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COM-Hunter : COM Hijacking VOODOO

COM-hunter is a COM Hijacking persistence tool written in C#.

Features

  • Finds out entry valid CLSIDs in the victim’s machine.
  • Finds out valid CLSIDs via Task Scheduler in the victim’s machine.
  • Finds out if someone already used any of those valid CLSIDs in order to do COM persistence (LocalServer32/InprocServer32).
  • Finds out if someone already used any of valid CLSID via Task Scheduler in order to do COM persistence (LocalServer32/InprocServer32).
  • Tries to do automatically COM Hijacking Persistence with general valid CLSIDs (LocalServer32/InprocServer32).
  • Tries to do automatically COM Hijacking Persistence via Task Scheduler.
  • Tries to use “TreatAs” key in order to refere to a different component.

Usage

[+] Usage:
.\COM-Hunter.exe
-> General Options:
-h, –help Shows help and exits.
-v, –version Shows current version and exits.
-a, –about Shows info, credits about the tool and exits.
-> Modes:
Search Search Mode
Persist Persist Mode
-> Search Mode:
Get-Entry Searches for valid CLSIDs entries.
Get-Tasksch Searches for valid CLSIDs entries via Task Scheduler.
Find-Persist Searches if someone already used a valid CLSID (Defence).
Find-Tasksch Searches if someone already used a valid CLSID via Task Scheduler (Defence).
-> Persist Mode:
General Uses General method to apply COM Hijacking Persistence in Registry.
Tasksch Try to do COM Hijacking Persistence via Task Scheduler.
TreatAs Uses TreatAs Registry key to apply COM Hijacking Persistence in Registry.
-> General Usage:
.\COM-Hunter.exe Persist General
-> Tasksch Usage:
.\COM-Hunter.exe Persist Tasksch
-> TreatAs Usage:
.\COM-Hunter.exe Persist TreatAs

Example Usages

  • Get-Entry (Search Mode):

.\COM-Hunter.exe Search Get-Entry

Find-Persist (Search Mode):

.\COM-Hunter.exe Search Find-Persist

General (Persist Mode):

.\COM-Hunter.exe Persist General ‘HKCU:Software\Classes\CLSID…’ C:\Users\nickvourd\Desktop\beacon.dll

Example Format Valid CLSIDs

Software\Classes\CLSID...

HKCU:Software\Classes\CLSID…

HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID…

HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID…

HKEY_CURRENT_USER:Software\Classes\CLSID…

HKEY_CURRENT_USER:\Software\Classes\CLSID…

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID…

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