Hack Like a Pro: How to Evade AV Software with Shellter

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Hack Like a Pro: How to Evade AV Software with Shellter

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One key area on the minds of all hackers is how to evade security devices such as an intrusion detection system (IDS) or antivirus (AV) software. This is not an issue if you create your own zero-day exploit, or capture someone else's zero-day. However, if you are using someone else's exploit or payload, such as one from Metasploit or Exploit-DB, the security devices are likely to detect it and spoil all your fun.

Security software largely works by recognizing a signature of malicious software. If you can change the signature of your malware, payload, or shellcode, it will likely get past the AV software and other security devices.

I have written tutorials on using Veil-Evasion and Metasploit's msfvenom to re-encode payloads to get past these devices, but no method is foolproof. The more options you have to re-encode your malware, the better chance you have of re-encoding malware to get past these devices.

In this tutorial, we will be using Shellter. From my experience, it has proven more effective in re-encoding payloads to get past AV software than the other options.

How Shellter Works
Shellter is capable of re-encoding any native 32-bit standalone Windows application. Since we are trying to avoid AV detection, we need avoid anything that might look suspicious to AV software such as packed applications or applications that have more than one section containing executable code.

Shellter is capable of taking any of these 32-bit Windows applications and embedding shellcode, either your custom payload or one available from such applications as Metasploit, in a way that is very often undetectable by AV software. Since you can use any 32-bit application, you can create almost an infinite number of signatures making it nearly impossible for AV software to detect.
Change the signature and boom, stuff based on signatures doesn't work.. Still interesting :)
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