LOLBITS is a C# reverse shell that uses Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to communicate with the Command and Control backend. The Command and Control backend is hidden behind an apparently harmless flask web application and it's only accesible when the HTTP requests received by the app contain a valid authentication header.
LOLBITS is composed of 3 main elements:
- The C# agent that is in charge of executing the commands in the compromised host, sending back the output to the C&C server once the process is done.
- The flask web application that acts as a dispatcher. This element is the one that allows to hide the C&C infrastructure behind a harmless website at the same time that supplies the new commands to the agent when an authenticated request is received.
- The C&C console, used to control the agent.
To avoid that the Blue Team could reproduce some of the old requests and discover the C&C infrastructure, each authentication header is generated randomly and is valid only for one single cycle (a cycle is composed of a POST request followed by a GET request). Old authentication headers will be ignored and the harmless website will be displayed for those requests.
Acknowledgements
Some of this tool features have being implemented reusing code from the CyberVaca's amazing project Salsa Tools, so a big shout-out to him! Here you can find him:
Getting Started
Prerequisites
For the C&C infrastructure is required a Windows Server 2012 or above with python 3.4+ and the following python dependencies:
- Colorama
pip install colorama
- Flask
pip install flask
- Visual Studio 2017 or above.
- .NET Framework 4.5 or above.
Setup
1.- Clone this repository on your C&C server
git clone https://github.com/Kudaes/LOLBITS.git
Also install .NET Framework and BITS features for IIS.
3.- Install wfastcgi and configure Fast CGI settings in IIS. This is required since our web application is written in Python. For this step to be done I followed up this amazing tutorial, and I recommend you to do the same. Come back to this README when you have completed the tutorial's steps 1 and 2.
4.- Stop the Default website and create a new one using Internet Information Services Manager. Enable BITS uploads for this new website.
5.- Move
the content
of the C&C folder of this repository to the physical directory where the new website is deployed. Let's say that you have created the new website pointing to your directory C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bits
, then this should be that directory tree:C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bits
|__ /config
|-- auth.txt
|__ /files
|-- abcde1234
|-- default
|__ /lolbins
|-- base64decode.py
|-- base64encode.py
|-- a lot of other .py files
|__ /templates
|-- index.html
|__ /static
|__ /payloads
|__ -- decrypt.py
|__ -- encrypt.py
|__ -- myapp.py
|__ -- web.config
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bits
in the example) in order to avoid all kind of access denied errors. At the end this is just a C&C server...6.- Edit the web.config file. In this file you have to modify two settings:
scriptProcessor
property for the web handler. For that, go back to the IIS Manager, click on the IIS server's root and select FastCGI Settings (you should have configured this when following the tutorial referenced on the step 3). The value of thescriptProcessor
property should be "Full Path|Arguments".
Acording with the previous image, my
scriptProcessor
property should have the value "c:\python3.4\python.exe|c:\python3.4\lib\site-packages\wfastcgi.py".- PYTHONPATH, that should point to your website directory, in this case it would be "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bits".
- Select the password to use as preshared key. Set its value in:
- Program.cs ->
Password
variable. - myapp.py ->
Password
variable. - lawlbin.py ->
password
variable.
- Program.cs ->
- Set in the c# agent the url where the flask application is listening.
- Program.cs ->
Url
variable.
- Program.cs ->
- In myapp.py, set the value of the variables
AuthPath
,ReadPath
andPayloads
pointing to the correponding folders in the website directory. - In lawlbin.py (lolbins folder) set the corresponding values for the variables
baseReadPath
andbaseWritePath
acording with your website directory tree.
Usage
To obtain the reverse shell just type in
python lawlbin.py
on a cmd of the C&C server and execute the C# agent on the compromised host.Since this project borns from the ashes of a previous and failed project, some of the old features have been kept. The old project was a shell where all the available commands would be executed using exclusively Living of The Land Binaries. Thats where the LOL of LOLBITS comes from, and thats why the following features run using exclusively LOLBINS (this could help to bypass AWS and some EDR filters):
- download: Download a file from a Webdav to the compromised host.
- copy: Copy a file from a local path to another local path.
- base64encode: Use base64 encoding over the content of a local file.
- base64decode: Decode a base64 encoded file.
- compile: Compile .cs files into exe or dll.
- execute: Execute different types of files (bat, exe, xml, js, vbs, hta among others). In maintenance!! Broken ATM!!
- downexec: Download a file from a webdav and execute it. In maintenance!! Broken ATM!!
- inject: Download from the C&C a shellcode (.bin) or dll (.NET assembly) file and execute it in memory. With this command the payload never touches disk unencrypted, avoiding AV detection. Shellcode injection is only implemented for 64 bits procesess. The shellcode injection can be executed on both own and remote process.
- psh: Generate a remote Powershell version 2 shell. This shell has to be handled by additional sofware like netcat (just run nc -lvp ).
- send: To send a file from your C&C to the compromised host just use this option. The sent file will be store in disk, so be carefull.
- getsystem: Attempt to obtain System privileges using named pipes impersonation. High integrity process required.
- impersonate: Attempt to steal an access token from other process in order to "become" another user.
- runas: Use valid credentials to modify your security context and log in as other (local or domain) user.
- rev2self: Remove security context changes performed by getsystem, impersonate or runas.
- exfiltrate: Send a file from the compromised host to your C&C.
help
or <somecommand> help
. In the future more features will be implemented, so stay tuned!Contact
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