The tools help defense teams discover vulnerable network shares and identify adversary behaviors
NetSPI, the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today unveiled two new open-source tools for the information security community: PowerHuntShares and PowerHunt.
These new adversary simulation tools were developed by NetSPI’s Senior Director, Scott Sutherland, to help defense, identity and access management (IAM), and security operations center (SOC) teams discover vulnerable network shares and improve detections.
- PowerHuntShares inventories, analyzes, and reports excessive privilege assigned to SMB shares on Active Directory domain joined computers. This capability helps address the risks of excessive share permissions in Active Directory environments that can lead to data exposure, privilege escalation, and ransomware attacks within enterprise environments.
- PowerHunt, a modular threat hunting framework, identifies signs of compromise based on artifacts from common MITRE ATT&CK techniques and detects anomalies and outliers specific to the target environment. PowerHunt automates the collection of artifacts at scale using PowerShell remoting and perform initial analysis. It can also output easy to consume .csv files so that additional triage and analysis can be done using other tools and processes.
“I’m proud to work for an organization that understands the importance of open-source tool development and encourages innovation through collaboration,” said Scott. “I urge the security community to check out and contribute to these tools so we can better understand our SMB share attack surfaces and improve strategies for remediation, together.”
To see PowerHuntShares in action and explore the risks of excessive share permissions, read Scott’s blog, or register for our upcoming webinar, How to Evaluate Active Directory SMB Shares at Scale. For those attending Black Hat on August 10-11, request a meeting with Scott at NetSPI booth #1687.
NetSPI’s global penetration testing team has developed several open-source tools, including popular penetration testing tools PowerUpSQL and MicroBurst. Learn more about NetSPI’s commitment to open-source tool development on the company’s tool repository.
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