Offensive Lua – Unveiling Lua Scripts For Windows Security Exploration

Offensive Lua is a collection of offensive security scripts written in Lua with FFI. The scripts run with LuaJIT (v2.0.5) on Microsoft Windows to perform common tasks.

Run an EXE
Bypass UAC
File, Networking or Registry
Common Tasks (e.g. bind a shell)

Lua is a lesser used but very useful choice for post-exploitation scripting language. It’s flexible, lightweight, easy to embed, runs interpreted or as bytecode from memory and allows for JIT to interact with the host OS libraries.

Filename	Description
bin2hex.lua	Convert a binary to hex for binrun.lua
binrun.lua	Writes a hex of EXE to a random location and exec’s
bindshell.lua	bind a shell on TCP port 5000
ComputerDefaultsUACBypass.lua	Bypass UAC restrictions via ms-settings
console.lua	Console App Example
downloadexec.lua	Download & Exec over HTTP
downloadexec_UACbypass.lua	Download & BypassUAC & Exec over HTTP
filewrite.lua	Write a file
luajit.exe	LuaJIT compiled from our internal source tree.
messagebox.lua	MessageBox Example
regread.lua	Read from Registry
regwrite.lua	Write to Registry
regwritedel.lua	Write and Delete from Registry
rickroll.lua	Open a browser on URL
runcmd.lua	Run a command popen
runcmd2.lua	Run a command os.execute
runswhide.lua	Run a command via CreateProcess with SW_HIDE
uac_bypass_bluetooth_win10.lua	Bypass UAC via Bluetooth on Windows10

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