single RET (evasion)
             iwr -> fetches a URL (http only), prints first 200 chars
    local_inject -> execute msgbox locally
       patchamsi -> patch AMSI (evasion)
     impersonate -> calls ImpersonateLoggedOnUser on pid
      whoami_bof -> calls whoami.o BOF (for testing COFFLoading)
      unhook_bof -> calls unhook.o BOF (as another unhooking method)
      ppid_spoof -> create suspended notepad process with PPID spoofing to explorer
      directrx/indirectrx -> allocate msgbox shellcode with syscalls
     createthread/directthread/indirectthread -> different methods of thread creation
     proxyload -> proxyload a DLL

dependencies&building

$ nimble install winim ptr_math memlib

• Distorm3 from nimble is also used, but it had to be patched, so it's shipped here as well. In general, disassembly in noWatch is really bad and unreliable, so use a proper debugger if you can.

$ nim c --threads:on --passL:"-static-libgcc -static -lpthread" --app:gui --threadAnalysis:off .\main.nim
$ nim c --nomain --app:lib -o:.\resources\stub.dll .\resources\stub.nim

For injection, you'll need to compile the executable with a relocation table with --passL:-Wl,--dynamicbase.

credits and offensive Nim resources

• https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/OffensiveNim
• https://github.com/gdabah/distorm
• https://github.com/khchen/winim
• https://github.com/khchen/memlib
• sliverarmory, trustedsec and rsmudge for the bofs