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Growing MSSP with Offensive Services

Decoding the first stage

From obfuscated PowerShell to MSBuild injection

The .cmd extension concealed the underlying PowerShell content. I exposed its structure by reformatting the code and renaming variables, then changed the execution function to print decoded commands. This revealed how the loader retrieved its next stage.

Incident responseMalware analysisStatic malware analysisDynamic malware analysisPowerShellProcess Monitor (Procmon)Persistence analysisCrowdStrikeEndpoint detection & response (EDR)
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