HAVOC C2 - Demon Bypasses Windows 11 Defender

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[@C5pider]

Thank you so much for checking out the Havoc Framework !!!!

[@angryman9333]

Appreciate the havoc, 5pider

[@AdverierialResearch]

You are doing a great job MAN.

[@C5pider]

@@AdverierialResearch Thanks ^^

[@Jango1989]

Looks like a great start! I hope people in the community help you flesh it out more.

[@C5pider]

@@Jango1989 I hope too. Thanks to John more people are going to check it out, report issues/bugs, request some cool features and maybe a few PRs here and there.

[@emby3885]

Whenever I look into some new topic you magically seem to make a video on it right after, nice!

[@elisehackmann-tf6xg]

Damn i love the way you explore the new programs, how you navigate, how you research and how you do your trial and error. I love to see more!!

[@AndrewSherd]

great video John! suggestion for the next video like this - keep Defender with default settings "on" to create a little challenge. Disabling almost all protection except basic RTP is not true bypass and like selecting "I'm too young to die" difficulty level :)

[@OPCC2]

then you have to write a stager

[@trustedsecurity6039]

@@OPCC2 you can do without a stager and it is even better to do without it. A loader yeah

[@SaltyBalsZ]

@23:28 Worth to note that Windows Defender is almost worthless without cloud protection turned on.. So is Malware bytes, BitDefender, Kaspersky, Sophos and most AV applications. Patching the OS does not automatically update Win Defender's IoC's and rule sets to detect malware or suspicious behaviour

[@Snowwolfow]

Kaspersky would Maybe block it

[@SaltyBalsZ]

@@Snowwolfow That's why I use Kaspersky 👍 Best there is

[@ishanchoudhary4555]

First video I have seen where the defender failed lmao. Crazy framework, cool video. Ty C5pider

[@anthonyjirouschek]

18 and creating this, this guys going places!

[@C5pider]

lol

[@bannanas117]

@@C5pider Nice GUI. I see similarities to Cobalt Strike. Always cool to see another c2 framework out there thats open source. Nice work man

[@C5pider]

@@bannanas117 I really tried to make similar to Cobalt Strike since I wanted to avoid confusion. I didn't wanted people to learn a new UI and personally love Cobalt Strike

[@swarooprajpurohit110]

@@C5pider man you're amazing, I'm 22 and nowhere close to what you've done. I'm learning and thanks to guys like you who keep the FLOSS philosophy alive. I hope I can meet you someday. :)

[@MaryOliveira-xi7cg]

@@C5pider Why do my connections become unresponsive and I can't do anything with the connection?

[@xAngryDx]

Thank you John, appreciate your content 🙂

[@anounTT]

You should make a video going over your VM's. I am interested in how that is setup and how much space is typically required to have a VM setup like that.

[@infostreammining2160]

I'm a huge fan of your videos man. Only thing I don't understand is you show that it's a complete up-to-date machine and you have defender enabled, but you have many things disabled including tamper detection? Am I wrong or aren't most people trying to learn how to *get around* windows anti-virus. Either way you're the man. Just don't understand unless you expect everyone viewing to know you have to do way more to get through windows AV. ?

[@ITSecurityLabs]

I know what i am doing tonight! I will try to check some of the logs in security onion with wazuh and sysmon and see what we can add for detection

[@C5pider]

Sounds amazing.

[@U3mi436]

Hi John, I really appreciate your content and it’s really fun to watch. Just curious have you tested this also with Defender for Endpoint if it still remains undetected? Best regards Tim

[@GarrysSketch]

Defender for Endpoint does detect it.

[@SkeeterPondRC]

Awesome. Im going to test this in my environment... Maybe in one of my internal phishing campaigns (evil laugh)

[@lordvoldemort7692]

Thanks for the content , now your getting close and close to the real malware world

[@tea_otomo]

22:18 tbf defender is waaaayyy worse without cloud protection.

[@diegodejesus9668]

I find it impressive to see these types of tools so powerful, and then you see the description of the repository saying "made just for fun" lol

[@flobow8446]

You would need to fix the broken dependency causing apt to throw error, then the scripts will probably work. Maybe just a clean of apt would have done the trick :)

[@CU.SpaceCowboy]

the framework itself is always more important IMO than the client itself because most people are going to end up heavily modding it anyways to avoid getting signatured. for cs beacon ill rewrite the same function differently and add do random math operations or sleeps. if ur gnarly then change how it communicates to c2 maybe. great vid as usual brother 👍

[@thefunnychannel647]

Hi John Great video. Just to let you know that it's the team server in the image with the two systems.

[@RVTKZCE]

Is that payload still would be undetected with cloud scanning feature on ? If no, what's the point of showing this ?

[@MygenteTV]

you are the reason im so into cyber security now thank you. bro can you please show us how you would maintain connection to a server once is hacked? I'm doing the oscp but they don't teach you that and I was asked this twice in job interviews.

[@MrBigMoneyMan909]

Establish persistence by writing to the registry key HKLM\Software\\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run to start a service which launches the daemon for your post exploitation C2 server on boot. That ensures you maintain a connection to the server that survives a reboot. You can also do the same thing to survive being manually killed since the registry will just restart it in the background, you would just need to find out what key needs to be written to.

[@jjaybeeze6077]

totally awesome man!

[@mahfoudhifatma6144]

Thank you john!

[@RobertD.Larrabee]

Thank you so much

[@shahil1867]

15:44 Star platinum (JoJo reference)

[@Rekalibrovka]

Hello sir! Thank you for great content! Please add a pop filter to your mic...

[@kindwords80]

Really really wonderful. Wish i can be your student directly.

[@teknixstuff]

12:10 Hashicorp makes terraform!

[@thebaldguy458]

I love this channel Great job 👍 👌

[@CQURB4]

John You need to update repository before installing programs. That easy fix

[@0xtaffy652]

Going to definetly be setting this up in the lab to mess around with

[@master_sam7227]

Cool! Say pls, what laptot you use?

[@Bloodzeus_]

would have been interesting to see the VT results of that exe, see what other vendors block

[@never_unsealed]

Windows Defender with cloud protection disabled is pretty useless. It won't even detect even basic malware techniques.

[@icebice]

Is it persistent? I noticed it hides in calc.exe in this case, what if the user would reboot :P?

[@romeliochirino2217]

what do you use for screen recording?

[@googleisbad]

Wow that looks amazing I wonder if windows 10 would catch it

[@C5pider]

For now it doesn't since it never saw an implant like this.

[@googleisbad]

@@C5pider quick question about how u made this: do you have to master all programming languages used and also its great your replying to all these comments what a legend.

[@C5pider]

@@googleisbad I do mater all programming languages. I just know C/C++ very well and golang

[@dazai6861]

i tried it on win 10 seems not working unfortunately

[@pppp9459]

John which laptop do you recommend for hacking?

[@cirklare]

Basically he made his undetectable metasploit

[@hoodietramp]

This really was a havoc🎸

[@saxa1]

You earned my sub ;)

[@MaryOliveira-xi7cg]

Why do my connections become unresponsive and I can't do anything with the connection?

[@n-i-n-o]

Why not with enabled cloud protection?

[@GenevieveTibona]

Thank but now is not work

[@PetritK10]

which C2 framework you use in your Job as Professional

[@johntoes1260]

This is interesting no lie

[@tigreonice2339]

Is the same on win 7 and win 8.1? Or they have better defense nowadays? XD

[@Chris-zc9bp]

I have same problem when trying to install golang on Kali

[@JamiuKehinde-yn7uz]

Plz how can I get the cookies and keyloaggers section from the client ?

[@sendlocation8476]

I’m new to all of this. Why does Linux and GitHub make it so nerdy to install something? Like you have to type so many commands? Why wouldn’t they just make a packet installer gui and just click and it install everything? Is this a Linux user thing where they make everything seem longer than expected? Sorry for my ignorance but someone like to make me understand…..

using this and never lagging

[@nilesh.mohekar]

Did you have to have calc.exe running already in order to inject the code?

[@ryanhoole4227]

I am not getting the payload to run, assuming the same for you.

[@ryanhoole4227]

Oh... I forgot I am also on ARM lol...

[@user-tt9lu5nw1p]

does this works on WAN? If yes, how to configure it?

[@novianindy887]

can you do meterpreter payload with that?

[@rizkysays]

How to bypass UAC Windows on victime machine with this C2?

[@IndiTechNexus]

ha...... John Hammond i am big fan for your video. i am see your video last 2 years. i am from India. john can create video from "how to use snyk and what is best scanner for find bug any web application

[@captainkatz1775]

HANDS UP GIVE ME THE KNOWLEDGE 🔫

[@kobebean9411]

but why not use kali linux there tool are bettter

[@likeastar20]

What is the MD5 of the exe?

[@teigeebean1257]

I have malware too. I'm isolated to a terminal without an operating system, but have full backdoor access to the attackers entire file system.

[@smartsalmon1]

What do you mean?

[@teigeebean1257]

I think it's an extension of chaos, and also takes advantage of a lower level process like ebpf for kernel communication. There's scripts for different archs (i386, x86_64, arm64) and a bunch of different operating systems. As well as lists of program signatures, and expired licenses that they've setup to bypass security checks etc.

[@teigeebean1257]

@@smartsalmon1 I'm inside a virtual interface of the attackers 'recovery mode' on my system... They have compromised my entire network, but now can't tell the difference between my shell and one of theres. So I've been able to poke around discretely.

[@smartsalmon1]

@@teigeebean1257 okay that's what I was confused on. And still am but it seems to just be beyond my knowledge base.

[@amhokies]

I'm almost certain this is entirely nonsense. This person has been watching too many "hacker" movies.

[@gamesstatusglerygames6864]

It really works Im shocked

[@underscore.]

havoc framework reminds me of the xposed framework lol

[@TuyenTran-qj9wg]

i cant install python 3.10 it said that: E: Unable to locate package python3.10 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.10' E: Unable to locate package python3.10-dev E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.10-dev' what can i do now :((

[@NoONE-bk7ud]

hey john, i'm a cybersecurity student and i learned how to use NMAP then i scan my home network then i found my SmartTv {LG} send traffic to 1111 port known as "lmsocialserver" so i searched in internet and i found that this port used by a Trojan virus that open a backdoor is this a bad boy or it's ok ?

[@obtuseguru7259]

yeah you are fucked, the chinese now have all your browsing history and porn. i recommend wiping all data selling the tv and start using only public wifi.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

Devices use all sorts of ports for comms, there’s nothing governing what ports and app/device uses. As for the name, that’s not guaranteed either, if you’re using the “official” names then someone submitted to name it as “standard”. Is it bad? Who knows, it depends on what the device does, you’ll have to dig in and see what the traffic is doing and research it more. Smart devices do all manner of wild, wacky and stupid stuff, doesn’t make it “bad”. Could be for device discovery, remote control, telemetry gathering, who knows.

[@NoONE-bk7ud]

@@c1ph3rpunk ty :)

[@Daniel2005D]

Thanks 4 ur video, this C2 not working to attack Linux Machines.

[@raymondfinkle4257]

Damn John. You losing weight? Lookin' slim.

[@kevinvandeford5562]

can I build this in Termux?

[@logiciananimal]

So, how much time until this is detected by Defender?

[@C5pider]

I give it a week or two. :P

[@seancantwell12]

Why yo hair look different?? What you do?? I like

[@JerryMichaels7]

It looks terraform like cuz it is! :)

[@C5pider]

terraform is using the HCL parser which is written in go. Yaotl is a "fork" of HCL with some small modifications but its basically the same as terraform.

[@infinix_6586]

IS THIS WORK OVER WAN...🤔

[@gooniesfan7911]

I had scanned the agent on virustotal now just incase some AV didnt detect it ! Doing my part to make security tools better

[@Sonyboj]

Defender is not fully on... it basically needs cloud protection and its also what is on by default. You are not testing real enviroment.

[@shakeemdixon8107]

Its getting blocked by defender now

[@RemainZStudio]

o dear johm.. john ... john... we know that windows is not fully running security, if you turn on Application Guard which is part of defender its going to check the .exe file and also what source it comes from which in your case is "UP DOG" defender knows what you up to it will not allow the .exe to save and run it, hey i know this is your bread and butter but.... please do it in a correct configured enviroment or say at least " this is a home setup and not a enterprise setup " don't BS people.... we all know this will not run

[@avnishprajapat2119]

Any videos on firewall and bypass methods?

[@gtdt5666]

Let's see what u got here:D

[@jebouijamel]

the whole tNice tutorialng but then you have a solid foundation.

[@georgehammond867]

this very dangerous framework

[@C5pider]

LMAO if you know how to use it

[@popeyehacks]

Heyyy John i have malware i don't know how to give that to u

[@CQURB4]

Zip it with password infected and upload that to google drive and share that.

[@cirklare]

I tried to do that and he didn't reply to my email

[@Theoldenmage]

@@cirklare he's probably busy at the moment, I'm sure he has hundreds of requests/emails to get at

[@castroonie]

@@CQURB4 would the email anti virus not get it?

[@CQURB4]

@@castroonie zip it using password "infected". It won't be detected by drive

[@TimkaSR]

Now getting detected as of now

[@h4gg497]

You tried editing sources.list as a non root user bro.

[@uditsaini5550]

it is still undetactable 😂😂😂

[@Landee]

18 yo ...

[@C5pider]

👀

[@Landee]

@@C5pider bro ur just insane 😳

[@C5pider]

@@Landee Not insane just had to much time lol. Get bored really fast in school lmao.

[@Landee]

@@C5pider lmaooo

[@cosmicrisis5699]

@@C5pider I’m curious when did you start learning? And what resources did you use cause it’s really impressive

[@murtazaahmed8336]

For the love of God people don't upload these payloads to Virus total like please don't, these undetectable payloads don't come by everyday and take a good while to develop don't let the creators work go to waste

[@guccixlouisvuittonsmartfridge]

too late 😹😹😹 im not tryin to get ratted

[@HyBlock]

these open source frameworks aren't supposed to be fully undetected forever, it's impossible since they are PUBLIC, you are asking for the impossible, plus they've not supposed to be used for illegal actions, don't be skids

[@C5pider]

Before I published Havoc I uploaded some samples to VT to help AV/EDRs vendors to detect my implants. Havoc isn't designed to evade. It is designed to be malleable and modular enough so operators with enough knowledge can bypass AV/EDRs. ☺️

[@damuffinman6895]

If you don't like it, take the time to learn to learn to make your own payloads.

[@lfcbpro]

please fix the right channel high end squeak ???

[@sp3ct3r71]

whats updog?

[@kobki66]

heey what's up my boy

[@sp3ct3r71]

@@kobki66 office reference in johns video .. here i am after 1 year..

[@girl4632]

Is there any WhatsApp group of cybersecurity professionals, practitioner,hacker kind of where could discuss.

[@CenterZero_DeadSecurity]

I can't resize the edit listener window 😭

[@jak365]

[@ompande1272]

Ay man

[@AndreiChrisso]

Hi nerd =))))

[@ATechGuy-mp6hn]

Windows defender is almost useless without cloud turned on if I remembered correctly

[@VECTORY_]

can i send you a virus i desperly tried to erase from my computer? its still on despite the many Factory resets my pc did go trough, it activates itself 1 time in 3 months and a simple reset to the last day solves it. but its still anoying, can i send it to you and you maybe figure out how i can be free from this thing? Information: (i think) a simple user control that always jumps to the first thing and locks onto it, like the desktop it locks the first file and you cant click anything else than that file, 450MB~ a single windows executable (exe) got it from trying to download a game, now trapped the file in my USB-Stick. would be nice if you would help/answer -Fellow beginning Hacker

[@VECTORY_]

i dont have whatsapp

[@minefox6071]

@@VECTORY_ well you just replied to a scummy bot

[@affieuk]

@@VECTORY_ That's a bot / scam, don't respond.

[@VECTORY_]

@@affieuk i dont have a phone either, so i cant

[@hamzarashid7579]

Hey john I recommended using Nala. Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. It`s most of the time fix these kind a errors. Search: Nala GitLab

[@navjotsingh5108]

does anyone know where i can get the pirated version of soft soft

[@scott32714keiser]

Why does windows not have any good virus proofing yet Linux got toram good luck infecting a operating that runs on a rom. I wish I can get windows on a rom with toram while storing files on internal drive so the internal drive can fail and I only loose my files not the operating system and to remove a virus all you need to do is wipe or replace the drive. Windows don't support roms even if you can get it on there correctly it needs to write to the drive just to boot. So windows gets a virus and your os you paid for is useless windows sucks. There's very few things I can't do on Linux that I can do on windows

[@lordvoldemort7692]

Linux is good , but most softwares on windows . so best solution to buy a pro anti malware

[@user-mc8xt1iq7c]

anti malware is a scam an and name one thing window has that matters that isnt avalabe on linux @@lordvoldemort7692

[@nnawaff]

i just hate apt it's pure trash

[@dnx3222]

Legend hammond

[@rageauto1291]

Shift + F10 Regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/Setup New key LabConfig New DWord 32 bit BypassRAMCheck (1) BypassTPMCheck (1) BypassSecureBootCheck(1) BypassCPUCheck(1) It works fine on a laptop from 2011. None of that other stuff seems to be needed. Laptop does run warmer so keep an eye on thermal limits. This is because processors are working harder to keep up but system is faster. However, Win 11 seems to have a big problem. Most need to be online to sign in. If you didnt set a local user and you dont have internet you are screwd and cant log into your pc. I was locked out for like 2 hours and starting thinking id have to format and reinstall windows. Luckily the router was the problem not the PC. The ol off and on trick fixed it. Should someome find a way to ransomware that you would have a very bad day. You wouldnt even need to do a lot if work. Windows does all the hard work for the attacker. Something like a script or app that could refreshes wifi repeatedly or switches it off as you switch it on on startup would do the trick. I have a very bad feeling about win 11 so much so that i have my win10 on standby ready to roll if 11 goes crazy. Its nice but i have concerns. Im stil useing it to get a proper feel for the system and give it a good try but its been off to a very bad start. .