koneko/README.md
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koneko

A Cobalt Strike shellcode loader with multiple advanced evasion features.

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Disclaimer

Don't be evil with this. I created this tool to learn. I'm not responsible if the Feds knock on your door.


Historically was able to (and may still) bypass

  • Palo Alto Cortex xDR
  • Windows Defender
  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Features

  • Fully custom sleep implementation with thread callstack spoofing using NtCreateEvent and NtWaitForSingleObject
  • Inline hook on Sleep/SleepEx to redirect to said custom sleep implementation
  • Switching between Fiber threads to further avoid memory scanning
  • Return address spoofing on (almost?) every other API/NTAPI call
  • All the indirect syscalls!
  • Bunch of anti-VM and anti-debugger checks
  • Splitting and hiding shellcode as a bunch of x64 addresses with the EncodePointer API
  • Probably other stuff I forgot to mention here

Negatives

  • It's not a UDRL loader, these spoof tricks are limited to only the running executable and will go away when you process inject to something else.
  • The sleep obfuscation is tailored to Cobalt Strike. To work with other C2s you'd need to tailor how the hooking happens. Use a tool like apimonitor to intercept API calls from your beacon, detect the API(s) called on the sleep cycle, and then adjust the hooks as needed.