Innehållsförteckning för September 2023 från Hackercool Magazine

Ever since Microsoft officially banned macros by default, hackers around the world shifted to other file formats (June 2022 Issue) to gain access and to deliver and execute malware on the target system. Most popular among them is the Windows Shortcut (LNK) file. Although Windows shortcut (LNK) files have been used as a malware delivery actor for a long time, the ban of macros just increased its usage by APT’s and Threat actors around the world. In our June 2022 Issue, we have shown our readers how malicious shortcuts can be created from the barebones. We have also showed you a tool that can create malicious shortcuts. In this Issue, we will show our readers the easiest way to make a shortcut malicious and three latest infection chains using Windows…

A few months back, when developers of Kali Linux introduced Kali Purple they also introduced a new tool called Kali Autopilot. Kali Autopilot is a tool that helps red and purple teams to develop automatic attack scripts. Although this tool is intended for use to create automatic attack scripts for vulnerable machines in the Kali Purple Platform, it can also be used for creating scripts for pen testing in Real world. In this article, we will give our readers a basic introduction of Kali Autopilot and how to create automatic scripts using Kalsi Autopilot. Kali Autopilot is installed by default in Kali Purple but it can also be installed in any Kali machine normally. “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.”–Richard Clarke Once…

In our Exploit writing – Part1 feature of our July 2023 Issue, you have learnt about basics of exploit writing in Python, how to run Python, what are modules and variables in python and how to import modules and use its functions while writing a exploit in python. You learnt about two modules: OS and platform. In this Part 2 of Exploit Writing of this Issue, readers will learn about two more modules that will prove helpful in writing exploits and what are arguments and methods. We will start from where we left off in Part 1, i.e our first exploit that we used in our previous tutorial. I edit the above exploit as shown below. Here we are importing another module named “subprocess”. The official documentation of python says…

I never expected this article would start with an image of a sewing machine but comparing it with the fact that Hackercool Magazine successfully completed 7 years, I will digest it. Moreover, it is a fact that Hackercool Magazine started on this sewing machine only. You may ask me how. Well, like this with a small help from exam pad. There is our table decked for the laptop and writing pad to prepare the next article of Hackercool Magazine. One night One night, just before sleep, I had a thought. The thought was as if GOD was talking and instructing me to do something. This thought was like it was kept in continuous loop in my mind and never left me no matter what. I didn’t sleep that night and…