Malicious PowerShell Using Client Certificate Authentication, (Mon, Oct 18th)

Attackers have many ways to protect their C2 servers from unwanted connections. They can check some specific headers, the user-agent, the IP address location (GeoIP), etc. I spotted an interesting PowerShell sample that implements a client certificate authentication mechanism to access its C2 server. It’s VT score is 9/56[1] (SHA256:6d3f45db0a991572a7ac8077e2fd8eec29aad99e7efa6cea5e54186ac1abc488).

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